Figo 2 Posted July 30, 2002 Share Posted July 30, 2002 Edward Scissorhands is just coming on TBS (10:20 EDT). Don't say I never did anything for ye.Figo, who's been leaving the television set on in the other room evenings, now that he's gone to the trouble to rig up the illegal quasi-cable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morn 8 Posted July 30, 2002 Share Posted July 30, 2002 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Figo 2 Posted July 30, 2002 Author Share Posted July 30, 2002 It's cool that Vincent Price was in this film and all -- but boy does he look frail!Figo, back from the kitchen with another brewskie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UCFKevin 0 Posted July 30, 2002 Share Posted July 30, 2002 I think he's supposed to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Figo 2 Posted July 30, 2002 Author Share Posted July 30, 2002 I don't think he had a choice!Figo, who thinks Vincent was 107 at the time of Edward Scissorhands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamecube 0 Posted July 30, 2002 Share Posted July 30, 2002 I recently got the score and think it's exelent. What do you guys think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Figo 2 Posted July 30, 2002 Author Share Posted July 30, 2002 I'm reluctant to say it after all the griping I've done here -- but it's lovely.Or maybe the booze was just making me soft?Figo, who is now sorry he passed up the opportunity to buy it used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ren 75 Posted July 30, 2002 Share Posted July 30, 2002 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Figo 2 Posted July 30, 2002 Author Share Posted July 30, 2002 That's not very lady-like. :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ren 75 Posted July 30, 2002 Share Posted July 30, 2002 LOL LOL sorry, i don't know what came over me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamecube 0 Posted July 30, 2002 Share Posted July 30, 2002 beerchug LOL jump1 ROTFL :wiggle: censored :wow: bawling banghead censored censored beerchug beerchug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ren 75 Posted July 30, 2002 Share Posted July 30, 2002 what a symphony of sound Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Figo 2 Posted July 30, 2002 Author Share Posted July 30, 2002 Ew. We'd better send somebody out for some woodchips... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ren 75 Posted July 30, 2002 Share Posted July 30, 2002 :? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted July 30, 2002 Share Posted July 30, 2002 Edward Scissorhands is a great film and score.I really do hope you've enjoyed it, Figo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tpigeon 3 Posted July 30, 2002 Share Posted July 30, 2002 i agree, Merkel, though i like the score better than the movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 30, 2002 Share Posted July 30, 2002 Edward Scissorhands is a great film and score.I really do hope you've enjoyed it, Figo.You will instantly hear about it if Figo did NOT enjoy it.Stefancos- who sorta likes Figo's acetic posts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tpigeon 3 Posted July 30, 2002 Share Posted July 30, 2002 LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted July 30, 2002 Share Posted July 30, 2002 HAIL EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, TIM BURTON AND DANNY ELFMAN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted July 30, 2002 Share Posted July 30, 2002 Tim Burton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted July 30, 2002 Share Posted July 30, 2002 I cried in Edward Scissorhands bawling bawling bawling bawling bawling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted July 30, 2002 Share Posted July 30, 2002 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted July 30, 2002 Share Posted July 30, 2002 I'm just having fun with the new emoticons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted July 30, 2002 Share Posted July 30, 2002 I hate this course of events:1 - beerchug 2 - yipee :yellow: 3 - ROTFL 4 - and finally5 - Romão, playing with the emoticons and trying to be funny, although knowing he hasn't been at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ren 75 Posted July 31, 2002 Share Posted July 31, 2002 nice job with the emoticons, other people have a better grasp on them than me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue_Leader 2 Posted August 1, 2002 Share Posted August 1, 2002 Ren is a lady??? :wow: Damn! I know nothing about the people on this board. Anyway, I've always been of the opinion that Edward Scissorhands is best HEARD (via Elfman's score) rather than seen.Its a good film, but a bit to tear-jerky for my tastes. I remember when I first heard about this film and thought "Awesome! Tim Burton is making a HORROR FILM!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ren 75 Posted August 1, 2002 Share Posted August 1, 2002 holy cow, you're just getting that? woo. :oops: j/k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 1, 2002 Share Posted August 1, 2002 I cried in Edward Scissorhands bawling bawling bawling bawling bawlingI always cry during the finale of the film. It's mainly because of Elfman's score.......-Jason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morn 8 Posted August 1, 2002 Share Posted August 1, 2002 :wow: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CruciformSword 2 Posted August 2, 2002 Share Posted August 2, 2002 What's that supposed to mean? I'm sure I'm not the only one who cries when they listen to Elfman's finale to Edward Scissorhands.-Jason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted August 2, 2002 Share Posted August 2, 2002 I sure do.I cry why I listen to the trakc and when I watch the film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morn 8 Posted August 2, 2002 Share Posted August 2, 2002 I'm no Elfman fan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CruciformSword 2 Posted August 2, 2002 Share Posted August 2, 2002 You don't have to be. But that part in Edward Scissorhands is very beautiful and could make someone cry who's not a fan. -Jason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morn 8 Posted August 2, 2002 Share Posted August 2, 2002 You don't understand, he's one my least favourite composers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamecube 0 Posted August 2, 2002 Share Posted August 2, 2002 :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CruciformSword 2 Posted August 2, 2002 Share Posted August 2, 2002 But if you didn't know that he composed the music for Scissorhands, would you still dislike it?-Jason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morn 8 Posted August 2, 2002 Share Posted August 2, 2002 I think the score is ok. I dislike Elfman because I think 95% of his output is never above ok to bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Figo 2 Posted August 2, 2002 Author Share Posted August 2, 2002 I think people that love Elfman should expose themselves to some of Nino Rota's Fellini scores, especially 8 1/2. Also, there's a lot of Bernard Herrmann in Batman, even in the very brief "highlights" suite released as part of that Music for a Darkened Theatre anthology. If those are the best bits, Elfman really needs to work harder.I'm glad, though, that some of you appreciate his work. Figo, trying to maintain a positive outlook. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morn 8 Posted August 2, 2002 Share Posted August 2, 2002 And Herrmann had a low tolorance for people stealing off him, he stopped talking to his friend Copland for borrowing off The Devil and Daniel Webster in Lincoln Portrait. If Herrmann were still alive, Elfman would have a black eye. Speaking of Herrmann, did you know that he attented music classes by Percy Grainger? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Figo 2 Posted August 2, 2002 Author Share Posted August 2, 2002 I doubt very much Copland stole from Herrmann. This was probably another perceived slight, on Benny's part. Herrmann, of course, was notoriously irascible. (I wouldn't know anything about that. LOL) I am very well acquainted with both The Devil and Daniel Webster (the film and the concert suite) and A Lincoln Portrait. They share a common folk idiom, but other than that I can't see what could have gotten Benny in a snit. Copland probably would have been equally justified becoming furious with Herrmann for "stealing" from Rodeo (which, of course, he did not). Copland, though, by all accounts, was a very nice man and a generous spirit. Benny, it seems, spent his entire life in a perpetual state of pissed-offness.No, I didn't know that about Grainger, although he did come into contact with many famous people. It might be a good idea, though, Morn, for you to try to distinguish yourself, rather than always ride on the coattails of your ancestor. By the way, I forgot to thank you for posting the info on North's 2001. I'd read it somewhere before -- probably in the liner notes -- but, of course, had forgotten it.Figo, lazy and enfeebled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morn 8 Posted August 2, 2002 Share Posted August 2, 2002 Maybe it was The Magnificent Ambersons, anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Figo 2 Posted August 2, 2002 Author Share Posted August 2, 2002 Hmm. Where did you read about this? It wasn't in Heart At Fire's Center, was it? If so, I can look it up.Figo, wishing Benny's ticker had held out long enough that he could have bitch-slapped Elfman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morn 8 Posted August 2, 2002 Share Posted August 2, 2002 A biography on a web site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Figo 2 Posted August 2, 2002 Author Share Posted August 2, 2002 Sloppy scholarship, my boy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted August 2, 2002 Share Posted August 2, 2002 Although I admit Elfman may borrow from some one in a while, I still think is sound is pretty original and I?m not sure about this, but he was probaly the oen who really used the Lalalalalal chorus in film scores. I think he's great with choir.Sleepy Hollow, Batman and Edward Scissorhands are all great and, i belive, original pieces of music.Did you guys know that during the 1990 academy awards cerimony, Elfman got a call from Henry Mancini telling him he should've won the oscar that year for batman? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morn 8 Posted August 2, 2002 Share Posted August 2, 2002 Ohh really? If I remember, it was written by David Raksin! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Figo 2 Posted August 2, 2002 Author Share Posted August 2, 2002 Although I admit Elfman may borrow from some one in a while, I still think is sound is pretty original and I?m not sure about this, but he was probaly the oen who really used the Lalalalalal chorus in film scores.The practice goes back to at least 1937, when Dimitri Tiomkin used a wordless choir in Lost Horizon. Also, weren't Empire of the Sun and Glory earlier?But perhaps I've misunderstood you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ren 75 Posted August 2, 2002 Share Posted August 2, 2002 i love grainger's works Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamecube 0 Posted August 2, 2002 Share Posted August 2, 2002 It seems like Elfman mostly copies his own music. Many of his main themes sound simular and Edward Scissorhands main title sounds like the penguin stuff from Batman Returns. Prolouge from Army of Darkness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted August 2, 2002 Share Posted August 2, 2002 Figo, I wasn't exactly talking about wordless choir, but rather that kind of choir with a fairy tale quality to it as heard, for example, in batman returns and in the animated series version of beetlejuice's theme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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