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<P><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2>S. Alexander Reed<SPAN
class=156050812-11082010> writes: "</SPAN>Zimmer's score is indeed
clever. I always enjoyed his two note minor third motive in the Batman Begins
score, which seem quite literally to come across as the "beginning" of Elfman's
1989 Batman theme (which, by the way, is awfully close to Amy Beach's Gaelic
Symphony, isn't it?).<SPAN
class=156050812-11082010>"</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
<P></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class=921465207-11082010><FONT face=Arial><FONT
color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN class=156050812-11082010>Absolutely. It
may also be a play on the Neal Hefti na-na na-na na-na na-na (forgive me!) theme
tune to the 1960s _Batman_ TV series, which Elfman himself pastiches for _Men in
Black_. And, if memory serves, isn't the point at which Nolan's Batman
'becomes' Batman in _Batman Begins_ (the moment he slays Ducard and finally
embraces his fate by killing his replacement father figure) the point at
which Zimmer finally composes out the harmonic
implication of the minor third motif threatened right from the starrt,
i.e. i to VI? </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN class=921465207-11082010><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
size=2><SPAN class=156050812-11082010>Beginning, becoming, begat,
bat. Or maybe plain
batty.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=921465207-11082010><FONT face=Arial><FONT
color=#0000ff><FONT size=2>Regards</FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
class=921465207-11082010>Nick Reyland</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
class=921465207-11082010>Dr Nicholas Reyland</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
class=921465207-11082010>Music : Film Studies : Media, Culture and
Communications</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
class=921465207-11082010>Keele University</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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href="mailto:n.w.reyland@keele.ac.uk">n.w.reyland@keele.ac.uk</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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