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I find it scandalous that no one has posted this already!
I finally got around to watching all the extras on disc 2 of the Spider-Man 2 DVD, and there’s more unreleased music in this thing than you can shake a stick at.
That I noticed right away, I found:
– The “Cake Girl” cue in the “The Women of Spider Man” featurette when they’re talking about the Ursula character.
– In the same featurette you’ll hear a bit of the “Happy Montage” that was replaced with Raindrops keep falling on my head.
– The Building on Fire cue in the “Practical Effects” section of the long documentary.
– The “Direction” part of the long documentary has THE ENTIRE Pizza Delivery cue, I couldn’t believe my ears. Someone computer savvy enough has to make an mp3 of that ASAP!
– The “Costumes” section of the documentary has what sounded to me like the original cue that was to be played when Spidey dumped the costume. A slower version of the music that was used, which was the ending of “Final Confrontation” from the first score.
– During the “Direction” part I heard a lot of music that I hadn’t heard before, especially when it starts focusing on the Jameson character. No idea where it could’ve been placed.
-The “Editing” part of the documentary starts with a very slow version of the Doc Ock theme I never heard before.All this is proof that all those insane changes must’ve happened mere weeks [or days!] before the film was released. I’ll never get it.
I really need to watch the whole thing again, as I’m sure I missed a lot of stuff.
Hehe! You’ll also find the original music played when Peter drops and breaks his glasses after the restaurant scene (in the movie part of “Revenge” played) when they show the title for the “Sounds and Music” section of “Making the Amazing.” It’s a triumphant blast of three brass notes that’s really awesome. Also, a favorite among all of us is the original music composed for the close-up swing scene, and it can be heard both a) during the beginning of Danny’s interview in “sounds and music” and b) at the very beginning of the Spyder-Cam feature. D-Bo’s Spider-Man 2 Suite features it mixed in quite well.
Here’s a few clips I recorded off the DVD. Apologies if there are more that I missed.
http://portfolio.iu.edu/dbohanno/Music/Spider-Man_2/dvd_fanfare.mp3
http://portfolio.iu.edu/dbohanno/Music/Spider-Man_2/dvd_given_up.mp3
http://portfolio.iu.edu/dbohanno/Music/Spider-Man_2/dvd_menu1.mp3
http://portfolio.iu.edu/dbohanno/Music/Spider-Man_2/dvd_menu2.mp3
http://portfolio.iu.edu/dbohanno/Music/Spider-Man_2/dvd_menu3.mp3
THANK YOU!!! SO MUCH!!! I’m going to Italy this week, and these songs will very gratefully be added to my mp3 player for the long flights. You rock, D-Bo!
Again, great work, D-Bo!
Where is that “menu3” from? I don’t recognize it and I can’t think of where it would fit in the film.
Argh, this topic and listening to those really makes me sad. One of the things I was anticipating most about SM3 was getting another great Elfman score…Denied!!! Christopher Young, you better get to work dammit! I expect greatness as in the first two films……..
Holy cow. I just watched all those parts you had mentioned, Spider-Fan, and I’m amazed at just how much material there was left. I want to say we should petition for Sony to release the entire score (and unused cues) for this movie (or both movies), but, unfortunately, there’s no big reason for them to do it. Oh, the pain! Make it stop!
I wonder if the person responsible for the horrendous cut-and-paste work with bits from the first score is the editor Bob Murawski, as [like we see during the “Editing” section of Making the Amazing] he was the one with the idea to replace Danny’s “Happy Montage” with the Raindrops song.
Maybe that single decision was what opened the floodgates for the rest of the changes.
Well, make no mistake about it… the person who ultimately makes these decisions on these movies is the director. Of course, he could have been getting extreme pressure from the studio, but the director can (and should) go to bat for a score he really believes in. I don’t think much of Murwanowski, but in all fairness to him, the editor can whisper ideas in a director’s ear, but cannot change their opinions if they want to recut the whole movie or throw out a perfectly good piece of music.
This all sounds fascinating. I can’t find a similar list of hidden cues (or should they be re-named Easter Eggs?) in other discussions, just mentions here and there. Can someone point me in the right direction? What about firming a definitive list? It sounds like the logical thing to do. I’m sure both Ryan and I would want that kind of thing added to our sites, if it hasn’t been done by site-owng posters here.
I’ve already tried to list the details of the cue sheets shown on the DVD…
http://www.bluntinstrument.org.uk/elfman/archive/Spidy2cuesheets.htm
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Hey, I just remembered that the entire “Building on Fire” cue from the first film which was unreleased too, is in the “Rogue Gallery” of Disk 2 of the first film’s DVD.
Can anyone get that too?
http://membres.lycos.fr/mellow44/Sons/
I don’t even remember when I uploaded those clips…
Anyway, you’ll find what you’re looking for with “savemybaby” and “spidertheme”. “Spider Fall” and “Special Delivery” might interest you aswell…
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