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  • #35571
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    Hi I am 13 years old and I have loved Danny Elfman for quite some time now. I have most, if not all of his albums ( Including Oingo Boingo ). I am also a huge fan of Tim Burton and all of his work.

    Anyways, In the past month I have been perticularly interested in one film in which Danny Elfman made the score:
    Dick Tracy.
    I don’t think people gave enough credit to the music, let alone the movie. I listened to the track “Crime Spree” over and over. I wonder why they took that out of the movie? Does anyone know? Am I crazy thinking Dick Tracy has a good score?

    #41524
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    DICK TRACY is a good score. Unfortunately I think it has the bad fortune of being written for a film nobody loves and that is, quite frankly, boring.

    Ryan

    #41526
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    Umm, I love Dick Tracy the movie, and it’s anything but boring in my opinion. Roger Ebert also loves it. The set design alone is fantastic.

    #41528
    Anonymous
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    the bombastic main titles alone echo batman and flash.

    #41531
    Anonymous
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    Boring?? Friends of mine also called it “plotless.” I just don’t understand. I very much enjoy watching that movie. The only parts I could call boring are the montages where Madonna is singing and Mandy Patinkin is playing the piano. Otherwise, I found it fascinating viewing, from an entertainment standpoint and in studying the production design. What fun.

    And, of course, it was fascinating to listen to the music. :-)

    It’s time to re-release the Elfman score so I can buy it on CD. (It came out when I was still a cassette person.)

    #41533
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    It’s really kinda odd to think that Warren Beatty was sitting there banging Madonna, and then he gets this idea for a really cool movie to showcase his new girlfriend with, so he draws from Tim Burton’s artistry and creates Dick Tracy, and while he’s at it, gives Elfman a hard time throughout the whole thing (or so i heard). A true businessman if there ever was one.

    #41538
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    the love theme was repeated too much.

    #41541
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    I didn’t have any problem with the music. The only problem I had with the movie was that the idiots sitting behind me felt it necessary to discuss spoilers before the movie started. I thought it was great visually. Different from Burton’s visual appeal, of course, but just as strong as Burton’s.

    #41543
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    I love that movie…although the score’s good, it’s certainly not Elfman’s best…however, the visuals are simply stunning. That was the movie in which I found my dream car (the car that Flattop rode in while attempting to gun Tracy down…1933 Ford Roadster…banana yellow…running boards and a cut-down top…it will be mine, oh yes, it will be mine!)…I’ll always love it, if only for that reason. Hm…I’m going to go watch that now…

    #41545
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    Damn…i woulda just picked a Black Ford Mustang with a HUGE freaking spear attached to the roof…but that’s just me.

    #41547
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    the score is so obviously elfman that I have to watch the film repeatedly. the brassy stuff gets me every time. I don’t own the soundtrck for fear that it contains all that annoying madonna.. stuff.. ::shiver:: the visual style of the movie is stunning enough. the fake moons.. the color scheme.. oh and the little red child.. definately a, uh.. swell movie.

    lexi: one in a million

    #41565
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    LOL!!! “Huge freaking spear…?” That’s the best thing I’ve heard all day!

    #41570
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    heh..i just caught Dick Tracy (we used to call it Cock Tracy if it was gonna go to porn) on HBO and it wasn’t the same as when i’d first seen it. i almost forgot that Pacino was in this movie, screaming away as usual. The only thing that really stuck in my head about that flick was when they tie him up in the basement and one of them starts runnning out saying “30 seconds, no more Dick!” now that the public is into toilet humor, it sounds funny as hell to me.
    And the spear idea is actually second to having two machine gun mounts pointing to people’s tires, so if they get incessantly ASSY (my word) with driving i can just knock out their tires, thus ending the entire Road Rage mentality. Man, call the patent office…i have a new invention. (Actually, all those car combat games are to thank for that idea…i can’t wait til this world turns into a scene from the Road Warrior…i can’t wait to be eating dog food out of a can, wearing black leather and taking long walks after ditching my car due to the lack of gas)

    #41572
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    Dobbs, if you’re actually looking FORWARD to a future like that, you have issues.

    :-D

    #41574
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    I tend to see Dick Tracy as an American version of James Bond. (Wallther (sp?) PPKs? Hell no, why carry that thing around when you can have a Tommy gun! Hm…maybe the origin of the phrase “bigger is better?”) Haha…if they made a “Dick Tracy-inspired” Bond movie, we’d have to listen to exclamations of “Oh, Dick!” instead of “Oh, James!” Man, and I thought the Brits were into toilet humor ;)

    #41579
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    Well, the Brits sure aren’t very good at emoting, so you’d expect them to excel is other areas..haahhaa.

    Eventually, Brian, wether or not i’m still alive, the future will probobly be like that to a greater or lesser degree because we’re a dangerous breed. Only those Mel Gibson types won’t be so friendly when they’ve spent a week or two starving. Come to think of it, i thikn this kind of thing does exist — just not in this country. Actually i just love the desert, so i don’t know if that constitutes an issue, but if it does, then call the shrink, dude!

    #41581
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    All this talk over Dick Tracy has made me pull out my copy and give it a good listen. The biggest thing that has hit me was how “simple” it was. Simple melodies have always, and continue to be, an Elfman staple, but every thing on this score is translucent. The harmonies are straightforward and the instrumentation is horizontal. I knew that Danny started to think more vertical with Deloris Claiborne, but I had forgotten how much his style has progressed since the early days.

    Great look back at the ape. :-)

    Name is Murphy, Nat Murphy private Dick

    #41584
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    hmmm.. does anyone know if it’s that easy to hang onto the back of a car’s spare tire? especially during those car chase.. shoulder pads are scary.. this is all I got out of the movie.

    lexi: stunaep erom on

    #41587
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    I love Dick Tracy as well: designed and photographed superbly, nicely paced, obviously great music; really funny too…

    Flat-top rules!!!

    #41589
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    WOW! I can’t beleive how many people replied to my topic. Thanks alot guys. You made my day!

    And hey Dobbs, you think the road warrior future will be cool, just wait until Back to the Future becomes reality in 2015. Hoverboards baby!

    #41590
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    WOW! I can’t beleive how many people replied to my topic. Thanks alot guys. You made my day!

    And hey Dobbs, you think the road warrior future will be cool, just wait until Back to the Future becomes reality in 2015. Hoverboards baby!

    #41591
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    WOW! I can’t beleive how many people replied to my topic. Thanks alot guys. You made my day!

    And hey Dobbs, you think the road warrior future will be cool, just wait until Back to the Future becomes reality in 2015. Hoverboards baby!

    #41592
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    WOW! I can’t beleive how many people replied to my topic. Thanks alot guys. You made my day!

    And hey Dobbs, you think the road warrior future will be cool, just wait until Back to the Future becomes reality in 2015. Hoverboards baby!

    #41595
    Anonymous
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    gee, sirk got so excited, he posted the same thing 4 times! okay okay okay okay! hoverboards will be cool. anyways, um, dick tracy..

    lexi: “don’t worry about her. she’s still upset because somebody dropped a house on her sister.” –glen shadix in ‘beetjuice’

    #41597
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    dude, i’d say hoverboards would be a cool thing. But if you ask me, these corporate hamsters will most likely be dry humping the oil industry until it chaffs and bleeds the economy dry. I mean, think about it- – we could be avoiding war right now with the new electrical and solar powered cars they invented a while back. They’re hording all the technology like the gerbils they are until our gasoline gets depleted and is no longer an asset. That’s the back story to “Back to the Future” Zemeckis never told anyone. He shoulda made a sequel entitled “Delaying the Future.” Personally, i see us all going to hell in a hand basket, but only because of the oil and it’s relation to the Middle East.
    But yeah, hoverboards would be cool. Hell, those new, little two-wheeled scooters they brought out are cool…
    Im still waiting for those damn flying cars we’ve been promised.

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