What does Marvel know that Warner Bros. doesn’t?
I recently explained why I thought Marvel was having such success creating “Superman” movies using Captain America, and there was some good discussion in the comments about how each series treated its lead characters. One comment stood out, and I thought it was worth sharing formally.
Ryan Thompson is a Ph.D candidate in Musicology at the University of Minnesota, where he specializes in ludomusicology, the study of game audio and the culture that surrounds it. He jumped into the comments of the story to explore how these movies explore their characters through music, and what that music says about each hero.
How music makes Captain America a hero and Superman a mope
10 comments
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The Man of Steel soundtrack is one of the most heroic movie soundtracks I’ve ever heard though, so…
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This Musicology PhD “candidate” was right but he missed the point as well. MoS wasn’t a Superman movie per se, it’s a movie about becoming Superman. Zimmer’s score captured that journey. The piano intro was appropriately introspective (like Clark), while the brooding percussion leading to the full orchestra gives a sense of despair leading hope (a major theme of MoS).
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Can someone write an article about “What does article writers know about music that composers don’t, and why do they constantly bash DC any moment they get?”
Zimmer’s music is full of emotions and has stories to tell.
Man of Steel’s score alone makes everything the MCU did… kinda meh and not memorable at all. -
Man of Steel is one of my favorite superhero soundtracks ever. Does it make me think of Superman? Yes. Is it epic and iconic? Yes. The piano solo totally captures his inner Smallville with humility and compassion to the rapid tempo and volume upswing to represent the awe at his limitless power. It totally merges both parts of Clark perfectly to form a great Superman track that I love playing next to John Williams’ old school one.
The only iconic score MCU has done has been the Avengers. You don’t need a music professor to know, (laughing on inside), that most MCU soundtracks sound eerily familiar to 90’s action movie trope. Yes, It’s frickin cookie cutter Marvel, so cut it out!
X-men rather actually has done a better job with their scores. X-Men First Class and Days of Future Past have some AMAZING tracks.
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The MOS soundtrack is amazing. More Marvel pandering here. I love how we continue to see pro-MCU articles that try to cut down DCEU verses acknowledging the issues with the MCU.
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Notice how active these marvel-fanboy-bloggers got after that video came out about Marvel movies looking ugly ? :D Pathetic. If you dare saying anything bad, they’ll gang up on you.
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You know what? yeah, now that you mentioned it. Thats the second time this person wrote an article like this in what? weeks?
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One DC soundtrack is better than all of the Marvel soundtracks combined. Music is definitely a DC strong point.
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Superhero News – We fucking hate DC. This should be their new tag line.
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Jeez, this guy really doesn’t like Superman. I love the Hans Zimmer score, and Man of Steel.
