"Wheels in Motion" builds as the announcement of the contest sweeps the town, and then takes on different cultural bursts of energy as children mob the stores for the chocolate bars in different corners of the globe.Ī softer cue, "Charlie's Birthday Bar" helps to establish the Family Theme which is heard again in "Charlie Declines". "The Indian Palace" starts out as a source cue for a flashback sequence, but an emotional theme for Wonka is established towards the end, which will play a larger role later in the film.
If you can't hear the main theme here, then you're probably unable to hear the themes in the Spider-Man films. It's got a steady rhythm to it that keeps the machines going, as the orchestra builds with the choir giving us little bursts. This track plays over an animated sequence of the chocolate bars being created and five Golden Tickets are placed in. The remainder of the album is score, starting with the "Main Titles", which introduces us to the motives and themes heard in the film. However, if you're unprepared for them, or don't like Oingo Boingo all that much, you'll probably want to skip them. In the end, the songs are all dark, and will probably grow on you as they go. Starting with hard rock (almost like Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody"), it also has a nice Elfman edge found in older Oingo Boingo songs like "Insanity", then as the channel switches to a Beatles knock-off, the music switches styles yet again.
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"Mike Teavee" has the variety of them all, which takes place as the shrunken Mike Teavee is bounced between different channels (much like Joe Dante's Twilight Zone: The Movie segment). "Violet Beauregarde" is done in the style of a 1990s Backstreet Boys pseudo-rap, and "Veruca Salt" is like a late 1960s rock song, replete with sitar and harmonized chorus. For "Augustus Gloop", the first time we see the Oompa Loompas in action, there is a large synchronized swimming sequence which fits the tribal rhythms and big-band music present in the song. On screen, the Oompa Loompas (all played by Deep Roy) stage exorbitantly choreographed sequences, set to each song. The four Oompa Loompa songs follow, and each one is performed by Elfman singing all the parts. It's supposed to be annoying - that's the point of it, and if you didn't know that in context, you'd just think this song was a horrible way to start the album. The album opens with the aforementioned "Wonka's Welcome Song", an earworm-children's jingle that actually appears in the film as performed by an automated puppet show, which subsequently breaks down and catches on fire. But when heard in the context of the film, and the lyrics (which were adapted from Dahl's poems, with the exceptions of "Wonka's Welcome Song"), the songs suddenly work - exceptionally well. Will it work for everyone? Certainly not - on first listen, the songs are disturbingly weird, and even a bit off-putting. The songs (and yes, dear reader, there are five of them), range through a variety of styles - but all retain that vintage Oingo Boingo edge that made Elfman such a success in the first place. The score that he wrote for the film is a fantastical return to the Edward Scissorhands style of film scoring, mixed with a touch of his current "modern" sound, and a dash of To Die For. Even knowing that this was not a remake of the beloved Gene Wilder Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, but rather a new adaptation of the classic Roald Dahl novel, Elfman said that it wouldn't make a difference: "Tim and I will be crucified." But now, having seen the film and heard the soundtrack, I cannot really say that I would agree with that sentiment, and Elfman was just being cautious, with good reason.
About a year ago, when Danny Elfman attended a BMI-sponsored "Coffee Talk" event at the Los Angeles Film Festival, he gave a little insight into his current project: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
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