Free ‘Alice’ and Tim Burton’s musical numbers
The availability of “Alice’s Theme” from ‘Alice in Wonderland’ as a free download inspires a post that flashes back to Burton’s other musical numbers.
Fans of the team-ups of director Tim Burton and composer Danny Elfman will leap on Amazon’s free download of “Alice’s Theme,” a five-minute track from their new Alice in Wonderland film, which opens tomorrow. Alas, spooky choirs and bouncy melodies affirms College Humor’s deadly parody of Tim Burton’s Secret Formula. Though some of Elfman’s scores for Burton suffer from a being “samey,” some of the director’s most inventive scenes involve incongruous musical numbers.
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure: “Tequila”
Burton’s 1985 debut feature has many amusing moments, but the part that everybody remembers is Pee Wee Herman (Paul Reubens) getting down in a biker bar to the Champs’ “Tequila,” which starts in this clip around 2:30. You wouldn’t call his dancing “good,” but there’s something engaging about it — it inspires geeky dancers to imitate it if they ever hear it at wedding receptions or frat parties. The suspense building up to the scene, and the unlikely combination of Pee Wee’s childish persona and the boozy surf music, really make it irresistible. (The film also marked the first collaboration between Burton and Elfman.)