omorka | Anatomy of a Re-Score

First, a blog post, in which the composer of "Mind Heist" responds to "It's Our Fight," a section of the score for the third Bey Transformers movie, and the unmistakable similarities between the two songs.

Second, two YouTube videos comparing the two.

Third, a mashup of the two tunes.

My guess for what happened: the animators for T3 used "Mind Heist" as the temp track to the scene, lining up the big steel punches with the, well, the big brass punches, and showed it to Bey that way. He liked the effect so much that he insisted that the score composer reproduce it in the actual film score, and griped if it got too far away, plagiarism be damned, leading to a near-homage (and probably a certain amount of embarrassment for the composer). Those of you who have worken in Hollywood, any insight on whether that's a reasonable hypothesis?

Oh, and those long, deep low-brass punches? Here's the wake-up song used in Inception. Listen to the intro, before the voice comes in. Now, take those trumpet & trombone bounces and subject them to the time-dilation effects produced by dreaming in the movie, and what would you get? (Granted, the rhythm is different.) :-D So that's derivative, too, albeit for important plot reasons.