“Does It Come In Black?”

[swashbuckler332]

I have on occasion talked about "getting bitten by the mix bug." This is because there are some ideas I have that appear in the back of my mind and then start to bother me until I try them out. Sometimes this is for a track or two, sometimes it's for an entire mix. In cases like that, I don't always know where that process will take me, but that's

Comments

[ehowton]

GORGEOUS ARTWORK as always. I don't know how you do what you always seem to do, but you do do it well. I was initially disappointed in the first movie's score. I like to think that I am above disliking it for its subtlety, but really didn't enjoy it until after having seen the movie. For me, the perspective was illuminating. And at the risk of sounding like a gushing fanboy, it really was Will is Everything from Excelsior! Something about its placement in the overall tone was deeply satisfying. That, I believe, was the defining moment for me when I got onboard with the entire "sound" of The Dark Knight Trilogy.

Concerning track 13, I absolutely understand and appreciate your desire to aspire to that particular track, despite the fact I've never even heard it. Your ability to build upon a theme remains an inspiration to me.

[swashbuckler332]

As I said myself, I wasn't really struck with the score for Batman Begins. It was only because I was forced to look into it when preparing the original version of Gotham Avenger that I started finding things like what I called "Will Is Everything." I did think it somewhat satisfying when that turned out to be the basis for Zimmer's treatment of the character's heroism in the two sequels; that's the theme that became the basis for this album's structure.

I was playing with different titles and ended up with "Why Do We Fall?" because it causes anybody familiar with the franchise to immediately think "So we can learn to get back up again," which is exactly what that piece of music illustrates.