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wot a great film edward scissorhands is but the soundtrack has got me crying like a baby several times.All danny’s work hits a spot with me.What i wanna know is why u arent working with Tim Burton any more.anybody with an answer e-mail me please andrewwright1987@hotmail.com.chears!!!!!!
wha? who’s not working with tim burton anymore? you mean danny? he came back for mars attacks! who’re you talking about?
lexi: so very very confused..
The only one Elfman missed on was Ed Wood. Wake up, Andy! Life is better than you think!
Keep up with the programme! LOL! (Only joking!)
now now now, obviously this poor thing is a little confused and we only make it worse by taunting him. now dear, in 1995 danny elfman DID score ‘mars attacks!’ yes. this was a tim burton film, correct? now, in 1998, another burton film called ‘sleepy hollow’ came out also scored by elfman. another deal was cut giving poor mr. burton the opportunity to remake planet of the apes. a horrible film, accompanied by beautiful music also written by our mr. elfman. that is two films. also, Tim Burton’s short shockwave toons about Stain Boy were scored by elfman. so, whatever you read was incorrect or at least needed to be updated.
lexi: oh my god! ryan keaveney and michael lewis are the same person?? what kind of sick joke is this? ryan, your alter ego is your horner lovin’ troublemaker side! confesssssss!
“Black Beauty – Main Titles”
“Novacaine – Main Titles”
“Sleepy Hollow – End Credits”
“The Nightmare Before Christmas – Jack’s Lament”
all of these and many, many more get me crying like a baby! So there.-Em
[insert witty comment here… I’m saving mine up, you know, ‘cos I didn’t do so good with ’em today.]Hey, Em, glad to know there’s somebody else out there who cries like a snotty-nosed 3-year-old during the sentimental stuff (Incidentally, there’s a violin cue in track 3 of Black Beauty that gets me EVERY TIME…I have to skip that track until I’m all by myself…)
-Erika (I may be snotty, but I’m 5 – not 3 – you darn “mental profilers!”)
LOL! I KNOW those tracks are beautiful, but how in the WORLD do you mannage to CRY over them?! I’ll never understand.
‘Cause you’re not female, silly! No, seriously, I’m sure men cry over them, too. I don’t really know why I cry over them…it’s not even sentimental attachment…ah, I won’t bother with a pseudo-explanation that doesn’t make any sense.
-E (who, besides Elfman scores, also become emotional when the grocery store runs out of brown sugar and coffee)
Don’t feel bad, or try to explain it Erika, for I guy I gush too much. It is real embarrassing sometimes. I try to act like a movie doesn’t effect me, but I’m just a sucker. Just play me the end of Mahler’s 10th and by the end of the 4th movement I’m gone to golden pond. I even cried in Jurassic Park when Grant first sees that Brachiosaurus. Most of the time it is not just the movie itself but that manipulative music that I so love. I just dare you to make me watch Edward Scissorhands and keep me from crying. That may be why I like to watch movies alone, well that and the fact that being a gNat I generally bug people.
Nat who just started to tear up watching a shampoo commercial.
I haven’t cried during a score, but I’m not a crying person. what bothers me is my best friend’s denial. we were watching edward scissorhands, (bwahahaha my own idea because she won’t let me listen to boingo in her presence. erg!) and she starts crying when vincent price dies. I ask her why she’s crying, and she says she doesn’t know why she always cries at that part. oh she knows why.. she just won’t tell ME. she shall hate elfman in her head but he’s already infected her heart.. she also loves the Floop Song, yay!
I cried this one time during We CLose Our Eyes and couldn’t listen to it for a long time. see, I had just finished watching the Farewell for the first time and suddenly just HAD to listen to it. (the keyword is HAD, for the infection is growing stronger..) the whole boingo album depressed me, too. I also fell in love with someone for about 3 minutes because I was listening to Ed Scissorhands at the time. damn him! damn him to hell!
lexi: “it’s a cruel cruel world all you little boys and girls and some mean nasty people want to have you for their supper, but if you follow me you can all be free! free! you can all be as a bird on a big TV if you dream if you dream if you dream.. my dream!..” oh there’s more.. but I’m lazy.
Erika — I never saw the movie ‘Black Beauty.’ So, when I listen to the soundtrack, I associate the music to the book. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell is one of the most beautiful books ever written — and it’s not just the kind of thing a female could cry over. To think about this animal abuse, you think, ‘well if that was me…’ being raised as a champion, being sold, and then being beaten until your final years. Then you see your best friends die painfully, what kind of life is that? But to my original point, I finished Black Beauty right before drifting off to sleep. The last part, for those of you who haven’t read the book, says something like so:
“And now I sit under the tree at my new home in the meadow and imagine my old friends Ginger and MerryLegs sitting next to me.” When I read that, a clear picture of an old horse sitting under a tree imagining his old friends came to mind. I cried the whole night over that book. So to end this thesus; whenever I hear the Main Titles to Black Beauty, I think of that ending, and all the other sad/happy things in the world.
‘Main Titles’ of ‘Novacaine’ — I’m in the process of writing a new “tale” called “Junges and Schilf.” The only thing I listen to while writing this is the main titles of Novacaine and the main titles of Black Beauty. There was one part of the story where the main character, Johann Schmeiden, had a dream. It started out wonderfully, in a nice German villa with his wife, but then suddenly the music thrashed horribly and somehow he was facing three corpses on the floor of his kitchen. One was his wife, Rozalja Filomena Hefner, and the other two were two men he had never seen before. (He later meets those men, and finds they are his potential murderers. Whoops! Gave that away.) The Main titles to Novacaine may start off high-tech, but as the strings soar in, it just gives me this strong feeling: depressed, melancholy, ANGRY. This is what you feel when your wife is murdered, right? Right. So therefore ending why I sometimes cry over this, normally unlikely, montage.
‘End Credits’ of ‘Sleepy Hollow’ — part 1:28 through 1:48. A twenty second piece. But DUH, of course it gets me crying, it’s the MOST BEAUTIFUL THING I’VE EVER HEARD IN MAH LIFE… I’d rather not get into explaining this one. It’d take waaay too long. But I kind of owe it to two people who exist only in my mind, Wilhelm von Buren and Adaline Hawke, who undoubtfully like to waltz a lot
‘Jack’s Lament’ of ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ — hmm… this kind of explains my look of… stuff. Every day is the same, I only wish for something mo-OOORE!im Sande verlaufen!
-Em
“Are you straight?”
“I’m straight.”
“How straight?”
“Damn straight!”
-Totiro and MeI cry when the clarinet starts playing during the last few seconds of “Driving Miss Daisy,” as Hoke is feeding Miss Daisy her pie. Something quite touching about the delicate melodic line that runs through that last moment. Okay, it’s not Elfman, but my point is that men do cry now and then over music and sentimental stuff.
I cried when I first saw the ending of Artificial Intelligence… sobbed to be exact =þ
Another movie I always cry at (because of the film score, coupled with some really wonderful acting) is “Fried Green Tomatoes.” When Ruth dies…I normally don’t cry when *people* die (just animals – heartless, isn’t it?), but that is one of my weepier moments…
Natroc of the Mississippi Insect Clan – classical music gets you too, eh? Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto #3 gets me (that one doesn’t even make sense as to why I’d cry…), as well as “Watchman of the Night” by Mark Camphouse. There was a Bach chorale that my college wind ensemble director arranged for our group that got me darn near hysterics as well. By the end of that, we were all sobbing – partly because we were “in the zone,” (moments like that are comparatively rare…but, oh man, when they hit, your world comes crashing down around your feet, and all you’ve got left is the music and the rest of the group…again, another thing I can’t explain), but mostly because it was the last piece on his last concert with our band. (He got fired on a ridiculous, trumped-up charge…completely falsified, and yeah, I’m bitter. I’m one of those people who worships her college band director, and am not afraid to admit it!)
To all of you weepy, overly emotional males (just kidding!) – hey, I think good music and films strike an emotional chord in all of us; there’s nothing wrong with crying. As a person who doesn’t cry very much at all, and when I do, it’s because of music and/or movies (never personal issues…just can’t get overly emotional about those), I respect the fact that people can be moved to tears by great art. If it’s acceptable to cry at a funeral, why isn’t that the case during emotional movies (or even movies with very emotional scores)? Ah well, the highly-touted concept of male machisimo isn’t one that I’m going to understand soon…
-Erika (of the oatmeal-is-a-great-comfort-food clan)
Wait wait wait…
“I cried when I first saw the ending of Artificial Intelligence… sobbed to be exact”
Or did you mean “I cried when I saw the FIRST ending…” I’m afraid I have nothing but complaint for the way AI wrapped up. I was too busy having a hypothetical lecture with Mr. Spielburg–I didn’t have time to cry.
I didn’t find out until months later that those THINGS at the end were not supposed to be aliens but rather hyper-superior Mechas, a point which was NOT made clear in the film and caused utter confusion.
The film would have closed most gracefully, albeit decidedly bittersweet, 20 minutes earlier as the camera pulled back from the underwater vehicle while the little boy spent the rest of his battery-operated life waiting for the blue fairy to answer.
Okay, that’s my soapbox. I’ll leave now.
Deep Impact really gets me!
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