Danny Elfman -Big Fish

Big Fish is easily my favorite Tim Burton film, with it's beautiful storytelling and great acting, and Danny's soundtrack for the film is also one of my favorites. It's probably not the kind of soundtrack that many would fall in love with right a way, but it's one that will capture your heart and mind if you keep listening to it the whole way through.

The title track is a good representation of the whole soundtrack in my opinion -it starts very silently, and has a sort of shy and insecure feeling to it, yet there's a characteristic curiosity in it that makes you want to turn up the volume so you could hear what it's whispering to you. And what you hear is a very mystical, sad and beautiful story of old, like the one you can see in the eyes of old people. Though there's not to hear there's even more emotion in every sound that creates a very peaceful and hopeful feeling in me. And then in the very end, the uplifting small snipped is bound to get my spirits up.

Most of the tracks are very quiet and hiding behind the silence in a way, forcing you to concentrate in the things they are telling (which is really not a good thing when you're trying to study, as I found out before I started to write this). There are sad stories, mystical stories and those lovely little everyday stories that just brighten the day when you hear them. For these tracks are truly more about telling stories than bringing the movie to life -there simply is more to tell than would fit in a movie. There are some darker stories to tell as well, especially the ones concerning Spectre, with more elaborate tunes and tricks, that take you to whole nother world.

It actually feels rather silly trying to describe what the soundtrack awakens in me -it most likely will be something totally different for you. Big Fish is definitely one of Danny's most skillfully arranged soundtracks, and probably my favorite from him as well -there so much soul in the music. It makes me stop everything I'm doing, because I just want to drown myself in those fragile yet vibrant tunes that take my mind somewhere far away, every track having millions of stories that words can't describe. No, not really actual stories -more like the essence of stories, the golden standards for every feeling. Pure perfection, that's what they are.

Sandra's theme represents the movie most to me, and it also has the most references to other Danny -soundtracks (I heard at least Corpse Bride and Edward in it). The Growing Montage is filled with Nightmare-ish tunes in turn, making it probably the worst track on it's own. It's not bad, just doesn't depict that much feelings without the film material.