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I just wanted to make sure that i wasn’t the only one who had strange chills running up and down your body and started crying during the climax of the ‘Grand Finale.’ I just listened to it, basically the first non rock or pop song i’ve ever listened to, and it has been so much more emotionally moving than any song i know of. now, i almost get angry when people refer to what’s playing on the radio today as ‘music.’ it has deeply effected me and now i will be listening to more classical music, screw that rap shit
by the way, i never cry so it was very odd for me
There’s certain spots of music I always get chills, and “The Grand Finale” is no exception…..but I do’t think music has ever brought tears to my eyes….except for maybe They Might be Giants’ “Purple Toupee”.
(That was a joke)YOUR A NUT BAR!!!
Just Kidding.
I can relate. I rarely cry over the music alone, but that scene in the movie movie always gets me teary. Family Man has the same affect on me. (I’m turning into a F*@king pussy!) Great scoring on Danny’s part.
lol. i know, it’s odd that i’m basically the stereotypical ‘jock’ type in high school but i’m not ashamed to say that listening to a song reduced me to tears
To me Edward Scissorhands is the greatest score ever written.
Don’t be embarassed that it made you cry, I think it does that to a lot of people, myself included.I agree one of the best and most original scores I’ve ever heard and experienced!
The cue that makes me well up and weep is right around where Edward is sitting down and the sheep dog sits beside him and he cuts the hair away from his eyes. It’s an ‘sad-irish spring’ sounding moment that reoccurs in other Elfman work such as Black Beauty and Mission Impossible.
“The cue that makes me well up and weep is right around where Edward is sitting down and the sheep dog sits beside him and he cuts the hair away from his eyes. It’s an ‘sad-irish spring’ sounding moment that reoccurs in other Elfman work such as Black Beauty and Mission Impossible.”
Is that during “Edwardo the Barber”?
If so, can you point out exactly when that bit occurs? I’m curious.
D.B.:
“Is that during ‘Edwardo the Barber’?If so, can you point out exactly when that bit occurs? I’m curious.”
Isn’t that part of the “Tide Turns” suite. It is also one of my favorite moments in the film and a prime example of effective scoring. However, I haven’t watched the DVD in some time and thus matching exact moments in the film to exact times on the CD cut is a bit tricky for me now.
E.I.G.:
“I know, it’s odd that i’m basically the stereotypical ‘jock’ type in high school but i’m not ashamed to say that listening to a song reduced me to tears”Well that certainly sets you apart from the Jocks that I went to high school with. They were all total pigs. That’s okay though. In the last three years since my graduating, those jock jerks have all gone away to college/university for one to two years, then dropped out and taken minimum wage jobs, but not until AFTER their meal plans had made them 35 to 50 pounds heaver. (Now they can’t afford to act like pigs, but still manage to look like them.) Hope you don’t do the same.
In addition to my last statement, I’d just like to add that one of the reasons that I think Edward Scissorhands is such a capital example of film scoring, is that the music alone seems to effectively tell the story by stimulating the proper emotions. The CD cut of the film score is an emotional ride in itself that takes you down the exact same “path” as the images in the film. The score was dubbed most effectively to the footage and the combine power of these two elements is strong enough to tear open the shielding with which we to protect ourselves and wrench our deepest inner beings (producing tears). Occasionally the music alone will do the same for me, but it depends on how deeply I submerge myself therein.
The chills (I find) are the result of an emotional connection with the music and typically occur in conjunction with swellings therein. The music attempts (over time) to coax emotions out of you (opening you up to form a connection), then floods the senses to produce over stimulation of the particular feelings it has been accessing and allowing to build up. When over stimulated, the emotions are released in the form of a chill or perhaps even tears. Edward’s Grand Finally does this perfectly. The whole score does this perfectly. That’s why it’s my favorate, followed by The Family Man. I have never heard the score to Black Beauty, but based on what others have told me about it, I’ll end up purchasing it eventualy
I was wrong! The cue I was speaking of earlier occurs when Edward is walking out of Jims house after the police disable the alarm system. For those of you checking by DVD it is the “drop your weapon” scene selection. Basically while he walks out the front door and down the side walk.
Got to love scene selection!
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