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James Roy Horner (August 14, 1953–June 22, 2015) was an American film composer and conductor. He worked on more than 160 film and television productions between 1978 and 2015. He was known for the integration of choral and electronic elements alongside traditional orchestrations and for his use of motifs associated with Celtic music. Horner won two Academy Awards for his musical composition to James Cameron's Titanic (1997), which became the best-selling orchestral film soundtrack of all time. He also wrote the score for the highest-grossing film of all time, Cameron's Avatar (2009). Horner's other Oscar-nominated scores were for Aliens (1986), An American Tail (1986), Field of Dreams (1989), Apollo 13 (1995), Braveheart (1995), A Beautiful Mind (2001), and House of Sand and Fog (2003). Horner's other notable scores include Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), Willow (1988), The Land Before Time (1988), Glory (1989), The Rocketeer (1991), Legends of the Fall (1994), Jumanji (1995), Casper (1995), Balto (1995), The Mask of Zorro (1998), Deep Impact (1998), The Perfect Storm (2000), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), Troy (2004), The New World (2005), The Legend of Zorro (2005), Apocalypto (2006), The Karate Kid (2010), and The Amazing Spider-Man (2012). Horner collaborated on multiple projects with directors including James Cameron, Don Bluth, Ron Howard, Joe Johnston, Edward Zwick, Walter Hill, Mel Gibson, Vadim Perelman, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Nicholas Meyer, Wolfgang Petersen, Martin Campbell, Phil Nibbelink, and Simon Wells; producers including Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, David Kirschner, Brian Grazer, Jon Landau, and Lawrence Gordon; and songwriters including Will Jennings, Barry Mann, and Cynthia Weil. Adding to his two Academy Awards wins, Horner also won six Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes, and was nominated for three BAFTA Awards. Horner, who was an avid pilot, was killed in a single-fatality crash while flying his Short Tucano turboprop aircraft. He was 61 years old. The scores for his final three films, Southpaw (2015), The 33 (2015), and The Magnificent Seven (2016), were all completed and released posthumously. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Horner, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
As the daughter of Commissioner James Gordon, Barbara Gordon has always felt the need to help people and defend the law. She saw her role model in the mysterious warrior for justice in Batman. That's why, at a young age, she made her own costume with the bat symbol, and thanks to her gymnastic skills and intelligence, she was soon noticed by the Dark Knight, who took her under her wing, and so Batgirl was born. Batman, Robin and Batgirl suddenly became a trio of crime fighters in Gotham City. Barbara soon fell in love with Dick Grayson and a serious relationship arose between them. But a little later, Batman's worst enemy, the Joker, escaped from Arkham Asylum. He soon began to bully the whole city, but his goal was to hurt Batman as much as possible. One day, home at the door Barbara's, a bell rang. She went to open the door, and in shocked to see the Joker pointing his weapon at her. He immediately shoots her and leaves her to her fate. Barbara has to deal with the consequences of her injury and again find strength for her struggle. This is primarily to be helped by surgical operation to restore her ability to walk. At the same time, a young girl Stephanie Brown, appears in the streets of Gotham City, who, like Barbara, longs to fight injustice and thus creates her own secret identity under the name Spoiler. Batman and Robin meanwhile are trying to defeat the Joker and his allies again. Everything heading to the moment when the destinies of all are inevitably connected.
