As the opening notes to RED DRAGON creep into your mind, you’re welcomed into the adult fairy tale world of composer Danny Elfman. From the strange sound of a muted piano to a deep flute to those frantic orchestral swells and crescendos, Elfman has taken his musically creative realm inside the mind of a serial…
Sidestepping from the world of pop music into that of film music in 1988 with PEE WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE, Danny Elfman quickly established himself as a formidable composer in the realm of motion pictures, the more fantastic the better. Elfman took continued strides as his relationship with PEE WEE director Tim Burton fermented through such…
Danny Elfman came into the first MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE movie late in the game, with only five weeks left to compose, orchestrate, and record more than an hour’s worth of symphonic music. Aware that Alan Silvestri’s score had been rejected by director Brian De Palma, Elfman accepted his own Mission Impossible and went on to compose…
Danny Elfman’s long-running collaboration with director Tim Burton continues with the director’s stylistic take on PLANET OF THE APES, which opened late July. A consistent percussive rhythm holds much of Elfman’s tempestuous score together, with bursts of horns and winds heightening the fast tempo. Elfman’s action music is terrifically dissonant, but without ranging out of…
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