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Nov 25, 2013 - 6:08 PM
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Senn555
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INTRADA Announces:
SO I MARRIED AN AXE MURDERER
Music Composed and Conducted by BRUCE BROUGHTON
INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 258
The 1993 Columbia film So I Married an Axe Murderer is a comedy with an axe murderer on the loose. It is a romance with suspense. It is riddled with jokes, visual gags and plenty of fun. And it required almost wall-to-wall music, via numerous songs and source music, literally from start to finish. Composer Bruce Broughton had the task of filling in the gaps, tying up loose ends, bridging the jokes and keeping a brisk pace. He also had the additional challenge of making the action-packed finale as exciting as possible. He wrote a score that was initially tuneful and flavored with humor, then ushered in suspense and climaxed with over-the-top action. He skillfully kept everything cohesive by fashioning a winding, flexible melodic idea with hints of mischief and danger that could be used in guises from hip to suspenseful, from gentle to exciting. It was just the unifying musical approach the picture needed.
For this premiere presentation of Bruce Broughton’s score, Intrada had access to the complete digital two-track stereo session DATs made by Armin Steiner, Broughton’s frequent scoring mixer, allowing for not only a presentation of his score as heard in the film but also the alternate versions of cues as well as the unused sequences that were replaced by material from other artists. The results are an album full of easy-to-digest tunes, smoky suspense cues, original source numbers and, ultimately, some genuine orchestral fireworks.
So I Married An Axe Murderer stars Mike Myers as a poet who is unlucky in love. And when it comes to butcher Harriet Michaels (Nancy Travis)—whom he falls in love, plans to wed and then suspects is the notorious Mrs. Axe, on the lam for whacking off her last three husbands—he's really unlucky.
INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 258
Retail Price: $19.99
Available Now
For track listing and sound samples, please visit
http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.8316/.f
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One of my favorite comedies (and easily one of Mike Meyers' best films), and I've always enjoyed the score. Especially the action-suspense material at the end.
Curious what the "Main Title" is, though, because in the film a song plays over the opening credits. Maybe it's a piece Broughton originally composed that was replaced by the song.
Well, it starts like it sounds something like Andrew Lloyd Webber could have composed.
The score is a much more enjoyable experience apart from the film, where the axe was definitely at play behind the scenes. Bruce describes his (mostly positive) experience on the film in the booklet.
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Dec 21, 2013 - 2:27 PM
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Hurdy Gurdy
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This is waaaay better than I expected it to be.
It's also one of Broughton's most eclectic scores, as he tries to cover all the various styles on offer in the film.
There's a light hearted touch to the comedy scenes, some lovely, low-key, quite spare romantic scoring, a bit of jazz and pop and towards the end, some dynamic thriller/action scoring that recalls his work on Monster Squad.
Not all of it works and the temp songs can be heard being aped at times, but it's a fascinating listen into the trials and tribulations of a talented composer trying to fix a troubled Hollywood production and some of it is really great. (Russian Stroll is the track which, when I first saw the film, had me grinning at it's sheer Broughton-ness. It was already available on his promo CD, but it's nice to hear it within the body of the score).
If you like your scores a bit broad, comedic and varied, you should try this one out, it's pretty cool.
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