Word: filming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...against a red sunset. "We don't know exactly what country the ivory originated from, very sorry," says company accountant Miyako Yoshida. Last year the company imported 4.5 tons of ivory from Singapore, of which 2.5 tons went for making piano keys. Once Yoshida and a customer saw a film in which an elephant was shot. She said they covered their eyes in horror...
...MOTION PICTURE SCORE (Warner Bros.); PRINCE: BATMAN MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK (Warner Bros.). Two Batman albums? If this seems like Cowled Crusader overkill, be advised that these records bear absolutely no resemblance to each other: Prince's Batman is a phantasmagorical reinterpretation of the movie; Elfman's score is the film's actual symphonic underpinning...
...Prince material is, well, batty. Several of his songs appear in the film, but Prince uses the album to retell the story and recast himself as the Dark Knight's alter ego. If that seems weird, no one seems bothered. The Batman sound track hit No. 1 on the Billboard chart, and contains some of Prince's wildest and most soulful work since Purple Rain...
Elfman's score not only matches Prince's but surpasses his with its dark chords and swooping orchestral romanticism. Elfman's Batman sets a new standard for film scores. Only a superhero could do better...
Much too late the film touches on Jack's desire for the extreme, his love for jazz's fire and passion. At the end we are unsatisfied with the resolution of Jack's (and Suzie's) hope for sublimity while living in the world of the mundane...