Reply To: Danny Elfman
Planet of the Apes and Terminator Salvation are great examples of Elfman adapting a old quite bulky scores and making them his own in a good accessible way.
And then there are scores like “Men In Black”, “The Frighteners” or “Hellboy and the Golden Army” which have that typical Elfman quirk and bore me after 10 to 15 minutes.
With Elfman I really have an up-and-down relationship. At times I am a little annoyed by his music.
But still I think, he would have been a perfect match as composer for one of the Harry Potter movies. Williams’ Double Trouble from HP 3 already sounded like a leftover track from A Nightmare Before Christmas. His Sleepy Hollow style would fit very well into tha Wizzard world. Never understood why he wasn’t offered that.