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 Posted:   Jun 26, 2019 - 4:14 PM   
 By:   ZardozSpeaks   (Member)

The performer credits (courtesy American Federation of Musicians) within the liner notes from La-La Land's 3-CD set of Wonder Woman lists these 4 singers:

Myrna Matthews
Sherlie Matthews
Lisa Roberts
&
Julie Tillman

Although the 3rd season episode scores on disc 3 eschew the Charles Fox/Norman Gimbel 'Wonder Woman' chanting during action music scenes, discs 1 & 2 feature quite a bit of such in the Artie Kane scores (and the Charles Fox pilot music, of course).

To date, FSM members have expressed appreciation for this release and I don't recall any criticisms regarding Wonder Woman's name being sung during some scenes.

Yet, throughout the years here @ FSM's board, there has been plenty of feedback by members stating their dislike of the sopranos chanting the name of 'RoboCop' within Leonard Rosenman's 1990 soundtrack for Robocop 2.

Let the FSMers discuss!

Wonder Woman vs. Robocop! smile

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 26, 2019 - 4:29 PM   
 By:   Thgil   (Member)

I think the reason people feel differently about Wonder Woman as opposed to RoboCop 2 is simple. Wonder Woman is pure camp. RoboCop 2 was the follow-up to one of the most brilliant science fiction movies of the '80s (if not all time). Singing the protagonist's name is campy as all get out.

I say this as someone who enjoys Rosenman's score.

 
 Posted:   Jun 26, 2019 - 5:01 PM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

Robocop is camp. I still don't like the chanting though.

 
 Posted:   Jun 26, 2019 - 7:11 PM   
 By:   Spinmeister   (Member)

Robocop is satire. And Rosenman's Overture should be taken in the same vein as these were:



It's a marvellously crafted 6 mins. of heroic pomp and circumstance, and I still get a kick out of it practically 30 years later.

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 26, 2019 - 10:31 PM   
 By:   Thgil   (Member)

I'm not denying that RoboCop is satire. However, it isn't camp. There's a distinction. The movies satirize capitalism, the media, and are peppered with black comedy, but the main story is serious overall. RoboCop may occasionally do things that are funny (like bend the perp's gun barrel in the first movie) but his story is typically untouched by the satire and black comedy.

In other words, he's a tragic character in a satirical world. No one's going to take any scene in Wonder Woman as seriously as Murphy going to his former home and no scene in the first two RoboCops approaches the absurdity of Wonder Woman singing a disco tune. They're both self-aware, but in completely different ways.

Personally, I think Rosenman's end title was as much a knock at a movie he didn't particularly care for as much as a finale. I'm just glad he didn't use the chanting in the score proper.

 
 Posted:   Jun 27, 2019 - 2:45 AM   
 By:   Ny   (Member)

It's not the first time Rosenman used a name-chorus, he did it for William Shatner's Alexander the Great, which, I'm quite sure, did not raise any complaints. Of course the notion that Robocop is due the same reverence as Alexander is very amusing, and I can't help but enjoy the idea. So, if I'm interpreting Rosenman's motivation, maybe he's thinking about a future where we come to depend on such constructs completely, and maybe there is a touch of eye-rolling in there, although maybe not, there is a lot of emotion in the score, which might suggest a connection of some sort.

 
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