[He didnt say], I want this kind of piece, I want strings or horns.
[Scott wanted me] to understand that Napoleon was a character and that he was an outsider.
And he wanted me to represent that in music, Phipps said.

He was a bit of a fighter.
So, we went with something simple, something almost like a gangsters-bang out level of tune.
We use trumpets and a simple waltz.
We got into his head a little bit.
Phipps also talked about how he tracked down a centuries-old piano that Napoleon previously owned for the score.
Check out the panel video above.