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This really reminds me more of the Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure days.
Small budget film, quirky & fun. Considering all the MAJOR movies he’s done lately (Spider-Man, CatCF, Charlotte’s Web) I’m sure this is a lot more interesting to him because he can play with it while not being under a big director’s microscope.I think this is a perfect match albeit a little out of the blue!
I remember listening to SP2 and thinking that there really wasn’t anything “SPECTACULAR” about it… It was more or less a re-hash of the 1st movie (which was a classic in and of itself.)
Elfman likes to move in different directions, and though some can say and will agree that most of his work reflects his previous ones… I think in the case of SP2 he wasn’t given the freedom to explore new ideas. Even if he did do SP3 would it have made a difference? or would it have been an extension of the previous films. I found this excerpt from a review:**The real fun is when each theme goes head to head in ‘The Bank/Saving May’ and ‘Train/Appreciation’, the other cue not featured in the film. This, along with the aforementioned ‘Aunt May Packs’, were completed by Elfman before last minute tinkering by Raimi and his editor Bob Murawski (as is the norm for major ‘tent pole’ pictures) necessitated the re-scoring of some sequences and the completion of complete musical cues without Elfman. Fellow Oingo Boingo band member and long time Elfman orchestrator Steve Bartek replicated a fine Elfman-esque sound to his work on the picture but other composers John Debney (Spidey’s exciting pizza delivery) and Christopher Young’s (Octavius’ octo-arm demonstration) work is markedly different to the overall tone Elfman had established in both films leading to a cut-and-paste, although not entirely unsatisfying, end result.**
I believe it is this “cut and paste” effort that turned Danny off. He was asked to produce a score. He did, only to have it butchered in the end. Why help paint someones house if they’re just going to go behind you and do it themselves. I wonder if it was Rami’s desicion or the studios???
I for one am happy he’s doing Charlotte’s Web. Though the movie might not be a winner (who knows?) We can be sure that the Score will be a classic.
SORRY FOR THE LONG POST!!!! I hope this helped even a little.
