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RED DRAGON:
Well, It’s been a fairly overly hyped score. I’m glad that the wait is amost over and I’m thrilled to say that most of the dreaded hype was fairly correct [from what I’ve heard, the score’s, for the most part, thematic and reminiscent of Dolores Claiborne and/or Silence of the Lambs]. BUT Why was everybody so anxious about THIS score as opposed to Spider-Man or Men In Black 2 (at least on the BOARDS here). Perhaps it’s because it’s a genre that ELFMAN isn’t really common to anymore or perhaps it was because everybody wanted to hear him musically personify HANNIBAL LECTER. I don’t think I’m alone when I say that We all DO feel Elfman was born to write a score like this to a character like this.So what will we all do when this finally comes out? Elfman said himself that he was taking a break after this. Will be be settling down as well?
It doesn’t really matter…
All I can tell you, though, is that I’m getting first in line tommorrow to BUY that CD.
Oh yeah…
ps: It’s been confirmed that Composer LALO SCHIFFRIN (The Mission: Impossible Theme) has a cameo at the beginning of the film as a conducter to the BOSTON POPS orchestra. In his scene a flautist messes his music up and then Lecter kills him off screen. I’m not going to say anything yet, but I’ve asked a few people who went to the screenings in New York if they felt that anything was up and they’ve told me that the character of the flautist, Benjamin Raspail, does look very much like a certain little RED HAIRED friend of ours.
– Peace
“BUT Why was everybody so anxious about THIS score as opposed to Spider-Man”
Hmmm. You must’ve been away during that time of hype for the Spiderman score. There was actually more hype for that score than Red Dragon, I think. MIIB didn’t get as much hype, though.
If this is Elfman’s last gig for a long spell, then i’ll buy it, but to be honest, this one doesn’t grab me as much as the last two did.
The interesting thing is that LALO SCHIFFRIN is Bret Ratner’s “other” composer (for the 2 Rush Hour movies). Just some FYI
Nat
ooo red dragon! I have got to get it! i doub there will be a line though. then again, someone DID snag POTAs off the shelf before me..
in addition, the boingo millenium collection is out, if you care to waste some money. the only way i may buy it is if it has good pictures inside. also, “new” boingo is always fun.. even if it’s not.. nevermind.
lexi: oh my gosh! the flutist! they mentioned him in hannibal! yeah! the girl who was supposed to be clarece starling says he killed him to pay a service to the orchestra! ee! allusion! I’ll be quiet now.
Hhhmmm . . . Elfman as a flutist?? I think I remember discussing this before, but while I can’t see him as a flutist, I like it better than a *shudder* clarinetist. All the clarinetists I know (of any age or level of experience) are either brain-dead sheep or kooky, hyperactive nutcases with odd senses of humor.
I still think he should have been a contrabassoonist, not just because of my love for the instrument, but as far as I know, the personality thing works better. Plus, it would be good for audiences to see something other than the well-known crap like flutes, clarinets, violins, trumpets . . . gag me.
Well, I plan to see the movie whether Danny gets eaten or not. All the better if it includes a quick peek of him though.
The “new” boingo thing… anyone get it? I was also wondering, DOES it have any new/rare photos. Like Lexi, that is the only thing that could even make me *think* of buying it. Even then, I’d be happy with some scans. Preferably scans better than 72 dpi.
Grrr…I went into Best Buy today and asked oh-so-sweetly if they had Dragon in stock…they did, but the bastards won’t sell it to me until TOMMOROW!!!! *I hate chain stores, but they’re a necessary evil when it comes to Elfman scores…at least, where I live they are…but that’s the ONLY thing I buy from chain stores, and I feel guilty as all get out for it*. Really, though, I am simply dying for this score. The snippets I heard were simply glorious. The movie-theme itself (the making of a cannibal/psychopath) I’m not too hot on. (I’m not a big gore person when it comes to movies…why I like Sleepy Hollow, I have NO idea…).
As far as why I am so excited for this particular score: it’s something other than flat-out action scores. It’s less campy and funky, and more brooding and dark…just my style, kids. I guess these types of scores resonate well with me because they parallel my own personality. I’m not an overly depressed, morose person, and I can CERTAINLY be bizarre (you’ve all been witness to that more than you’d probably like to admit, with my cartoon rantings and such), but I’m certainly not “bubbly” or “cheerful.” I’ve been described as rather quiet, yet “eccentric,” by my former profs. I find true melancholy (not depression, but melancholy – there’s a big difference) simply beautiful. I guess that’s why the melancholy, brooding scores knock me out. That’s all I got…back to the grindstone.
-E (who’s itchin’ to get her hands on the Red Dragon score tommorow at 8 a.m.)
well, i wish i was going to salzers (my local music store) today. i DO want this score. it reminds me of what i’ve already come to call “the old elfman.” the poor guy. seventeen years and he already has a genre like that. it’s like this year they were kinda.. blah. but now we’ve got something that reminds me why i can’t stop listening to POTA and why my next goal is Sleepy Hollow. (which has been pushed down temporarily for my insta-gratification taste for Red Dragon.)
“I’ve been described as rather quiet, yet “eccentric,””
aw. i always wanted to be quiet. but i can’t help it, i’m usually described as “talkative” before “insane.” you see, i’m most happy and talkative when we talk about the strangest things.. and don’t get me started on people’s unkowing boingo allusions. i may stay quiet, but i usually start giggling, growling, depends on the song. i guess i’m “insane” because no one knows what to make of me. maybe i’m “eccentric..”
lexi: but anyways, Red Dragon…
Yeah, at leat you’re only eccentric, Erika . . . a guy I’ve known for years, and whose opinion I trust, said I am definitely the kind of person that’s shy, quiet, and nice on the outside . . . but crazy on the inside, like I’m going to kill anybody who looks and me wrong. This guy is crazy too, so it’s OK, but I’m not really sure if it was a compliment or an insult. Both?
I’m considering getting the score, now that the $86 I thought I was scammed out of has been refunded . . . I do like what I hear so far, very very much.
“Yeah, at leat you’re only eccentric, Erika…”
Well, I was just told today by a fellow English teacher – male, BTW – that I’m “nice, but in a sarcastic, I-could-cut-you-off-at-the-knees-if-I-really-wanted-to way.” How’s that for uplifting? *grins* Nah, he probably just figured that, because of my general personality, that my sarcasm is the mean type. I don’t really consider it that, so much as just plain goofy. I’m often told to act my age, and not my shoe size – at least by my mother. I love being immature, because quite frankly, if I had to be serious all the time, I’d become even more loopy. I’m not “giggly” immature, just off-the-wall. Oh well. I’m enjoying “Red Dragon,” as well as Rudin’s “The Druids,” so let people think what they want…
“Yeah, at leat you’re only eccentric, Erika…”
Well, I was just told today by a fellow English teacher – male, BTW – that I’m “nice, but in a sarcastic, I-could-cut-you-off-at-the-knees-if-I-really-wanted-to way.” How’s that for uplifting? *grins* Nah, he probably just figured that, because of my general personality, that my sarcasm is the mean type. I don’t really consider it that, so much as just plain goofy. I’m often told to act my age, and not my shoe size – at least by my mother. I love being immature, because quite frankly, if I had to be serious all the time, I’d become even more loopy. I’m not “giggly” immature, just off-the-wall. Oh well. I’m enjoying “Red Dragon,” as well as Rudin’s “The Druids,” so let people think what they want…
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