Cool thread! I have a few of questions.

As a kid, I loved Beethoven's 5th and the Egmont Overture (cliche, I know lol) and thought they sounded like 'superman' or movie soundtrack music -- heroic, passionate, and full. Was a lot of movie soundtrack music modelled after this?

Does all of Claude Debussy's music sound alike, or it is just me?

Also, I've recently started listening to classical Indian music and it's been an interesting experience. I read that India's classical musical system stands on par in complexity and completeness with Western classical music. Do you have any ideas how the two musical systems are similiar and how they differ...in layperson's terms?