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Actually, Danny did go but as a non-student. I remember him saying somewhere that he hung around in the ethnic music department.
I noticed the Harry Potter sound in there too. I think he almost quotes the Potter theme with horns before spinning off in another direction during one section of the cue.
I actually think that’s the cue that follows Charlotte spinning the “Some Pig” web for the first time.
Yes… I read the book.
*narrows eyes*I have one posted on the front of this page (just skim through the mp3 player at the bottom)…
http://www.twilight-land.comThank God McG didn’t direct.
I think using screen names like his are a way of sounding “hip” and “cool” to young audiences… but instead end up sounding like something on the McDonalds Dollar Menu.
Maybe he’s sold his soul to the Hollywood elite, unlike Elfman, but the score is nonetheless enjoyable. That’s just me though.
You know, I really loved how Ottman used Williams’ themes and even dipped into the Americana Williams style throughout a lot of the score but I loved even more that he took off on his own and expanded on the material. The chorus is always a plus but hearing those brassy major chords blasting out of the man is still a little new to me considering some of his previous scores… but it’s a welcome style none the less.
Imagine the success that could have been garnered — the little extra additional edge delivered so to speak — if the post-Burton Batman directors would have at least used Elfman’s theme in their attempts. Bryan Singer has said that the Williams March is as much a part of the Superman lore as the cape and the suit. The same goes for Elfman’s theme for Batman. The only difference is that Singer is a director who understood that. It’s a shame Schumacher or Chris Nolan didn’t.
Imagine if the Batman Begins score would have started in one place and worked it’s way progressively towards Elfman’s Batman Fanfare. It doesn’t matter that it’s a completely different interpretation. The spirit is still there and seeing Batman soar at that movie’s climax without the bang of Elfman’s music or any real theme to cling onto rung hollow to me instead. But — again — that’s just me and a reason why I think Superman Returns will do well. Subliminally people will respond.
Yes, and there was a cartoon version with talking animals too. There hasn’t been a live action Charlotte’s Web film until now though and now that it’s been made it follows the same look and feel of Babe.
I watched it. So what? It’s Charlotte’s Web. What did you expect would happen with a story about animals that talk? Subtitles? It’s pretty much what I expected it would look like: an updated version of “Babe.”
It’s always weird to read the credits and see John Williams, Danny Elfman and Steve Bartek all cited together. Incidentally, Tim Burton’s animation design still comes off as awesome after all these years.
Napoleon Dynamite created a lot of fans. I think Elfman probably loved that goofy-ass movie and that’s why he’s doing this one.
Elfman to Sam Raimi: “Dangit! I don’t care about the flippin’ temp track!! GOSH!!!”
Yeah, I had things like that happen to me alot when I was first discovering Elfman, right before the second Batman came out in 91 or 92. I had a whole list of music that I enjoyed and eventually realized one day that it was all from the same guy. Everything I liked he had his mark on. It felt pretty weird at the time.
Anyway, as a side note, I remember sitting there watching Batman Returns and thinking “You know, There’s no way they would ever make new Spider-Man or Superman movies without hiring this guy for music.” Lo and behold, Superman Lives almost happened and the two Spider-man movies did happen. I flipped out when I first heard about the latter. A buddy owed me money over that and I’d since lost contact with the slippery bastard.
By God I’ll collect on that bet some day. *narrows eyes*
By God.…Also, I knew he’d do The Hulk.
____________J.R. Flynn
http://www.twilight-land.comThey probably just do the gruesome stuff because they can. Remember when it was just construction paper animation? Now it’s completely computer animated. About the “Chef Returns” episode though, This can probably be seen as a counterpart to that too. Issac Hayes left because he thought the guys were being intolerant against religion. This episode went right into that criticism.
It ends with Scissorhands but that music at the beginning is not Elfman but Saint-Saens’ “Aquarium” from Carnival of the Animals.
See?
I do think Elfman counts him as one of his inspirations though.
You know,
I watched the new episode and it didn’t really make fun of Family Guy as much as it made fun of censorship. Family Guy was just used as a double for South Park in the episode, which makes fun of religion all the time.
Basically, Family Guy depicted the prophet Muhammad and the country freaked out. It blows my mind how clever it was. There was all this symbolism. America literally buries their heads in the sand rather than embrace freedom of speach.
Also, they made fun of episodes being pulled over fear from one group or another. Remember the scientology episode was pulled by Comedy Central?
It ended up as a two-parter. In the final moments of the show, Trey Parker and Matt Stone literally dared Comedy Central to have the balls to show the second half.
Christ. That was an awesome episode.
I hear it’s not supposed to be anti-Family Guy at all. It’s just about Kyle and Cartman fighting over something Family Guy related. They did an episode on the Simpsons too that wasn’t bad or anything so I trust it will be alright.
I hadn’t watched the show in a while, probably since the movie came out, but after that Scientology episode aired I got all caught up again. Holy crap that was a great episode. The show gets better as the years go by.
