Wagner was a theatrical innovator as well. He was the first person to turn down the lights in a theatre when the production started in order to create a better atmosphere. His operas are composed as musical wholes, rather than being divided into aria and recitative. This continuous flow commenting on the action is a precursor of the film score. His music has been used in many films and television shows: the Ride of the Valkyries from the Ring in Apocalypse Now; the end of Tristan in Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo+Juliet; the opening of Das Rheingold in Terrence Malick’s The New World; an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm is based around the Siegfried Idyll – and who could forget Charlie Chaplin as the Great Dictator dancing with a globe to the Lohengrin prelude? John Williams clearly took much from Wagner when he scored Star Wars – another epic battle between good and evil.