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The DVD came out today. Does anyone know if there’s any Elfman material on the disc?
Also, Black Christmas was released as well. It was Shirley Walker’s last score. Is there anything featured for her?
I did a quick search and it doesn’t appear as if there are any score-specific features on the DVD though there is a general behind-the-scenes type featurette that could feature a minute or two on the score.
DEEP SEA 3D came out on DVD last week and it features Elfman’s name on the cover art!
Ryan
No Elfman in the general making-of featurette either, just too much praise for that creepy little Dakota Fanning. I’ll try to listen to the commentaries for music comments before I send the DVD back.
Elfman’s name was also prominently featured on the cover of the “Big Fish” DVD. He might be the only film composer to be honored in this way.
I just got the Deep Sea (2D?) DVD, and it’s great – mostly because I saw the original IMAX film way before listening to Serenada Schizophrana as a whole, so only now I was able to compare the way the piece was adjusted to the film. It’s very interesting to see familiar motives often thoroughly rearranged, while some remained exactly the same.
I wish they had isolated score on this one as well. Ah, well.He does get mentioned a lot on videos for his films. Even my old FRIGHTNERS VHS has “…and boasting music by Danny Elfman.” So yeah, it’s cool to see one of your faves be singled out like that.
Yeah, I feel like she’s going to eat our souls. Anyway, I just listened to the Gary Winick commentary, and there were about 6 or so mentions of Danny, several of which were just things like, “the choir here is really nice,” but there was also some more detailed comments, some blatantly obvious and some at least a bit enlightening:
On the opening titles: “Danny Elfman, the composer, came up with this brilliant idea for the opening, which was to start the music over the logos. By doing this, we were able to unify the logos and seamlessly get into the beginning of the film. We also could give an energy to the opening that we couldn’t if we started the music over the credits because we would have to settle into the narration.”
On the lullaby: “Danny Elfman wrote a lullaby before the film started, an the idea was that Fern’s mom used to sing it to Fern, Fern sings it to Wilbur, and Charlotte sings it to Wilbur at the end of the film, and it turns out we just used it for Fern singing to Wilbur.”
On the end titles and “Ordinary Miracle”: “Paramount wanted a pop song to end the film, and I really didn’t feel like that was right for ‘Charlotte’s Web.’ So I called Danny Elfman to talk about it and he suggested that I let it go, to just see what they’d come up with… I was really shocked when I heard it that they came up with something that embodied the spirit of the film. I just didn’t think that those two could go together, and it worked out really well.
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