Suicide Squad: General Discussion and Speculation - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Part 34

[Chip Chipperson]

well in that case, you're a good guy Henry and I hope they give you more material to work with this time around. I enjoyed you in The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

Squad songs: Talking music with Suicide Squad composer Steven Price.

http://www.dccomics.com/blog/2016/08/18/squad-songs-talking-music-with-suicide-squad-composer-steven-price?sf33733146=1

Was Suicide Squad the first comic book movie you’d scored, or have you done others prior to this?

It was indeed my first superhero score, so it was an exciting challenge. I read and loved a lot of comics when I was a kid, so the idea of working on a movie with some of these characters was something that was always in the back of my mind… I was always hoping I’d get the opportunity.

Do you have a favorite super hero score? Did you look to any prior scores as influences here, or did you try to approach this fresh?

When it comes to favourites, obviously the classics are still as exciting now as they ever were. Things such as John Williams’ original Superman theme, for example. For this film though, the director David Ayer had such a singular vision that I found my job was to really try to merge my music with these very specific visuals and characters, and not to carry too much baggage with me from the intimidating canon of superhero music.

Suicide Squad is about a team of super-villains, but for the most part the score sounds really motivating and inspiring. Was that deliberate? Would you call the Squad members heroes?

The key to the score for me came out of an early conversation with David. He described all of the villains who become the Suicide Squad as essentially outsiders… they've all been doing their own variety of bad things, but have never really had anywhere they truly fit in. The Squad is the first home they have ever really had, and, working together, they become more than the sum of their parts. So musically, there was a journey there, and I felt that journey allowed them to earn the more heroic music that features towards the end of the movie. Most of the major characters have their own themes, and they combine in various ways as the relationships develop. It was a lot of fun to work out.

The songs that accompany moments between the Joker and Harley Quinn really stood out to me because they’re unnerving, but there’s also a real tenderness under them. Was that hard to achieve? How do you go about blending such disparate themes?

Writing for Harley and the Joker was one of my favourite bits of the project. The performances of Margot Robbie and Jared Leto were so vivid and interesting that they let me really go for this feeling of unsettling, doomed romance. Their music goes from really small, tense plucks on a really tightly wound string to full on operatic outbursts, and the performances meant you could switch between the extremes in the blink of an eye.

The movie’s primary theme, “Task Force X,” seems to utilize a lot of rock elements. Did you know that rock would be a big part of the Suicide Squad soundtrack going in?

Although I read an early version of the script very early on in the process, it was when I went to Toronto to see some early footage that the sound of the score started to form in my mind. The world that David and his collaborators were building had such a reality to it that it seemed crazy to try to stick with purely traditional orchestral instruments. The score couldn’t be neat and tidy. I ended up fusing all manner of things, attempting to let the rough edges show like the characters themselves, and that combination gradually became the sound of Suicide Squad. There was a lot of experimentation along the way, and in the end the music featured not only the orchestral players, but also guitars, synths, drums, duduks, marxophones, and a team of whistlers!

Do you have a favorite Squad member?

I enjoyed writing for all of the Squad members, but I particularly loved working with Deadshot and Diablo. With Deadshot, his theme needed to work for everything from his yearning for his daughter to the moments when he’s showing the Squad just how remarkably skilled he is, so that was a big challenge to do. And I loved Diablo… his whole backstory lent a real weight and soul to the story.

And finally, Suicide Squad has a really bright and loud color scheme. What colors would you use to describe your score?

When I was playing demos of the score cues to David, the phrase that would come up most often would be “more neon!” Basically the score always needed some extreme layer to make it fit into this world that the filmmakers were creating. So, to answer your question, I would describe the score as a whole wide range of colours, but definitely neon!

 

[SuperAl]

hmm..

Mark Hughes ‏@markhughesfilms 49m49 minutes ago Los Angeles, CA
Someone can tell the #SuperheroHype mods that no, I don't have "rose colored lenses," I have fact-colored, reality-colored lenses.

Mark Hughes ‏@markhughesfilms 48m48 minutes ago Los Angeles, CA
My artistic assessments are as "biased" as anyone's opinions. My math ISN'T, & if you can't tell difference, I don't take you seriously


Mark Hughes ‏@markhughesfilms 47m47 minutes ago Los Angeles, CA
The notion that having inside sources means my views are tainted & favor those sources is as inane a claim/accusation as I've heard.

Mark Hughes ‏@markhughesfilms 45m45 minutes ago Los Angeles, CA
And deny it all you want, but yeah if you claim having connections & sources makes me change my writing, you're questioning my integrity...

Mark Hughes ‏@markhughesfilms 7m7 minutes ago Los Angeles, CA
I appreciate folks want to read my articles, but pasting my entire interviews on message boards is copyright infringement & has to stop

Mark Hughes ‏@markhughesfilms 6m6 minutes ago Los Angeles, CA
I don't care what issues you have w/a particular outlet or its policies, this is my work & my readership, so you can't violate copyright.

Mark Hughes ‏@markhughesfilms 4m4 minutes ago Los Angeles, CA
I'm talking a/b #SuperheroHype message boards where I find entire articles or interviews pasted so folks avoid going to my articles @ Forbes

Mark Hughes ‏@markhughesfilms 4m4 minutes ago Los Angeles, CA
Again, glad people want to read it, but if you want to read & like it then please go to my articles. Stop pasting them elsewhere like that.

lol maybe if forbes would stop making me disable adblocker id go to the actual site

 

[DarknessOfDeath]

I think Cavill said that he reads message boards.

And Margot Robbie

 

[KillerMcQueen]

I think Cavill said that he reads message boards.

What we don't realize is that he posts here regularly under various troll accounts.

 

[Chip Chipperson]

henry is really zryson, who would've thought

 

[Greenlite]

Squad songs: Talking music with Suicide Squad composer Steven Price.

http://www.dccomics.com/blog/2016/08/18/squad-songs-talking-music-with-suicide-squad-composer-steven-price?sf33733146=1

I really like the SS soundtrack and it's one of the real strength of DC films

This soundtrack sounds like a hybrid of 90s action movie+Iron Man, set in the 90s.

 

[Greenlite]

I'm sure Chris Nolan is Nextnolan22...can anyone elaborate on how he got caught for the stuff he did during comic con...?? I was reading all his reports on "batman standing on the rooftop!!!" 2014 updates, while doing my thing in the toilet first thing in the morning. Good times.

 

[Golgo-13]

I actually fell asleep on this.

What happened to the abusive guard?

 

[Guts]

I'm sure Chris Nolan is Nextnolan22...can anyone elaborate on how he got caught for the stuff he did during comic con...?? I was reading all his reports on "batman standing on the rooftop!!!" 2014 updates, while doing my thing in the toilet first thing in the morning. Good times.

Nextnolan22 also made the crowd at hall h shout "SHAZAM" when Dwayne Johnson walked in the room.

 

[Greenlite]

I actually fell asleep on this.

What happened to the abusive guard?

There's a post credit scene where they show him putting on the Deathstroke mask

 

[Lobo]

Nextnolan22 also made the crowd at hall h shout "SHAZAM" when Dwayne Johnson walked in the room.

Yes, and he was also at Wrestlemania, and personally started every chant we heard, and met everyone at Comic Con and was at every panel simultaneously.

 

[brandeezy89]

Henry Cavill is Shoeless Joe

 

[BlueLanternKal]

Spoiler

So, the hunt for Cavill begins...

 

[Sleiek]

It's Jokesonm3

 

[BlueLanternKal]

That actually makes more sense than it should.

 

[Sleiek]

Yeah. I mean he was super excited before the BvS release, then he became upset because his scenes were cut out and after a while he is excited for JL again because I am guessing they are giving him an awesome role. Gotta be him.

 

[BlueLanternKal]

jokesonm3 is Henry Cavill confirmed.

 

[DarknessOfDeath]

... What? What's going on here?

 

[LoganGambit87]

you all know Henry is Tobias

 

[HypRQ]

I have question about suicide squad plot. Spoiler alert for those that haven't seen the movie yet.

So, where were Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash and Aquaman when Enchatress was about to exterminate human kind?? I mean, it kinda makes sense that Batman didn't come since the whole thing looked like Man of Steel all over again so it might've been too triggering for him, but how about others??

 

[NotNickFury]

I have question about suicide squad plot. Spoiler alert for those that haven't seen the movie yet.

So, where were Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash and Aquaman when Enchatress was about to exterminate human kind?? I mean, it kinda makes sense that Batman didn't come since the whole thing looked like Man of Steel all over again so it might've been too triggering for him, but how about others??

Probably the same reason you don't see the majority of the Avengers or Marvel's roster in Winter Soldier despite SHIELD being compromised: it's just something you go with since they're standalone movies, even though there's no logical reason why they wouldn't show up to help.

 

[matt47]

Probably the same reason you don't see the majority of the Avengers or Marvel's roster in Winter Soldier despite SHIELD being compromised: it's just something you go with since they're standalone movies, even though there's no logical reason why they wouldn't show up to help.

Eh, that's lazy. In this day and age of universe building movies you'd think they'd be on top of this.

 

[Bagide]

I have question about suicide squad plot. Spoiler alert for those that haven't seen the movie yet.

So, where were Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash and Aquaman when Enchatress was about to exterminate human kind?? I mean, it kinda makes sense that Batman didn't come since the whole thing looked like Man of Steel all over again so it might've been too triggering for him, but how about others??

Wasn't the Enchantress threat a day old threat? Plus the government had said it was a military operation.

 

[Guts]

I have question about suicide squad plot. Spoiler alert for those that haven't seen the movie yet.

So, where were Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash and Aquaman when Enchatress was about to exterminate human kind?? I mean, it kinda makes sense that Batman didn't come since the whole thing looked like Man of Steel all over again so it might've been too triggering for him, but how about others??

Rick did tell the Squad that it was a terrorist attack on Midway and there is a good chance that the media was telling the public the same thing. Maybe Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, and Aquaman thought that the military could handle it. Also the Squad didn't see the floating ring of debris and lightning coming out of the train station until they were in the city, because unlike the world engine it's not high above the buildings and Enchantress was mostly using it to empower herself to make more of those eye creatures and when she did use it as a weapon the Squad was in the same room with her and they stopped her in shortly after.