John Murphy

Those John Williams scores, they're full of leet motifs, which are recurring themes typically associated with a specific character, idea, or scenario.

John Murphy, a composer of films like Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.

3, he sees John Williams as embodying this approach to creating film music.

His quote was, "...in the 1960s there were a lot of people saying the leitmotif was going to die because that was when the songs started to appear in movies and it kind of screwed up thematic structure." But then we get into the 70s and John Williams arrives on the scene and he goes all the way back to the Golden Age and picks up where that left off before all these songs messed things up.