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Hey, guys!
I love "Men in Black," especially its original score. With "Men in Black: International" in theaters this weekend, I wanted to dive into what makes Danny Elfman's original music so great.
Hope you enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP4nV_CgEwk
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All the greats - John Williams, Alan Menken, Anne Dudley!
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All the greats - John Williams, Alan Menken, Anne Dudley!
I wonder if “arranger” Herbert Spencer will get a shout out in the inevitable John Williams video!
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Nice video! The score is indeed one of Elfman’s best. I always felt he had a creative run with Mission Impossible in ‘96 and MIB in the following year. Both are outstandingly wild.
Maybe one thing to add regarding the Main Titles: the four opening bars are a reference to the Star Trek theme - which I always thought was such a brilliant in-joke ^^
Okay that's awesome!
I need to revisit this score. Elfman always writes epic finales to his films and this one (with Batman and Edward Scissorhands) is in my top 3. The soft descending string pattern that starts at :47 into that cue was a very popular phrase in 90's film music (off hand, I can think of references in Cutthroat Island end credits and The Mask of Zorro love theme)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olRBySiZT34
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I would love to see this expanded.
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I would love to see this expanded.
What's missing, really? The trailer music would be good to have officially, I guess.
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I would love to see this expanded.
What's missing, really? The trailer music would be good to have officially, I guess.
The OST is missing quite a bit. The boot isnt missing anything I dont think.
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Yeah, I don't know, man. It's maybe like 10 minutes of film score (minus the trailer stuff), but mostly super short cues. It was back when Elfman still had his heart in the game, though, so I guess there's where the value really is. Little cues like the scene where the baby alien gets delivered would qualify as a main theme to Elfman these days. Still, good score (just not one of the best of the 90s!).
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Yeah, I don't know, man. It's maybe like 10 minutes of film score (minus the trailer stuff), but mostly super short cues. It was back when Elfman still had his heart in the game, though, so I guess there's where the value really is. Little cues like the scene where the baby alien gets delivered would qualify as a main theme to Elfman these days. Still, good score (just not one of the best of the 90s!).
I love Elfman's score as much as the next -iac, and I watched the film countless times back in the late '90s, but I still can't for the life of me think of a single unreleased cue from MIB. The OST is such a great all-killer-no-filler album that I don't know it needs to be messed with.
I do think Elfman's still doing great work - End of the Tour, Dumbo, and The Grinch all have some of the best-scored scenes of recent memory - but the original MIB score does really take me back to a time when Elfman was writing music that was completely unlike anything we had heard before. At the time, I remember being partially bummed that he was leaving behind the more hummable music of his early '90s heyday in favor of these spiky, dissonant, and rhythmically dense percussive scores. In retrospect though, that Elfman run from roughly 96-02 represented a rare stretch of time when somebody could write such uncompromisingly bizarre scores for big summer tentpoles and get away with it. Today, unless a composer is directly being asked to quote his old work for a sequel score, you can't get away with the wild music Elfman wrote for Mission: Impossible, MIB, Planet of the Apes, or Spider-Man for a big budget feature.
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