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does anyone else feel as though this track is out of some kinda ethnic (african or middle eastern) parade, it’s just so pounding
I do believe that a majority of the soundtrack was middle-eastern, at the request of Ang Lee. He hired Danny last-minute, and told him not to write a “Danny Elfman” score and go middle-eastern, which ended up being a good opportunity for him to write a different score from the norm.
definitely a great piece of work, which is remeniscent to his Red Dragon score in some parts – and he most likely Frankensteined some of Red Dragon’s melody; reversing the order to come up with Hulk. If you listen to the Red Dragon theme, it even shares the same tempo.
Speaking of which, if you listen to Planet of the Apes, his main theme seems to be a minor key version of “2001: A Space Oddessy,” with the last two notes turned DOWNWARD instead of 2001’s triumphant UPWARD pitch. You know what tune i’m talking about – the one every bodybuilder in American uses when he gets on stage and starts flexing ass…THAT tune. Oddly enough it’s the same tune used during the monkey sequence in 2001- now you know where he got his idea for the score. Unproven, of course, but pretty clever, of you ask me.The opening bars of “Also Sprach Zarathustra” by Richard Strauss is what you meant to say, right.
Nat
Hahahahahahahaha . . .
And thank you Nat, for being the first person I’ve seen to spell “Zarathustra” correctly.
I wouldn’t know…i’ve never sat through the entire movie, nor have i ever read the credits, or got into the older classics. Those things just aren’t terribly important to me…
pity.
Nat
Well, to each his own. My tastes are probobly more obtuse than yours, if not disturbing. The old classical music just sounds like screeching on a chalkboard.
my, that is disturbing
Then what does the music of SPK sound like to you?
Nat
“The old classical music just sounds like screeching on a chalkboard.”
the hell are you talking about
He’s been smoking a little too much of himself.
Man…read that post again. I’m not explaining myself.
Well, yeah, I guess I can relate to that somewhat. Some of the old classical stuff I hear over the radio is just annoying as hell. BUT, a lot of the stuff is really good. Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 (scherzo) is mindblowing, in my opinion.
I’m sure alot of it is very good.
They call all those guys Masters, even Elfman. Those are the ones who developed their craft and mastered them to their fullest. No composer alive today would not say that they didn’ t owe something to at least one of those guys.
The greatest thing now is Film Music is the new classical music since people who are into the Symphony mostly go as a status symbol (I used to work for the CSO).
You just have to find one that speaks to you like with scores. I may not be a fan of so and so’s scores but to someone else that is their defining artist whose music changed their lives. When I get into a new artist I immediately go to their influences and in the process you discover some really wonderful music. For instance listen to the Prelude to Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde and you will hear all the workings for Herrmann’s masterpiece Vertigo but I never would have been hip to checking out Wagner if I didn’t worship Herrmann’s sound. Right now I am lost on Nino Rota who I discovered from loving Elfman’s music.
The beauty of all art is that it is all a matter of interpretation. The important thing is to keep an open mind and some of the best things that you will find in this life are required tastes. If not you may really miss out on a lot of great things.exactly. Thank you.
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