A Musical Note: The Silver Surfer's Theme (Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer)
Added 2019-01-06 20:12:48 +0000 UTCThe two Fantastic Four movies in 2005 and 2007 were, in my opinion, well done, except for the glaring and inexplicable failure to understand how to depict Doctor Doom that severely damaged both movies (the second slightly less than the first, since Doom was the primary adversary in the first movie). They also included some excellent music, of which the Silver Surfer's theme was one of the best.
I often compose soundtracks when I write, and one of the keys for me really grasping a new character is often finding a piece of music that somehow speaks to me as belonging to that character. The Silver Surfer, then, became the theme for the enigmatic character Orphan in Grand Central Arena and sequels.
There are some parallels between the Surfer and Orphan, though I wasn't consciously thinking of those when I first associated the music with the character. Both of them are isolated, separated from those who were once their people by a choice they made that has put them forever outside of their former people. Both are beings who have learned caution about trust. Both of them are, from the point of view of their peers, strange, powerful, and dangerous to deal with -- and at the same time dangerous to ignore. Both of them have a certain sympathetic pathos about them. And both, as it develops, are tools or servants of something else far, far more powerful than they, and both eventually turn against their masters in favor of the humans who have befriended them.
I always play this theme a couple of times before I start writing with Orphan; the sad yet dramatic theme always helps me find his spirit.
I hope you enjoy it as well.
