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The question is: Elfman or Shore?
Shore.
http://www.cinematical.com/2008/04/01/howard-shore-says-hes-returning-for-the-hobbit/
Indiana Jones is going to swing in and kick everybody’s ass
Absolutely! I hope I’m not jinxing anything, but, unbelievably, this will be the first Indiana Jones movie since Raiders that will be the number one movie of the year.
The music that they play when you pause the video sounds similar to the classic Batman/Elfman sound. I wonder if that’s the score from the film?
In fact, I can’t think of a genre where he “struggles”. It would have to be if he’s asked to be very “mainstream” or to copy a temp track.
Bingo.
Proof of Life for example. I haven’t seen the movie IN YEARS but I recall the score was kinda lame. The Kingdom is also an action movie. And that score wasn’t so great either.
I suppose Proof of Life and The Kingdom are the only Elfman scores that are realistic action movies (is Mission Impossible another?), and if that’s the case (do to the similarity of the two scores) it seems you just don’t like Elfman’s approach in which he scored them. But they’re both completely competent. There’s nothing in either of those scores that suggests Elfman had trouble adequately finding the tone or anything like that.
I said when it comes to “action” scores (meaning scores to movies within the action genre) he tends to struggle a bit more…
What movies would those be?
Elfman says he had asked to collaborate with Manson in the past and the studios had declined… Do you have any idea what project he’s talking about ?
Well, if you do the math, it was a movie in ’01. Planet of the Apes would be the obvious guess.
But he tends to struggle with more grounded movies.
Like what? A Simple Plan? Red Dragon? A Civil Action? Good Will Hunting? Sommersby?
It’s funny, the parts I like best about The Kingdom, are the parts that remind me of Dead Presidents.
I’m a firm believer that Elfman gave Kingdom the score it needed. Whether or not it has the same replay value as, say, Corpse Bride, is open for debate, but still, a job well done, nonetheless.
In the top 10 Elfman list, for sure.
What is your top 10 Elfman list, Thor?
Three scores to anticipate, to be sure!
For Indy 4, it will be really interesting to see if Williams can disprove the idea that he can’t recapture a musical style that he hasn’t done in years.
Again, an animator is an artist who animates, i.e., the appearance of movement using animation.
Story boarding is NOT the same as animating a character. Characters in storyboards to not move when you flip them.
Some of the score that they used for the video is from the episode, It’s Never Too Late, which is just breathtaking.
I had no idea Bruce Timm was directing this. Very promising, indeed.
I’m not particularly into anime, but to say that it all looks the same is a complete fallacy.
Doing storyboards does not necessitate drawing thousands of animations for a cartoon.
If that were so, I could add “animator” to my business card.
