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Apr 15, 2004 - 10:16 PM
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ahem
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Within the film, this score blows- it just sounds like Elfman pretending to be a poor man's Christopher Young, and it doesn't have any of the overwhelming, straight faced, haunting threat of the Hellbound or Hellraiser scores. Even worse, it's FULL of Elfman self-spoof "la-la-la-la-la"s everywhere. It all sounds messy and overorchestrated, especially when they are in the underworld sequences and there's too much going on (studio reedits to focus on Hollywood spectacle)- was it the studio who grabbed Elfman when Figg was fired and the whole post process went stateside? NightBreed was shot principally at Pinewood where Batman had been shot the year before, but this time the Sinfonia of London has been replaced by an LA childrens choir and sessions orchestra. That said, out of the context of the film and on the album MFADT, that music is GORGEOUS- real eerie, hauntingly melodramatic, progressive tribal music that can really stimulate an emotional imagination.
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In all sincerity and politeness I have to ask: if Christopher Young hadn't scored Hellraiser for Barker, would you still say Elfman was cribbing off of Young? I don't hear that at all in the score, but that's not to say you're not hearing it. To me, it sounds pure Elfman from my favorite period in his career.
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BTW, I don't post a whole lot, but I read the boards throughout the day and I have to say I love your recent Elfman threads, Thor! Keep 'em coming.
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But the action pieces are not very good. A problem which have many Elfman scores IMO. Hmm, I find Elfman's action music to be some of the most resilient and venturesome done by today's composers.
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