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Thursday, March 16, 2006

Scoring vids part two

Here's another behind-the-score video. Elliot Goldenthal talks about his music for Batman Forever. In 1995 the filmmusic world was introduced to a new Batman sound. Danny Elfman fans screamed for blood, while Goldenthal's over-the-top musical theatrics made lovers of soothing melody cringe. Not included in this video is Joel Schumacher's apology for Batman and Robin, the fiasco flop follow-up to Forever. That comes on the final DVD of Warner's Batman set released last fall. Enjoy...