It wasn't Williams's job, then, to break new aesthetic ground. Juilliard-trained, he'd worked with such legends as Bernard Herrmann and won two Academy Awards-including one for his still-iconic score for Steven Spielberg's Jaws, the movie that's credited for establishing the still-booming genre of the summer blockbuster. In his mid-40s, Williams was already an experienced film composer. Part and parcel of Lucas's approach was to commission a grand symphonic score, rather than an experimental electronic soundtrack. One of the reasons Star Wars made such an impact was that in a decade marked by stark, intellectually ambitious science fiction films-including George Lucas's own THX-1138 (1971)- Star Wars was a shamelessly sweeping throwback to space operas in the Buck Rogers mode.
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