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Just bought the DVD over here, and I wanted to know who else has it and what everyone thinks of it.
Although there is not a Danny Elfman featurette, he does appear in the featurette about Tim Burton’s directing. He doesn’t talk though, which raises the question, did he just plain decline to speak on the DVD? They just showed him in the recording studio talking to Tim Burton, and that’s it. He does appear frequently in the quiz feature of the DVD, so that was nice. Overall the DVD is very nice. Cool features that really explain the process of making the movie. The menu screen is really cool, too. It’s a good buy.
And for those who wanted some of Elfman’s Circus music, there is a small selection of it on the Special Features menu screen.
Great movie! (saw it 3 times in the theater) Great DVD! And I really enjoyed the Burton commentary (where he did speak about Elfman contribution, but only for a moment).
Nat
I suspect that Columbia will roll out a more feature-packed version of the DVD sometime in the future. Witness the three DVD set of PANIC ROOM!
Ryan
“Big Fish” is one of the finest American films ever made, bar none. Maybe the reason is that it has so many distinct European sensibilities (the dance in Spectre, the circus, the structure of the story, and especially the ending are all reminiscent in feel to the films of Italian director Federico Fellini). But unlike Fellini, Burton relies on a kind of lovely daydream surrealism. I saw the film twice in the theater and cried both times, though at different parts. The first time I cried during the ending, the second time I cried during the “when times stops” part. My viewing tonight was just as magnificent as my previous viewings, and once again I cried. This time it was during the daffodils scene. Danny Elfman’s score is simply one of his best, and it was great to hear all of his unreleased cues a third time. The film looks great; the occassional fog-like appearence of some shots was reminiscent of Hitchcock’s Vertigo (which was achieved with a fog filter, not sure what Phillipe Rousselot used), and along with the sets, perfectly captures Burton’s beautiful daydream-fantasy, as I refer to it as.
The DVD transfer is stunning, and the picture quality is magnificent, much better than I remember it being in the theater (the colors literally jump out and hug you, in the theater I don’t remember the colors being that vivid). The DVD extras are nice, I’ve only watched the Burton-Director section (which has, as others have mentioned, a few precious glimpses of our beloved Danny Elfman) and the circus featurette, as well as the Trivia Quiz featurette, I look forward to exploring the rest of the extras, and I also look forward to my 4th, 5th, and 50th times watching this film.
Dylan
Check out the Tim Burton commentary for info from him. Usually, when a DVD has a featurette or two that has interviews with the director and a commentary feature, it featurette was probably supposed to be promotional footage or for a documentary (i.e., Sleepy Hollow). He probably didn’t want to reiterate himself on the made-for-DVD featurette, and wanted to save info for the commentary on big fish.
the Timmy B. commentary may even include some info on Elfman…. (I don’t know yet, I just got it today).I also wanted to point out something. In the Previews section of the DVD, watch the preview for the Big Fish soundtrack. It says that it features music from “Grammy Award-winning composer Danny Elfman.” Someone needs to get their facts straight, unless he won a Grammy that I’m not aware of.
He won his grammy for Batman.
Nat
Aparrently he didn’t win that year, according to IMDb. The score for The Fabulous Baker Boys by Dave Grusin won that year, it says. Is it wrong?
Of course it’s wrong! Whats new.
“Aparrently he didn’t win that year, according to IMDb.”
That’s true. Danny Elfman received his award in 1990.
My girlfriend got me the Big Fish DVD for my birthday yesterday. With the exception of the lack of Danny Elfman commentary or isolated score (which I honestly wasn’t expecting too much), it’s a fantastic DVD. I highly recommend it to anyonw who has doubts.
WOW!!! I went to the official Grammy website, and I guess there was a separate award for an isolated theme in 1989, because Danny Elfman’s Batman theme won. I feel ashamed to be an Elfman fan and I didn’t know he won the Grammy! Curse that IMDb!
Wait, what did IMDB do wrong, again?
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