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Official credit in the end credits of the movie
‘Music by The Newton Bros
Additional Music and Themes by Danny Elfman.’Well it might seem that way to us but the Fifty Shades has the most Amazon reviews of any Elfman score in recent memory and FilmMusicReporter’s post about him scoring the sequel is by leaps and bounds their most popular ever post. All this comes with the territory with a fanbase as rabid as that but still.
I thought the movie was perfectly fine. Dakota Johnson did a good job and the steely aesthetic, cinematography, production design and score were really quite appealing to me. I can name a lot worse movies Elfman has scored.
I tracked down the special edition of the first movie which has a 6 – 7 minute featurette on the score.
Really neat. It’s bookmarked with comments from Sam Taylor-Johnson who is clearly a huge Elfman fan and very excited to be working with him. Elfman’s in good spirits and has a lot to say, the edited versions on youtube really don’t sell what he was really talking about. Lots of orchestra footage and some bts stuff of Elfman and the cast and crew when he visited the set. It’s also mostly set to unreleased music.
Really cool featurette worth checking out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN1uhnnKscY
This is going to be good…
Trailer looks unlike anything Danny has ever scored.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CKPj4O5_9s
So exciting.
Apparently Deborah Lurie wrote additional music for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Hellboy II and Charlotte’s Web – according to her website anyway.
I know it’s not going to be an entirely electronic score – there was an orchestra session. But having read the book I cannot imagine the score not being predominantly electronic – perhaps a hybrid like Fifty Shades. We’ll see.
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#LAFilmFestival surprise: Danny Elfman's "crazy" Twyla Tharp score, recorded for 1st time, will be available for 2017 short film contest
— jen yamato (@jenyamato) June 9, 2016
This is a shame.
The music is obviously the important thing though – has anyone listened to it yet? The samples sound far more manic than I expected.
Someone on another forum described it as the bridge between Serenada and Iris, I can definitely hear that.
Granted my music knowledge is borderline non-existent but the main theme is in virtually every track of Men in Black 2 and 3? Or at the very least some component of it.
I like Elfman’s approach, it makes the scores cohesive. I feel like the last two tracks of Elfman’s album for Alice 2 (Goodbye Alice and Kingsleigh and Kingsleigh) feel like the conclusion of a two-part story instead of one. Same with the ‘Mission Accomplished’ cue from Men in Black 3 or when the love theme is finally complete at the end of Spider-Man 2. I feel those themes have all gone somewhere which I don’t really get from many sequel scores these days. The callbacks to Skyfall in Spectre seem obligatory and rehashed for example.
More than anything, I think it’s cool that with musical continuity seemingly being thrown out the window in Hollywood Elfman is going in the opposite direction.
Having listened to the score twice now I think the Elfman cues are
Getting the House Ready
Welcoming Cody
Cody’s First Day of School
Butterflies (I think this cue starts with Elfman and switches half way through)
Classroom Drawing
I’m Sorry
Post Sean “Dream” Breakfast
Sean’s Christmas DVD
What Happens When He Dreams (Starts with Newton Bros then Elfman for sure)
Cankerman Eats Whalen’s Wife (Same as above but goes back to Newton bros)I’m not sure about the main titles.
It seems like Elfman tackled the drama and The Newton Bros got all the mood/horror stuff.
It’s a really odd combination if nothing else. Very small score. Lots of piano, those rhythmic figures he loves so much these days and some very Elfman-like choir. For the cues that are seemingly Elfman’s at least.
The Newton Bros stuff is very harsh and electronic.
I’ve listened to the score and I’d say it’s around 15% Elfman? It’s pretty clear when it’s him and it’s certainly clear when it’s not…
I’d say the ‘Additional Music and Themes by’ credit was a lot closer to the truth, but Elfman’s a name composer so… Varese are releasing the CD so we should get a breakdown of who wrote what in September.
The track titles give away the entire movie btw.
As the movie has been released in quite a few foreign territories the score has found its way onto Youtube.
The cover is really cool.
September 8th.
http://www.thewrap.com/relativity-sets-release-dates-for-masterminds-kidnap-and-before-i-wake/
Alice – May
Tulip Fever – July
Before I Wake – September
The Circle – November?
Fifty Shades Darker – FebruaryNice little run for us Elfman fans. Also, the variety between these projects is quite something – I know I’m biased but Elfman’s got the most exciting career right now.
