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I just recently watched the first spiderman, and was really taken with the music score. I had known that Danny did a lot of incidental music and scores for movies, but not quite so much as evidenced on this page.
I have always loved Boingo. I mean you just can’t get music like that anywhere else. Coming late to the party, but the spiderman 1 score makes me realize how fantastically talented Danny Elfman really is. The # of different themes in just the opening credits, the modulation, the originality, and his wonderful handling of orchestral instruments.
Danny does something rare as far as I’m concerned, and that is that he creates drama in his music without excessive dissonance (cf. Stravinsky or other modern composers). I also love that he utilizes french and english horns, which I love the sound of, versus the explosive sound of trumpets and trombones etc, which can easily become obnoxious when utilized excessively or poorly.
When our generation becomes the older generation, and the hoidy-toidies who run the classical stations now are gone, w/o a doubt Danny Elfman will be recognized for the incredible talent that he is.
Looking much forward to the upcoming S2 soundtrack.
P.S. The sheer volume of his work (and it’s originality) astounds me. Give me 10 more just like him, and music would never be boring again!
if u think spiderman is danny at his best then listen to his older scores for burton films, which are far superior because theyre much more melodic and interesting.
Again, I must disagree with elfmanfreak, but we’ve been discussing this for years now…
um…. no.
Tell us something we don’t know!
“um…. no.”
Huh?
I was talking to elfmanfreak and edward bloom.
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