Raimi's lost SPIDER-MAN score!

[thehefner]

So did you know that Danny Elfman and Sam Raimi had a huge falling out during the making of SPIDER-MAN 2? As I understand it, Raimi hated Elfman's score, and according to Elfman, Sam essentially just wanted to replicate the first SPIDER-MAN soundtrack over again. By the end, their long-time friendship/partnership was over, with Elfman saying that Raimi is a pod person of his former self.

Well now someone has posted videos of Elfman's original, rejected score synced up with the appropriate scenes from SPIDER-MAN 2. The first such video is of the legendary train sequence, which really might be one of my favorite scenes from a movie ever (I even get choked up at the seriously obvious Christ imagery, right down to the "spear" wound, although I could really live without the goddamn kids at the end).

Also, goddamn, but is or is not Doctor Octopus utterly and thoroughly badass? stubbleupdate on scans_daily recently said, " If the next big Marvel film was one hour and forty five minutes of Alfred Molina as Doc Ock doing his laundry, washing dishes, or any other mundane chores with his tentacles, I would pay cash money to watch it. Twice. I've just had a thought. Doc Ock could play Wii Tennis against himself." Word to that.

Otto didn't die at the end. His arms totally pulled him out and resussciated him, then he went into hiding to avoid any involvement in SPIDER-MAN 3. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

But yeah, back to the soundtrack... watch and compare for yourself.

I rather dig that soundtrack if only because that's the first time in a while that I've heard a Danny Elfman score that sounds like Danny Elfman. I look forward to seeing/hearing the rest.

As a bonus, courtesy of benchilada I bring you the greatest photo ever taken.