Shumi-Shumi Man VI Soundtrack
As with all movies, Shumi-Shumi Man VI needed music to go along with the action conveyed on screen. It was the great film composer Bernard Hermann (Psycho, The Day the Earth Stood Still, et. al.)who once said...
"Music on the screen can seek out and intensify the inner thoughts of the characters. It can invest a scene with terror, grandeur, gaiety, or misery. It can propel a narrative swiftly foreward, or slow it down. It often lifts more dialogue into the realm of poetry. Finally, it is the communicating link betweek screen and the audience, reaching out and enveloping all into one single experience."
As Music Supervisor of the film, I got the fairly daunting challenge of scoring the film. I had the options: Use pre-existing music (Hey, it worked for Kubrick) or write and perform an original score. The latter, while it would have resulted in a spiffier film, is just way to much work. So pre-existing music it was. Then came the hard part. Many many centuries worth of music to chose from. In the end, It came down to a few choices.
One musical choice was given from the beginning. The script, from Draft 1, has featured MacAfee doing the Can-Can. It was only logical to use the "Overture" from Jacques Offenbach's opera Orphee aux Enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld). That piece is the classic and ultimate Can-Can song. Everyone associates the two together. So Orpheus was settled on. That left the Opening Titles.
I choose Franz Schubert's Symphony Number 8 in B minor, D.759, "Unfinished", Movement 1, Allegro moderato, for the Opening and Closing Titles. It just works so well for the Opening, the way it's spaced. It's perfect. And then the end of the movement contains a very harsh reprise of the opening theme that's perfect for playing over MacAfee walking away. And then the end credits would include the opening theme again.
But that still leaves some incidental music to happen during the film. Alot of that is still up in the air. I've considered using Mars, the Bringer of War from Gustav Holst's The Planets for Pee's destruction. There's still quite a bit of work in store for me.
Will Shumi-Shumi Man VI: The Album ever be released? I haven't a clue. It all depends on whether or not I think anyone would ever want it. If I get any response in the matter, then I'll get off my lazy butt and get a soundtrack released. But until then, it's not right up there on my list of things to do. Would anyone want the soundtrack? Is it worth my time and money? Let me know!
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