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.

Comments

[demonfafa.livejournal.com]

hah hah. How do you kno benchilada? He posts regularly on randompictures. He seems like the kind of guy I'd like to hang with IRL.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Agreed, and I'm not even official friends with him on LJ nor IRL. He's a regular on scans_daily and my friend kali921's LJ, plus another friend of mine, interdisciple, has pimped his LJ in the past. I probably should just go and add him one of these days, but until then, I'm content to lurk.

Definitely Elfman.

[american-arcane.livejournal.com]

Love his stuff... and that score for that scene is most certainly superb.

Though I do have issues with the scene itself. Love the fight. But I have issues with two things. The first (and most important) being that there's way too much time with Spiderman out of his mask. The second (and this is mostly just me being picky) is that I don't care how strong he is, his arms would have been ripped out of his sockets and his bones broken. Actually, no they wouldn't have--because he would have shattered his legs first.

He's Spiderman, not Wolverine. He breaks. Sure he heals quickly, but not that quickly.

I've come to terms with what was my third complaint about this scene: that it took place on the elevated rail and not the subway.

And, yeah, Doc Ock was done very well. Molina was fantastic. :)

[jackolantern.livejournal.com]

The ducklings really make the picture.

[nymphgalatea.livejournal.com]

I believe the SpiderPensioner picture could and should be used as alternative therapy for depression. Screw Prozac, screw Valium, just give the patient a copy of this and watch them giggle like a toddler for the next few days!

(And I've been looking at it for ten minutes and only just realised that it's not a t-shirt. The guy actually painted his hairy chest! Somehow this only makes it more awesome. I want this guy to be my grandpa)

[swimpenguin.livejournal.com]

A bit earlier tonight, I saw Alfred Molina as Sherlock Holmes and Craig Ferguson as Jessica Fletcher (Murder She Wrote Angela Lansbury character). So wonderful.