Promised Land

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Danny Elfman's full deck

Variety mem-publish tulisan Jon Burlingame mengenai Danny Elfman, berikut ini kutipannya:

Danny Elfman is finishing his busiest year ever, with no fewer than six films in the marketplace, including two for longtime collaborator Tim Burton ("Dark Shadows," "Frankenweenie") and "Men in Black 3" for Barry Sonnenfeld.

Three more have arrived in time for awards season: "Hitchcock," Sacha Gervasi's offbeat making-of "Psycho" drama; "Silver Linings Playbook" for director David O. Russell; and "Promised Land" for another regular collaborator, Gus Van Sant (whose "Milk" and "Good Will Hunting" earned Elfman score Oscar noms).

As for "Promised Land," Elfman's initial thought was "Midwest, a simple story, country folks, I'll use fiddles and guitars." But Van Sant's attitude about music, Elfman says, is always, "let's try something completely different." He saw all the marimbas in Elfman's studio and so marimba wound up as a key musical component.

As it turns out, strings, marimba, guitar (and sometimes human voice) predominate.

"Gus is fearless," Elfman says. "He just likes to try things, and that makes it fun for me. What is or isn't right can be a subjective thing. With 'Promised Land,' it was intimate and small -- a chamber orchestra."

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Promised Land For Your Consideration

Beberapa hari yang lalu, Focus Features mempromosikan film Promised Land untuk Academy Awards di situsnya. Musik latar belakangnya adalah lagu Snake Eyes dan score dari Danny Elfman. Ada 13 score tracks yang dapat di-downlo.. didengarkan di situs promo tersebut.

Promised Land adalah film terbaru Gus van Sant yang akan dirilis tanggal 28 Desember 2012. Film ini dibintangi oleh antara lain Matt Damon, Frances McDormand, dan John Krasinski. Cek situs promonya di sini.

Danny Elfman: 'My Constant Worry Is That I'll Run Out of Ideas' (Q&A)

Situs The Hollywood Reporter mewawancarai Danny Elfman, berikut ini kutipannya:

The Hollywood Reporter: How did you score seven films in about a year's time? 

Danny Elfman: Eight. Dark Shadows, Men in Black 3,Frankenweenie, Silver Linings Playbook, Promised Land,Hitchcock, Oz, Epic. I've never had a year like this. It's a blur. Ripping myself out of one and hurtling into another is like switching alternate universes, a ripping slash.

THR: What was Russell like on Silver Linings Playbook?

Elfman: I was apprehensive because I have a real fear of romantic comedy. It's the one genre I go out of my way to never do because I don't have a feel for it. I see very few comedies, even. But this was just strange enough, and I loved the chemistry between Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence. I thought it'd be easy, since there isn't that much music. It was far from easy, because David is such a character. He tortured me endlessly but never stopped amusing me. The trick with David is to be very patient, just kick back and try to enjoy the Russell Experience. Really worthwhile.

THR: You imagined yourself into composer Bernard Herrmann's head for Gus Van Sant's Psycho remake. What was it like to score Hitchcock?

Elfman: The main thing I wanted to know from Sacha was that he didn't want to do a Herrmann-esque score, a mock Psycho. The story is a romance between Alfred and Alma Hitchcock. It's a fairly romantic score, and it gets a little darker where Hitchcock is in the world of Ed Gein [the killer who inspired Psycho], talking to him. I found myself occasionally doing Herrmann-esque things but not intentionally. He's so much part of my DNA, there's moments where, yeah, there's a bit of an homage there, but it's just me.

THR: Why did you do Promised Land? Was it fun because Van Sant likes to let people take big risks?

Elfman: There's so many things fun about working with him, but that's an important one. He actually forces me to take risks. I start with ideas, and he'll say, "Let's try completely opposite stuff and see what happens." I just start playing Gus pieces I'm writing. For Promised Land, I'm thinking, "OK, guitars -- a very simple Americana score." Gus was like, "Why don't we do the whole thing on marimbas?" He's just a pure pleasure to work with.

THR: What makes music funny?

Elfman: I don't know.

THR: Do you have a "funny" button on your console?

Elfman: I wish. On Oz just yesterday, I was playing some music for [director] Sam Raimi, and he was laughing out loud. And what I did that was so funny in this particular moment was a pause. What's usually funny in music is timing. When I'm making Sam laugh effectively, which I've been doing quite a bit of this week, it's because I'm finding the timing of a scene, putting in accents and pauses in very specific moments. It's funny without trying to be.

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Promised Land

Kraft-Engel Management mengumumkan dua proyek baru untuk Danny Elfman yaitu Promised Land dan Hitchcock. Promised Land adalah film terbaru Gus van Sant yang dibintangi oleh antara lain Matt Damon dan Frances McDormand. Film ini akan dirilis secara terbatas di Amerika pada tanggal 28 Desember 2012 agar bisa masuk dalam berbagai penghargaan film.

Film ini menjadi film keenam kerja sama Gus van Sant dengan Danny Elfman, sebelumnya mereka bekerja sama di To Die For (1995), Good Will Hunting (1997), Psycho (1998), Milk (2008), dan Restless (2011). Good Will Hunting dan Milk mendapatkan nominasi Academy Awards untuk best score. Untuk film Psycho, Danny Elfman bersama Steve Bartek kebayakan hanya mengaransemen musik asli karya Bernard Herrmann namun ada juga musik orisinal buatan Elfman berdasarkan score asli Psycho.

Urutan rilis film-film Danny Elfman menjadi sebagai berikut: Frankenweenie (25 September 2012), Silver Linings Playbook (21 November 2012), Oz: The Great and Powerful (8 Maret 2013), Promised Land (28 Desember 2012), Hitchcock (8 Februari 2013), dan Epic (17 Mei 2013).