Gracias! Anoche olvidé copiarlo aquí también
Gracias! Anoche olvidé copiarlo aquí también
Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready
for the big moments.No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it
does.So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are
gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that
counts. That's when you find out who you are. You'll see what I mean.
Whistler (Buffy The Vampire Slayer - 2x21 Becoming, Part One - Joss Whedon)
Cuelgo aquí también el comentario de Descent into mysterydel hilo de bandas sonoras:
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Es que claro... Son percepciones que uno de niño ni se da cuenta. Pero de adulto... Batman rescata a Vicky, la cual casi la palma a manos del Joker y es rescatada por Batman; además es reportera y tal, y tiene interés en el murciélago, con lo que le va el doble de bien (tiene miedo y tal pero esconde el carrete). Pero a la vez ese señor le pone, es obvio, es normal, nadie sabe quien es, va ahí de negro salvando gente pero parece malote, tiene esos cacharros, la salva, se la lleva en plan salvador en su corcel/coche negro a su cueva/castillo... Y ella en el coche va 33% precavida, 33% con ganas de saber quien es y adonde la lleva y 33% en plan qué tio...Joder, no?.
Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready
for the big moments.No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it
does.So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are
gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that
counts. That's when you find out who you are. You'll see what I mean.
Whistler (Buffy The Vampire Slayer - 2x21 Becoming, Part One - Joss Whedon)
Lo pongo por aquí también.
Os dejo esto por aquí, Shirley Walker hablando de su relación laboral con Danny Elfman y Hans Zimmer:
On Scrooged, Danny called me. At that time they had been looking for someone to conduct. He had been working with Bill Ross on several projects and he wanted to make a change at that time. And I guess he had just talked to a number of people a number of people and they had recommended me. So he called and we talked, hit it off on the phone and it just sort of went from there. (S42)
The following year, Walker reteamed with Elfman on BATMAN, the film that would cement Elfman's reputation as an A-list blockbuster composer, and whichwould portend Walker's own most acclaimed work:
When Danny E[lfman], Steve B[artek], and I finished recording the first Batman score in London, we had worked with the orchestra for a record number of sessions. (I've forgotten the exact number, but it was more sessions than any composer had utilized to record a film score before Batman.) The orchestra had gotten a huge farewell card for me. Some of their personalized greetings contained references to the length of time we took to record, such as "here's to one more take." (WFM)
We just went on and on and on...it seemed like we were never going to finish that score! And in fact, some of the British musicians, when I went back on another project -- it had been a couple of years -- the contractor, who they call a "fixer" over there, I was having dinner with his family, and he showed me this new tennis court that he had added in his home, and he had a plaque dedicating it to Danny Elfman! They had done so many takes on things that it helped pay for his tennis court!
[B]And it was a major, major disappointment for me, personally, that Danny did not get a nomination for that score. I completely understand the dynamics of the industry, and why people...why his peers wouldn't give it to him. Because that's just professional envy, and all of those things. But I just thought it was a far more interesting score than John Williams' scores that were nominated that year[/B]
Bueno..., lo que ha dicho...
(...)
I don't think I was too keen on trying to get my own credits at that point. I was, as you said, having the opportunity to work with the major talent of the day, the major young talent, the up-and-coming talent of that era, and I was learning so muchóplus, we were working on the best films of the year, every year! Which, when you switch over and start getting your own stuff, it's a huge step down. You're no longer getting to work on the best movies. You have to build your career back up to that level of opportunity.
(...)
Soon after beginning her collaboration with Danny Elfman, she started working as an orchestrator and conductor for the other most influential composer of that era, Hans Zimmer, performing those duties on such scores as BLACK RAIN, BIRD ON A WIRE, DAYS OF THUNDER, PAFICIC HEIGHTS, RADIO FLYER, and A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN:
My association with Hans Zimmer, which lasted a good many years, came about because right at the time he was coming over here from England, he was with the same agency that I was with, and he wanted an orchestrator and somebody to conduct for him. I had a lunch meeting with him and his partner and we all hit it off, and we had a glorious span of projects there for quite a few years. And Hans actually got me another feature, CHICAGO JOE AND THE SHOWGIRL, which again is a shared credit. It's nothing he wrote a note of, but his contractual obligation was such that he kept his name on it. I had an association over a number of projects and years with Danny Elfman, first as a conductor, and then gradually I became involved as an orchestrator. And there was a thing with Carter Burwell, Brad Fiedel -- Brad and I go back quite a few years, and I've just retired from that because, now that I'm composing, it doesn't make sense.
The success of Elfman's Batman score led to further collaborations with Walker, on NIGHTBREED (as conductor-orchestrator), DICK TRACY (additional orchestrator) and EDWARD SCISSORHANDS (conductor-orchestrator):
I think Danny's fans know by now that he writes his own music. At the time I worked with him, it was more his envious peers who delighted in keeping alive the notion that he couldn't write. Unfortunately, perception frequently outweighs truth.
When Danny asked me to write for Nightbreed, I explained the means I had come up with to receive end credit for my composing without using the dreaded "additional music by" credit which carries with it the stigma of a partially thrown out score. I needed Danny's consent and support to get my credit and he graciously agreed to give me that support. (WFM)
Someone who I will not name but a composer who is a good friend of mine when he heard a cue I had written for Dick Tracy, which ended up not being in the film. They didn't want to have music in that scene; it was where the boiler explodes. And this guy who prides himself on his open-mindedness was just at a loss for words. And he finally blurted out to me, "Shirley! It sounds like a guy could have written that." You know? And then he was stumbling all over himself because of the implications inherent in that statement. (S42). ¡Ojo a esto último! Tremendo y muy triste.
(...)
[I]The weekly TV series based on the comic book superhero THE FLASH was clearly inspired by Tim Burton's Batman, both in the design of the costume and in the hiring of Danny Elfman to write the show's theme. Walker was hired as the show's principal composer:
It was fantastic. I think mostly because of Danny Bilson and Paul DeMeo who were the writer/producers of the show; in fact, Danny Bilson directed quite a few of the episodes too. They exercised a very hands-off kind of style as producers. As long as they were happy with what you were doing, they just figured, "that's fine, you just take care of it." They were only there when we would spot the show and they would say things like, "well, we really need help this week, Shirley." Which is marvelous, because, working on a show like CHINA BEACH, which I did maybe three episodes of... you had people who were very concerned about what instruments you used. Whether you used things in the high end or low end. They had very very particular requirements.
The Veterans Hospital comedy-drama ARTICLE 99 proved to be Walker's final collaboration with Danny Elfman, as she began to move away from orchestrating and conducting for other composers, and started putting more focus on her own composing:
Danny and I have parted ways. But I was thrilled to be part of his team at the time, part of the first Batman score in particular. I thought it was absolutely the most wonderful score of that year. It was ground-breaking because it was a shift in the way super-heroes were portrayed with music. Danny created a whole new sound. Just like John Williams put the orchestra in space, Danny put this dark, kind of Gothic thing to the comic heroes. But one of the misfortunes for Danny is that every wag who's out there is taking pot shots at people who are succeeding at the level he succeeds at. They're always trying to create stuff that isn't true, which sort of tears away at the fabric of his work and his very hard on his team. So, the constant perception that I was writing his music was ultimately detrimental to our relationship. I was glad when I finally said to myself, "I need to stop working with this man because, number one, I have my own aspirations." (TS)
I'm not a very critical part of Danny's work, because his core person for seventeen years [as of 1992] has been Steve Bartek. I just get called in when there's an overflow of orchestration. I only did one quarter of that work on Batman, which is hardly monumental. And as a conductor, you're a hired gun musician who's brought in for their ability. I'm not changing Danny's music on the podium, yet people have this fantasy that he doesn't have any ability, which Danny inadvertently fostered by portraying himself as naive and innocent at the start of his composing career. He would sing into a cassette recorder as the picture went by, but Danny had such respect for the film music that he taught himself the craft. By the time I came along on Scrooged, Danny had come up with a scoring paper of his own design. He might write the way he thinks, but the notes and rhythms are all there. He's more accurate than other composers who never have their abilities questioned. (VM)
Conducting film scores is like being a traffic cop. I understand that the musicians sitting out there are capable of giving an incredible performance if the time that we spend together can be structured in a way that gives them the space to perform. I think that's the best thing I did as a film-score conductor -- I ran the sessions in a way where the musicians knew that their questions would get answered, would not be ignored. The recording engineer knew that there would be time allowed for him to get his sound and do the things he needed to do to get it sounding great. The music contractors knew that there would be an attention to the responsibility of the union requirements -- the musicians need to have a break so that they can go to the bathroom, eat, get on the phone.
Even when the composers and I didn't get along great, for whatever reasons, once I had committed myself to doing that job, I was there for them and for their music. Unfortunately, a lot of them couldn't get beyond using the orchestra as a tool to write their score. So, frequently, they really hadn't finished the writing. They needed that pressure, that deadline collision, to finally get it all out of them, to get it done. And in that environment, there isn't room for that. It's just a mad scramble to get something on tape that everybody in that control room is happy with. You've got a director and a producer and a composer in there. But I just enjoy that kind of chaos.
I had one incident where I was in tears on the podium, and I was very embarrassed about that. But God bless the orchestra: they covered for me. They could see that I was so humiliated and upset. I guess I still haven't gotten over it -- I'm getting teary-eyed right now, just thinking about it.
It was out of my control, and it was done by a composer with a colossal ego who was in a transition period. He did something that was incredibly offensive to me and hurt my feelings. I think enough of him that I believe he would not have done it if he had realized what he was creating. At the time, he was just involved in himself and not thinking. Well, that stuff happens, this business is like that. You get bumped around. And that's okay. Whatever personality conflicts I've had with some of the guys I've worked with, they don't take away from the fact that I was part of these guys' teams at a time when they were doing some very exciting things. And I'm proud of that. I'm proud that I got to participate with some of these characters at a time when they were doing very exciting things.[/I]
"There’s this misconception these days that a thematic score means a dated-sounding score. This, of course, is a cop out. There’s no reason to throw the baby out with the bathwater. The art of composing modern scores is the having the skill set to keep motifs alive while being relevant. But too many times, newer composers have no idea what fully developed themes are because they grew up on scores that are nothing more than ostinatos and “buahs.”
John Ottman.
A mí no me extraña. Es la que más me gusta de Elfman (curiosamente, también es la película de Burton que más me gusta). No sé si será su mejor partitura, pero me parece la más emblemática, la que define su sello (y el de las películas de Burton), la que más ha trascendido por sí misma.
I'd imagine the whole world was one big machine. Machines never come with any extra parts, you know. They always come with the exact amount they need. So I figured, if the entire world was one big machine, I couldn't be an extra part. I had to be here for some reason.(HUGO)
El compi Synch sigue con la saga musicalmente hablando:
De nuevo gracias a Branagh/Doyle toca revisión de BSO, hoy de Batman Returns
Cuál es el problema? Pues que aunque la he visto varias veces (cine incluida), tal vez 5-6? no se termina, aún, de impregnarse en mi memoria así que no he podido ir recordando a que escena/momento corresponde cada tema.
Brith of a Penguin sí lo recuerdo bien, ese prólogo que ya no es tan Batman sino puro Burton, en Navidades, con esa Gotham nevada, con personajes dantescos, y seguido de un Main Title revisado, de nuevo con más toques burtonianos (es decir, Elfmanianos )
Clown Attack no me va demasiado pero va perfecta para ese personaje enfermizo que es el Pinguino.
Ah! No recordaba Selina Transforms, toda la BSO tiene un aire navideño. De hecho la música de Elfman tiene mucho de navideño o estoy como una cabra?
Cat Chase y Roof Top Encounters me suenan más propia del Batman '89, tampoco sé ubicarlas..
Umbrella Source empieza casi como un Tchaikovsky y luego nos vamos a lo que debe ser ya los compases finales del film pero mola porque toda la BSO tiene detalles góticos, de esas figuras trágicas del cine de Burton, incomprendidos, monstruos...No me evocan gran cosa pero Elfman consigue una personalidad sonora asombrosa.
Ahora toca Forever...
Spank Me!/Wet Screen Kiss
"There’s this misconception these days that a thematic score means a dated-sounding score. This, of course, is a cop out. There’s no reason to throw the baby out with the bathwater. The art of composing modern scores is the having the skill set to keep motifs alive while being relevant. But too many times, newer composers have no idea what fully developed themes are because they grew up on scores that are nothing more than ostinatos and “buahs.”
John Ottman.
I'd imagine the whole world was one big machine. Machines never come with any extra parts, you know. They always come with the exact amount they need. So I figured, if the entire world was one big machine, I couldn't be an extra part. I had to be here for some reason.(HUGO)
"There’s this misconception these days that a thematic score means a dated-sounding score. This, of course, is a cop out. There’s no reason to throw the baby out with the bathwater. The art of composing modern scores is the having the skill set to keep motifs alive while being relevant. But too many times, newer composers have no idea what fully developed themes are because they grew up on scores that are nothing more than ostinatos and “buahs.”
John Ottman.
"The people who criticized lack of focus on Batman were missing the point of the character of Batman. This guy wants to remain as hidden as possible, and in the shadows as possible, and unrevealing about himself as possible, so all of those things - you know, he’s not gonna eat up screen time by these big speeches and doing dancing around the Batcave"
Tim Burton
Han homenajeado a Michael Keaton en la Universidad de Ohio, y ya sabéis las dos palabras con las que ha acabado su intervención, ¿no?
I'd imagine the whole world was one big machine. Machines never come with any extra parts, you know. They always come with the exact amount they need. So I figured, if the entire world was one big machine, I couldn't be an extra part. I had to be here for some reason.(HUGO)
¡Menudo crack !
El Joker de Nicholson me parece bueno, pero no tanto como a él.
Michael Keaton sí que sí, sí que puede aspirar al título del mejor Batman.
Me gustan mucho los de Affleck (desgraciadamente, parece que se va a quedar en una serie de promesas que no se han acabado de cumplir, combinando el héroe de cara sucia de un Bale con los aspectos atormentados y fantásticos de un Keaton) y el de Bale (un héroe con fisuras, pero héroe, no el que la gente quiere, sino el que necesita), pero lo de Keaton es que no parecía de este mundo. Siempre que veo su Batman tengo más la sensación de estar viendo una película de Drácula o del Fantasma de la Ópera que de superhéroes. Como decía alguien del Drácula de Bela Lugosi, es como alguien que haya olvidado cómo ser humano, y lleve ya dentro de sí las sombras entre las cuales durante tanto tiempo se ha escondido. Probablemente nunca hemos visto otro Batman que emocionalmente esté tan hecho fosfatina (no se me olvida que tengo Returns pendiente de revisión).
El principal problema que le veo al Batman de Burton es que tiene demasiados momentos en que se me exije la suspensión de la incredulidad. Pero, sobre todo en el tramo inicial de la película, hay tal densidad simbólica, hay imaginería de tal fuerza visual, que bien puedes hacer el esfuerzo. Creo que, como pasa con muchas películas fantásticas clásicas, es la razón de que siga conservando vigencia. La Gotham de Nolan es interesante, porque es una ciudad de ahora mismo, y lo que pasa en ella son historias de ahora mismo. Como hacía el RoboCop de Verhoven -otra película fascinante para mí-, combinaba la problemática de su tiempo (corrupción empresarial, capitalismo exacerbado, crimen disparado...) con la imaginaría del cine fantástico (los mitos de Frankenstein y el Golem, en este caso). En la Gotham de Nolan hay terrorismo internacional, demagogia y movimientos populistas, crisis económica, combinado en esta ocasión con elementos propios del cine policíaco moderno (a veces tenía la sensación de estar viendo una de James Bond, más por la ambientación y los personajes secundarios que por el protagonista). Su héroe es algo limpio en medio de un mundo sucio, que tiene que adquirir algo de la pátina de ese mundo. La Gotham de Burton tiene fuerza, porque es algo atemporal. Me hace pensar en esa Europa de Nunca Jamás de las películas de monstruos clásicos de la Universal, donde no se sabía bien en qué país y época estabas. Es un sitio extraño con un héroe igualmente extraño, una especie de Jekyll-Hyde. Nunca he podido evitar imaginar una precuela de esta película donde Bruce viajaba a Europa, entraba en contacto con una secta de vampiros y hacía una especie de pacto faustiano para adquirir sus poderes y así vengarse. Sí, ya sé . Esto no pasa en las historietas, Batman no es Spawn ni The Punisher. No tiene más superpoderes que su inteligencia, y fuerza de voluntad (y sus millones, por qué no). Valores estrictamente humanos. No es como Superman, un ente casi divino que baja del cielo para redimir a los hombres. Pero en contraposición a éso, me resulta sugerente la idea de un demonio que asciende de los infiernos para enfrentarse a ellos. Quizá porque sabe que el verdadero infierno está en la tierra.
Última edición por Jane Olsen; 04/06/2018 a las 00:14
"There is an inmense joy when you suddenly discover beauty in something that has been around you for ages".
"Waving the flag with one hand and picking pockets with the other: that's your patriotism. Well, you can have it." Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious.
"Listen to them... Children of the night! What music they make..!"
"The people who criticized lack of focus on Batman were missing the point of the character of Batman. This guy wants to remain as hidden as possible, and in the shadows as possible, and unrevealing about himself as possible, so all of those things - you know, he’s not gonna eat up screen time by these big speeches and doing dancing around the Batcave"
Tim Burton
Orígenes de Batman:
https://heromachine-art.deviantart.c...ev-5-736848794
"There is an inmense joy when you suddenly discover beauty in something that has been around you for ages".
"Waving the flag with one hand and picking pockets with the other: that's your patriotism. Well, you can have it." Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious.
"Listen to them... Children of the night! What music they make..!"
Coincido en los tres finalistas.
RIP, Sir Pratchett.
«¿Me permites una crítica constructiva a la mierda esa que has hecho?»
«En la primera reunión con él sobre el futuro de Star Wars, George se sintió traicionado» B. Iger.
«El mal no puede crear nada nuevo, sólo corromper o arruinar lo que las fuerzas del bien han inventado o construido». J.R.R. Tolkien.
«DEI kills ART. It´s ineffective and actually appears to increase prejudice, not reduce it».
«Put a chick in it and make her gay and lame». Cartman as K.K.
Para ser justos, en la entradilla del vídeo dice un par de veces que son los Batman live action.
Por lo demás, me llama la atención que en el vídeo Olivares critique la psicología "extrema" del Batman de Affleck (cuando está sustentada en un arco narrativo que precisamente consiste en que el personaje recupera sus valores), y en cambio no dice nada de la de Michael Keaton, al que elige como su favorito.
Y por cierto, se le ha olvidado Robert Lowery, que también hizo seriales en los 40. Y que Pat Hingle también continuó en las películas de Schumacher después de las de Burton.
I'd imagine the whole world was one big machine. Machines never come with any extra parts, you know. They always come with the exact amount they need. So I figured, if the entire world was one big machine, I couldn't be an extra part. I had to be here for some reason.(HUGO)
Siquiera vi el vídeo. ME limité a responder la pregunta.
RIP, Sir Pratchett.
«¿Me permites una crítica constructiva a la mierda esa que has hecho?»
«En la primera reunión con él sobre el futuro de Star Wars, George se sintió traicionado» B. Iger.
«El mal no puede crear nada nuevo, sólo corromper o arruinar lo que las fuerzas del bien han inventado o construido». J.R.R. Tolkien.
«DEI kills ART. It´s ineffective and actually appears to increase prejudice, not reduce it».
«Put a chick in it and make her gay and lame». Cartman as K.K.
I'd imagine the whole world was one big machine. Machines never come with any extra parts, you know. They always come with the exact amount they need. So I figured, if the entire world was one big machine, I couldn't be an extra part. I had to be here for some reason.(HUGO)
El titular parece apuntarse al clickbait pero el artículo trata de justificar lo que vende en el titular.
No lo comparto todo pero me parece curioso el punto de vista. Sobrevuela cierta noción de que la forma no enlaza bien con el fondo pero vaya, es curioso de leer:
Tim Burton’s Batman Films Are Far Worse Than You Remember
Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready
for the big moments.No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it
does.So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are
gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that
counts. That's when you find out who you are. You'll see what I mean.
Whistler (Buffy The Vampire Slayer - 2x21 Becoming, Part One - Joss Whedon)
En algunas cosas estoy de acuerdo (por ejemplo, es verdad que todo se ve muy pequeño, que se nota que había cuatro gatos en el plató, que Burton parece más interesado en contarte historias sobre gente inadaptada y rara, incluso con cierta tendencia sádica, incluso los buenos, que en el epos del héroe...), en otras... no tanto.
Por ejemplo, en lo de las escenas de lucha. La somanta' palos que el Joker recibe en la azotea de la catedral es de las que hacen época. Creo que nunca hasta ese momento había visto al héroe de la peli arreándole tal paliza al villano.
Última edición por Jane Olsen; 19/07/2018 a las 20:21
"There is an inmense joy when you suddenly discover beauty in something that has been around you for ages".
"Waving the flag with one hand and picking pockets with the other: that's your patriotism. Well, you can have it." Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious.
"Listen to them... Children of the night! What music they make..!"
Exacto, y es que además Batman cómo se las gasta, incluso haciendo creer a la población de Gotham que es tan peligroso como el Jóker. En la primera escena, manda a un ladrón al hospital y a otro le deja en estado de shock. Burton maneja muy bien el tema de la superstición y el temor a los sobrenatural, como el remordimiento de uno de los ladrones: "no debiste apuntar a ese niño".
"The people who criticized lack of focus on Batman were missing the point of the character of Batman. This guy wants to remain as hidden as possible, and in the shadows as possible, and unrevealing about himself as possible, so all of those things - you know, he’s not gonna eat up screen time by these big speeches and doing dancing around the Batcave"
Tim Burton
Esa presentación del personaje es brutal . Pero en esto hay que darle la razón al comentarista: Batman parece más interesado en repartir estopa a los criminales que en impedir que se cometan nuevos crímenes. Se supone que ve toda la escena y no hace nada hasta pasado un rato.
No se me olvida que tengo pendiente la revisión de Returns ...
"There is an inmense joy when you suddenly discover beauty in something that has been around you for ages".
"Waving the flag with one hand and picking pockets with the other: that's your patriotism. Well, you can have it." Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious.
"Listen to them... Children of the night! What music they make..!"
¡Al fin! En octubre se va editar en Blu-ray Batman The Animated Series al completo, con varias chuches. Imprescindible, seguramente la mejor plasmación del personaje y su mundo en medio audiovisual
I'd imagine the whole world was one big machine. Machines never come with any extra parts, you know. They always come with the exact amount they need. So I figured, if the entire world was one big machine, I couldn't be an extra part. I had to be here for some reason.(HUGO)