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Elfman has said he first became interested in film music upon seeing The Day the Earth Stood Still, and he paid homage to that score in his music for Mars Attacks!
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Elfman immediately developed a rapport with Burton and has gone on to score all but two of Burton's major studio releases: Ed Wood which was under production while Elfman and Burton were having a fight, and Sweeney Todd.
Burton has said of his relationship with Elfman: " We don't even have to talk about the music.
Burton is known for using recurring collaborators on his works ; among them are Johnny Depp, who has become a close friend of Burton since their first film together ; musician Danny Elfman, who has composed scores for all but five of the films Burton has directed and / or produced ; and domestic partner Helena Bonham Carter.
Since then, Elfman has scored every film that Tim Burton has directed except for Ed Wood ( because of a falling out that they had ) and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street because the music was based on Stephen Sondheim's musical.
From 1976 it was led by songwriter / vocalist Danny Elfman, who has since achieved success as a composer for film and television.
Dead Man's Party has been " Elfo-Approved " ( appreciated and supported by Richard Elfman ), are joined onstage by former Oingo Boingo members ( notably Johnny Hernandez and Steve Bartek ), and own one of Oingo Boingo's balaphones.
The film's soundtrack has also become popular, and its theme song was eventually reused by Danny Elfman, who rearranged it as The Dilbert Zone for use as the theme for the television series Dilbert.
Film composer Danny Elfman has made great use of this technique, which needs to be performed in a more " transparent " orchestral setting to be heard.
Author Kurt Vonnegut, has a cameo as himself, as does the band Oingo Boingo, whose frontman Danny Elfman composed the score for the film.
On songs such as " Little Girls " and " Capitalism ", Elfman has since stated that his intentions were to write in jest from the perspective of various disputable characters, adding he was " out to offend everybody ".
Apart from performing as a live instrumentalist, Fitzgerald has also worked as a composer and songwriter, having worked with a wide range of musicians including Dweezil Zappa and Danny Elfman, and has written songs for the group No Doubt, as well as for the movie School of Rock.
Like his former bandmate Danny Elfman, Gibbs has embarked on a life of scoring movies and television shows.
Elfman has had film roles in Mercury Rising, Collateral, Godzilla and Armageddon, and smaller parts in The Mod Squad, Keeping the Faith, and Gone in 60 Seconds.
Elfman and said
Elfman stated, " He just laughed, and said, ' Sit.
In early 2007, Danny Elfman said there would not be a reunion.
Claypool said the tour was " a traveling, oversized sock-puppet show spawned by the characters of a Tobe Hooper film and scored by Danny Elfman on bad acid.
Elfman said of his score, " Again old-fashioned and melodramatic, but in a way that I'm crazy about.
Elfman and first
Danny Elfman composed his first score for the film and played the role of Satan.
In 1985, Tim Burton and Paul Reubens invited Elfman to write the score for their first feature film, Pee-wee's Big Adventure.
Elfman was apprehensive at first because of his lack of formal training, but with orchestration assistance from Oingo Boingo guitarist and arranger Steve Bartek, he achieved his goal of emulating the mood of such composers as Nino Rota and Bernard Herrmann.
In the booklet for the first volume of Music for a Darkened Theatre, Elfman described the first time he heard his music played by a full orchestra as one of the most thrilling experiences of his life.
Elfman cited his first time noticing film music being when he heard Bernard Hermann's score to The Day the Earth Stood Still as an eleven-year-old and being a fan of film music since then.
The first release was officially a Danny Elfman solo record in 1984 ( titled So-Lo ); it was actually a group effort released under Elfman's name.
It stars Jenna Elfman and Thomas Gibson as Dharma and Greg Montgomery, a couple who married on their first date despite being complete opposites.
Directed by Richard Elfman, who co-wrote the film with fellow Mystic Knights member Matthew Bright, it was the first film scored by his brother Danny Elfman.
Forbidden Zone was the first film scored by Danny Elfman, who would eventually score, among other films, Batman, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
He recently starred opposite Jenna Elfman in Accidentally on Purpose, his first sitcom.
She conducted two pieces, the Simpsons Theme by Danny Elfman, and the William Tell Overture by Rossini, the latter for the first time.
This is also notable as the first ( and until Restless in 2011 only ) unreleased Danny Elfman film score.
Their first child, son Story Elias Elfman, was born on July 23, 2007.
Elfman and became
Jenna Elfman was raised Catholic, and Bodhi introduced her to Scientology ; she became a Scientologist after they were married.
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Eric Elfman is an American writer interested in UFOs and paranormal events.
Elfman and film
Daniel Robert " Danny " Elfman ( born May 29, 1953 ) is an American composer, best known for scoring music for television and film and creating The Simpsons main title theme as well as the 1989 Batman movie theme.
He made his film scoring début in 1980 for the film Forbidden Zone directed by his older brother Richard Elfman.
Burton, a fan of the eccentric musical group Oingo Boingo, asked songwriter Danny Elfman to provide the music for the film.
When the group began to move away from its cabaret style towards a more pop / rock format, Richard Elfman made a film based on the band's stage performance, Forbidden Zone, which was released in 1980 and filmed in black and white with a cast mostly made up of band members and friends.
Following the band's dissolution, frontman Danny Elfman turned full-time to writing film scores, having composed several scores through the 1980s and early 1990s while the band was active.
Fellow film composer Danny Elfman adapted Herrmann's music for Psycho for use in director Gus Van Sant's 1998 remake and borrowed from Herrmann's " Mountaintop / Sunrise " theme, from Journey to the Center of the Earth, for his main Batman theme.
Danny Elfman composed the main theme, and John Debney composed the score for the film.
The film is also the fourth feature collaboration between Burton and film score composer Danny Elfman.
Edward Scissorhands is the fourth feature film collaboration between director Tim Burton and composer Danny Elfman.
( 1996 ), another film of Burton's with music composed by Elfman.
On November 29, 2003, she married the film composer and former Oingo Boingo frontman Danny Elfman.
A clip in the deleted-scenes featurette on the Looney Tunes: Back in Action DVD features Gossamer being harassed by Kate Houghton ( Jenna Elfman ), suggesting that Gossamer was planned to make an appearance in the film, but it was deleted.
Danny Elfman wrote the film score and provided the singing voice of Jack, as well as other minor characters.
McDowell and Burton experienced creative differences, which convinced Burton to make the film as a musical with lyrics and compositions by frequent collaborator Danny Elfman.
In addition, some theme music uses orchestra scores or original music set mood for the show, such as the Batman: The Animated Series theme song, which was drawn from the theme for the 1989 Batman film created by Danny Elfman and sets the mood for cartoon.
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