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Fron Scoremagacine’s interview with Chris Young:
SM: The other one is “Spiderman 2”, where your style is clearly evident in the Dr. Octopus´s creation scene, with a theme that reminds us of “Hellraiser II” which, as far as we know, was there as temp track. Any comments about your experience in this movie?
CY: My experience on this movie was absolutely fabulous, of course! I got “Spiderman 3” (laughs). I am so lucky that Danny had a falling out with Sam Raimi!. His disaster turned into my gift! His hell, my heaven!. So yes, indeed, I was brought in because Sam loves the “Hellbound” score and they put that in the Dr. Octopus´s and he says: “Chris, listen to this! Get it made. That’s what I want. Danny won´t do it. You wrote it, you do it!”. And I said: “Sure, great!”. (laughs) So I imitated that and he was extremely happy. You know, you have to do these things, right?.
http://scoremagacine.com/Entrevistas_eng_det.php?Codigo=31
Ryan
Spider-Fan Wrote:
> He sounds like a bit of an arrogant douchebag
> there, doesn’t he?Not necessarily. He could have said it with a wink in his eye and a slight sense of irony. Hard to tell.
I agree that it’s hard to tell, from a dry, written text. I wouldn’t jump to conclusions. If he doesn’t have a problem with a commission that’s based on plagiarism (or self-plagiarism), and is happy to have the job, good for him. *shrug* It’s not like he blasts Elfman, although it might be a bit ironic towards him (as if not agreeing to plagiarise equals being a fussy primadonna-of-a-composer. Which is not true.)
It’s always true, though, that in any professional world others will take up the tasks you wouldn’t touch with a sharpened end of a long stick, wearing gloves. It’s just the way professional life is, I guess – there is always someone who’ll do something you wouldn’t (especially in Hollywood
).Having said all that, I’m glad Elfman tries to maintain a certain professional level, as any composer this accomplished should – if more people measured up to that, maybe some of the problems plaguing the music business would be less acute – like, you can’t just call somebody up to copy something note for note. Well, not for a movie… car commercials are a different business…er… I guess. ;-]
Not necessarily. He could have said it with a wink in his eye and a slight sense of irony. Hard to tell.
Or maybe he didn’t say anything at all.
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