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We continued to cut the movie though. When we put Danny’s music with the shorter cut, the themes were much closer together and it started to feel repetitive.
Wow. I wonder if he feels the same way about Elfman’s Batman, or the original Star Wars, or Raiders of the Lost Ark? And he must’ve hated Up.
Listen to “Baked You A Cake / Flash Struggles† / That’s All Folks!”
A very “classical” side of Elfman I’ve never really heard before. Definitely has the flavor of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
Sold!
Well you could get around to buying the ANIMATED SERIES set
Indeed. If you don’t get the Animated Series album, you are really missing out. They don’t really write music like that anymore.
By the way, what Elfman says about Walker is f**king amazing!!!
Ha, ha. Well, let me clarify — you’re a director who’s making a multi-million dollar movie.
First, I would give him like a “mix tape” that has some ideas and musical flavors he might want to consider. Then I’d try to convince him that he’d have the freedom to write music with that kind of melody and creativity that composers did in the 30s, 40, and 50s. Then, during the spotting session, we’d talk more specifically on musical ideas, theme development, so forth. We’d abolish the temp track. And when that’s all done, I’d put him in charge of the film dub, so the sounds effects and music would actually be level. What a concept, huh?
Remember, the Green Hornet’s theme is “flight of the bumblebee” by Rimsky-Korsakov, so it would be nice to here the Russian/Jazz combination as the elements in this score
That would be fantastic! Can’t argue with that.
Is it okay if he remakes his own original projects, like Frankenweenie? I actually think that’s a really good idea.
Did you know the only Burton films that weren’t adapted from another medium is Beatlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, and Corpse Bride? Reimagining is what Burton does.
The Wolfman music is great! It sounds so seductive. Very much in the spirit of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
I really thought the fans knew his stuff better than that. I guess I was wrong.
Ha, ha. Well what do I know?
Well, until I see a trailer, I could care less about a new Spider-Man movie.
Ha, ha. I forgot about the infamous Zimmer “jolly Batman theme” comment. I, personally, don’t think Zimmer meant anything by that. But in case he did: at least Elfman didn’t score his gothic superhero soundtrack like a f**king Michael Mann movie.
Oops, small correction, Forbidden Zone started filming in 1980, and, according to the Boingo book, it wasn’t released in theaters until “82-83.”
You’re right. “Black Beauty” was big and packed with action. And let’s not get started on “Sommersby”.
Ha, ha. Those movies are certainly bigger tonally than A Simple Plan and A Civil Action! But, you know, maybe if there was a talking horse in Civil Action (like in Black Beauty), it would have been scored differently. More over, if talking-horse movies where popular with the academy, I’m sure all of Elfman’s future scores would have sounded like Black Beauty, because, as we know, Elfman is tremendously influenced by the academy.
