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Nolan wants his Batman to be as grounded “as possible” so you need the least over the top music.
Well, when you see Batman gliding across Gotham, and smashing in car roofs with his feet, and driving into windows with his Batcycle, that is over the top. And that’s great. It’s Batman doing Batman stuff. I do not understand why the music needs to be in direct conflict with the imagery. I don’t buy the argument that a more realistic Batman movie equals a modern, subdued film score, especially when the tone of Nolan’s Batman isn’t that far off from Batman the Animated Series.
If Stephen Sondheim and his orchestrators wouldn’t be alive today, maybe I would have accepted to arrange some cues for Tim.
Maybe it would have been nice if Elfman were around to freshen up the orchestration. There were times when it sounded like the original recording.
(And I, too, love the songs in Dick Tracy, and would love to see a two-disc Vista release of the movie.)
I know that I am in the minority here, so I’ll keep my trap shut.
Nah. You should speak out when you want to. We’re all friends here. We can take it.
I feel like he’s in a hurry to get to the good stuff…
But doesn’t it take at least an hour to where Todd is slicing people’s necks? That hardly seems rushed to me.
Specifically, I refer to the flashback sequence of Todd’s life before returning to London. That entire montage was slapdash…
Well, considering that the dialogue from the flashback sequence was sung, i.e., music from the stage play, I’m not sure if Burton was ready to take a digression from the original text.
Also, I’m not sure if it’s in the spirit of the play that we are to feel sorry for Todd and company, but rather, to be amused by their nastiness, where instead, the innocent young couple should get out sympathies.
But as I said, I feel like the middle moments are rushed.
What aspects of the movie would you have Burton expand upon?
Yeah, both Burton and Speilberg were producers on the short-lived “Family Dog” animated series back in the 90s.
I thought Family Dog was just a TV movie?
You can hear it here:
Also, when Rick Moranis looks at the broom, you can hear the same damn music that’s associated with the Nazis in The Rocketeer.
I think it is.
It’s very hard to prove in court that a composer in question consciously ripped off a piece of music. However, James Horner HAS been sued before, if memory serves.
Well… that would imply that he’d have to do Vincent and Sweeney Todd that way too.
Do you know something I don’t?
I hope that Burton does a stop motion remake of Ed Wood as well, so his filmography will be completely scored by Elfman. As it should be.
Cool.
You know, even though this is not the most pleasing Main Title that Elfman has come up with, nonetheless, it is perfectly scored.
That is a piece, believe it or not, from Danny Elfman. And it’s from the film Planet of the Apes. And it’s so funny, no one will ever know…
Other than people who’ve seen the movie or have heard the score, ya dope!
I was even very disappointed with “A civil action” and “A simple plan”.
Oh my God, A Simple Plan was a masterpiece.
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