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Hate to ruin the mood, but I tend to think of this score as a Sleepy Hollow part Two. The songs, little as I like saying this, have a touch of the broadway element to them. I’ll be seeing the movie soon. Hope it’s good (although I’m not expecting Nightmare quality).
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
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.
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.
If it’s Elfman’s style you are referring to, I’m sorry but that has changed permanently. I’m not necessarily saying that he’s better or the worse now, he’s just different. Yes I’ll admit some works that have been squeezed into very small time frames have had similarities (for instance I personally feel that Spider-man and MIIB sound very similar, possibly due to orchestration, even if the main themes are completely different). I am presently a bit concerned from the little that I have heard thus far that “Charlie” will not seem to be all that far removed form “Big Fish” (although this is simply speculation on my part). One must remember that two artistic expressions will always cary underlining similarities if they are done while in the same frame of mind. This stated however, I have never known Danny to carry over a theme from one unrelated film to another (he isn’t Horner). If the man should decide to take a break after Corpse Bride (although as far as I know he’s booked) , good for him. He has been rather busy lately. I would not however go so far as to say he NEEDS a vacation though. I like when he’s busy. We get more work out of him.
By the way it has taken me the past three months or so to figure out that I needed to sign in to post here. I just today noticed the “Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum” notation at the bottoms of these pages. I was startin’ to suspect that no one loved me. Boo-hoo! And to think I call myself computer literate.
