Musical Storytelling in "Batman" | Composer Toolbox: Episode 11 

The entire score is almost a masterful set of theme and variations. Amazing.

🙏 Coolness to the max! 🥰

Great analysis as always! Those small details are the reason why we love Danny Elfman!

The love theme opens with the same phrase (e.g. at 12:38) as the Raiders of the Lost Ark theme.

Amazing! Love the attention to detail in your analysis

Another great video as usual, thank you!!!

Batman returns has an amazing and detailed score too

Love the Toolbox explorations! Well done. Excited for the joker video.

Excellent video.

Awesome video

What is the difference between the Batman theme and the Love theme?

HELLO !!! Congratulations for your great work, I appreciate it very much, I am learning a number of details that make me very very grateful with all your analysis of the soundtracks that you put on your channel. I have loved Danny Elfman music since I was little, and it would really be a dream if you could ever do an analysis of Edward Scissorhands (Ice Dance).From Spain, Thank you very much!

Interesting that you posit that Joker doesn't have his own theme. I'm no professional musical analyst, but I always considered his theme to be the twisted variant of Batman's theme heard most clearly in "Waltz to the Death", with his motif being the one heard at the end of "The Joker's Poem". This is why I was confused when in Lego Batman 2 - and the movie adaptation thereof - Rob Westwood gave him his own theme, most clearly heard in "Carnival" (WACKYJOKERACT.OGG, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-27IbFlUeBPM.html), since LB2 more commonly uses and builds upon Elfman's themes (and Williams's, to a lesser extent). "Waltz to the Death", while certainly derived from the Batman theme, is very much its own theme, similarly to the relationship between "Anakin's Theme" and the Imperial March. Derived, but not a mere variant.

Good job! This is really interesting. I know the music pretty well, even though I've honestly never seen the movie. I also read in Emilio Audissino's book "John Williams' Film Music" that this is considered a neoclassical score.