Now, trying to figure out a piece of music on a plane isn’t easy because people kind of frown upon a passenger periodically busting out a melody like some character on Glee. Luckily, Elfman had his recorder on him, and planes are known to come with bathrooms. He’d get up, go and hum a riff or two in the loo, and return to his seat only to repeat the process after 10 minutes or so.
Of course, after doing this half a dozen times, it’s understandable that people would start wondering whether this guy was shitting himself senseless thanks to some questionable London cuisine or, more likely at the time, doing so much blow that the bathroom could be deemed a health hazard. Whether they believed his story probably doesn’t matter much, as we’re sure a couple of passengers were just really relieved when the plane finally landed so they could get away from Funny Bathroom Man and also immediately tell other people about it because this was before the internet
As great as this story is, it’s kind of sad that by the time his score hit the screen, Elfman wasn’t too happy with how the music was transferred to the film. According to him, the dubbing was wonky and sounded completely off. Still, it’s a pretty iconic piece of cinema scoring and one of the most recognizable theme songs today. Even more impressive when you know that it was composed somewhere 35,000 feet up in the sky, among a group of terrified travelers.
Zanandi doesn’t write “Batman” comics, but she does write other comics. Not about bats. Follow her on Twitter.
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