The Sound of the Spider-Verse 

*AND ON THAT SCENE*, he finally becomes animated by 24 frames per second, which before he had about 16 to give that feeling that he's cluncky while the other characters graciously (as already complete heroes) were on 24 frames per second all the time. This movies is nuts man, a true masterpiece.

The hair on my arms during that entire scene: ⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️

I like that no one even tries to say that "spider mans uncle will die" is a spoiler anymore. It's just expected of a spider man character

I like that you can sometimes hear the Prowler elephant sound during the sequence too, because Uncle Aaron is part of what makes Miles who he is.

That Prowler theme is one of the best Villain themes I’ve heard this century

One thing I kinda want to add about the “What’s Up Danger” scene - in the script it’s written that “the camera is flipped. Miles isn’t falling. He’s rising“

*slams fists down on a table* THIS MOVIE IS SO GOOD edit: *punches through a wall* THE SEQUEL IS SO GOOD

I am still disappointed this version of 'What's up Danger' is not in the soundtrack.

I prefer the movie version of "what's up danger" because it's so triumphant and feels so much more powerful

My favorite use of the Prowlers Theme is when Peter B Parker shows up. His shadow looks particularly "Prowlery" and the Theme begins to play but as it's revealed that it's actually Peter B, it transforms into nothing more than the sound of the screeching subway.

Here's a fun fact that not many people talk about: Miles keeps his shoes untied during the movie and whenever someone pointed it out he'd say "it's a choice," that 'choice' led to him tripping on his shoelaces and falling off the building, inevitably breaking the USB.

Fun fact: miles is animated in 12FPS while Peter is animated in 24FPS to point out that miles isn’t as experienced as Peter. Just pointing out how much of a masterpiece this movie is

The movie does literally everything correct wtf

Honestly though, literally everything about this movie is a masterpiece.

I would pay millions to see this movie again for the first time.

This movie is electrifying. The soundtrack is a huge part of that.

"Spider-Ham" is actually a spider that was bitten by a radioactive pig. Just wanted to clear out the biggest mistake of this video. It's clearly visible in it's origin story short.

Fun fact, sunflower was still being written while the movie was in the works, so the very first scene with miles where he just hums and all the other scenes where he hums is because the song wasnt finished.

shoutout to the horn player playing all those octaves, that's not easy to make sound as buttery smooth as they did

“Distorted elephant sound” Thanks I can’t unhear that now

Y'all want some more really cool details in just that one scene? 1. When Miles leaps off the skyscraper and the city turns upside-down for him, it represents his rise from his starting point - he's not falling, he's rising. 2. When Miles is swinging through the city, he implements a lot of parkour elements because he told Peter B. Parker that he prefers running over swinging after the laboratory escape. 3. The spider-motif plays at the very end of the sequence when he takes his mask off to breath, signaling he's truly become Spiderman or at least a spider-person. 4. As he lets go of the skyscraper and the glass shards follow him, it could represent either of two things: He's terrified but finally understands that he needs to take that leap of faith OR that he finally understands how to relax during these stressful moments like Peter B. Parker told him in the lab scene at 9:54

The scene where Miles' dad is talking to him on the other side of the door is so powerful, I love how the camera angle shows the audience that they are literally and figuratively divided

Plus, the music holds up years later by giving the same emotions you felt the first time, Tuned down a little because you know what is coming, but you still feel terrified of the Prowler, saddened during Scared of the Dark, and triumphant during What's Up Danger. The music helps this movie so amazing, and it wouldn't be the same without it.

It’s all about that exaggerated swagger of a black teen

I started crying when you showed how they made the hi-hat noises out of Miles' spraypaint cans- god, they cared *so much* when making this movie, this soundtrack is the sound of real artists pouring their passion into these characters and this world. God, it's so beautiful and so sweet. You don't see passion like this in many films these days.

I’d just like to say that the contrast is amazing from modern hip hop to hearing Biggie as we’re introduced to uncle Aaron, communicating how Miles and Aaron are kindred spirits although from different generations.

You left out the part about the Prowler's motif, and how you hear it in "whats up danger" at Miles's ascension because his uncle's death became a part of his identity and all that.

Lmao “where’s the wind coming from? we’re in a basement”

I would like to also point out that when miles is ready to become spider man he merges part of his identity (graffiti) with the spider man identity (the suit)

anyone else think the elephant sound is really terrifying?

when i first heard the "elephant sound" associated with prowler it immediately made me think of similar motifs asssociated with the winter soldier in catws and with helena in orphan black. so now to me, it's the "this villain seems really bad but they're actually good and secretely close to the hero" motif :')

This is one of the greatest movies of the last decade. It’s one of the movies where you watch and just think “This is art”. It’s not a movie, it’s not a movie about spider people, it’s just pure, unfiltered, Art.

Seriously the song itself can be Miles' anthem for the next few movies

That scene was literally breathtaking. Spiderverse was unironically the best superhero film I’ve ever seen. Another little detail: It’s established that Miles clings to things when he gets stressed out. When he jumps the glass under his fingers breaks, meaning he was very stressed and couldn’t release it. He was terrified and he jumped anyway. A true Leap of Faith.

When he is falling and shoots his webs up to grapple something, instead of worrying if they are actually going to grab something, his eyes enter a state of determination. For me that is the single best frame in the film.

I like that they went out of their way to make it sound like it was recorded on location. In a lot of other animated movies, conversations between characters sound like a podcast with way too much clarity but here you can hardly notice the difference between this and live-action. It's part of why the movie feels so human.

I just noticed that gwen plays rock with a traditional stick grip instead of match, thats kinda cool

“Or when his Uncle Aaron dies” *lays down. Tries not to cry. Cries a lot*

He didn't mention that at the beginning of the "What's Up Danger" scene, Prowler's theme is also playing faintly, a little bit pitched down to be more brass.

*”the way he leaps off of rooftops and flips backwards to face the camera before falling into a headfirst dive is just full of the exaggerated swagger of a black teen”*

You also forgot one thing, at the beginning of "What's Up Danger" it plays the distorted elephant sound, the sound that only played when the prowler/Miles' uncle was in a scene. If that sound represents The Prowler, and "Whats Up Danger" represents Miles figuring out who he is, then Miles wouldn't be who he is at the apotheosis of the film without influence from his uncle and his uncle's death.

The best part of the "Spider Motif" is that Pemberton literally wrote it to where you could actually sing the name "Spider-Man" along with it. Source: Film's Commentary

"theres this notion of miles carving his own path with the gifts that hes given even if it isn't necessarily what others want for him" ohhh my god they amplfied it x100 for across the spiderverse, poor miles

I can't believe you didn't mention my favorite part of this scene: one of the biggest barriers for Miles to mastering his powers is controlling his fear. It's directly why he couldn't control his adhesive/stick to walls power, and is additionally stated in the "leap of faith," the culmination of Miles overcoming the boundary of fear. What makes this so impactful is that Miles overcomes the *boundary* of his fear, but not the fear itself. He is still terrified in the scene, but he is controlling his fear for the greater good. This is seen in the way the glass breaks under his hand as he leaps from the building (as his sticking powers are based on whether he's afraid or relaxed), and because the leitmotif for Prowler plays during this sequence. It represents his fear and the way he now has power over that fear: Prowler is terrifying to Miles, but Prowler's motif is used here to support this climax of Miles' character--the moment he truly becomes Spiderman.

The Octave leap is the *leap of faith* leitmotif: It goes up and down because its a leap of faith. Its a jump up and down while staying true to what you are. The last note sounds different from the first even though it's the same (due to the intervals) This is to show that a leap of faith changes you. You have no idea where you'll end up, but you ACTUALLY find yourself in a new way. That's all it is A leap of faith

I find it weird when people criticize the soundtrack. I felt it fit it perfectly, also the score with it worked amazingly well. Seriously, just because it's "popular music" (even though most of the rap used isn't even the genre of rap that's popular, except for Sunflower and whatever Juice Wrld's was), doesn't mean it's going to ruin the movie. It was supposed to take place now so it makes more sense than 90's rap. Edit, 2 years later: damn, too many of you are just racist, and use you "disliking rap" to cover it up 😳

THE FORSHADOWING IS CRAZY

We need him back to talk about the new one fr

As a total nerd when it comes to analyzing movie scores, discovering this channel was such a delight.

Fun fact: Spider Ham actually WASN'T bitten by a radioactive spider Peter Porker was a spider that was bitten by a radioactive pig, and transformed into a pig while still retaining the abilities of a spider Also, this was a great video. I don't have great hearing so the music in films tends to go over my head, and it's really nice to hear about the musical identity of films I love from someone who knows what they're talking about

As an animation writing nerd, this analysis on the music fully supporting and cranking up the themes of this movie (which is probably the most technically ambitious AND successful animated movies in the past decade) to 11 got me SO emotional. I’m going through all your videos since my friend showed me the Cats one the other day and I could literally listen to you talk about leitmotifs forever.

Kinda sad that the fact that the prowler motif being added to whats up danger as well wasnt talked about cause it was part of the journey and metamorphosis and it being incorporated was huge.

”And whenever we see the Prowler onscreen we get this distorted elephant sound.” Me: **frantically turns down volume**

It's funny how i went through all the spiderverse videos i could find, and not in a single one of them the movie was ever criticized

Fun fact: Miles felt iffy about jumping but he realised he is Spider-Man. He always remembers his father, mother and friends. He really wanted to show his dead uncle (Aaron) and everyone else what he is capable of. This is why I love his character, he’s always ready and wants to help. Like in the start. In one scene with Gwen and Peter B. Parker, his spider-sense was on a seconds after, to show he’s not fully ready.

Across the Spider-verse coming out makes me miss Sideways more

Peter: ”where’s that wind coming from? we’re in the basement.” Spider-Noir: “wherever I go, the wind follows.” such amazingness.

i know this is a dunce observation but the fact that the leitmotifs highlighted are all 3 notes makes me feel like theyre intended to literally be singing out "spi-der-man"

Just listening to the new opening song for Across the spiderverse, I can instantly hear how they're blasting the spider people leitmotif. I love this series.

The “What’s Up, Danger” scene is possibly my favorite scene in a movie ever. Listening to you pull apart the music and then put it back together made me wave my hands in critical analysis glee.

Where’s that wind coming from we’re in a basement Noir: 😏

Okay gonna rant: Spiderman into the spiderverse (SITS) captured something that many other spiderman films did not: the identity of spiderman. Constantly the spiderman films (Toby Mcguire, Andrew Garfield and Tom Holland) mess around with the identity of Spiderman but always revolve it being around one thing "with great power comes great responsibility". Thats it. Theres little tid bits added but honestly, thats the gist. But SITS? Nope. Responsibility isnt the focus of the movie. And you may think: "Ah, yeah it is? Miles has to learn the responsibilty of becoming Spiderman?" And in a way, yeah. He does. But that is NOT the focal point of this movie or any of the characters. Its about identity. The identity of who these characters are. And it was touched on a little in this analysis. Every little detail added to the movie is about giving the characters identity. The music, the scenery, colours - fucking everything. And that is why this movie rules. Because this isnt about responsibilty. Anyone can become responsible. Its about identity and what you become. That scene where miles jumps? The breathtaking moment of animation? That epic scene is him finding his identity and why it works so well. The music is so bold and heavy and deep because the scene itself is a bold, heavy, deep moment for Miles. I could honestly gush about this movie and every amazing thing it does fpr hours and Im so happy that sideways made a vid on the music. Loved it!

That scene... the way he jumps through the air with all the exaggerated swagger of a black teen...

Great, after hearing you talk about the lack of hip-hop numbers in other movies, I am now sad again about Friend Like Me from the Aladdin remake

Another thing is that when Miles sees Peter Parker you see green and purple the colors of 'The Prowler' seeing that if Miles stayed with Aaron longer he would have become the next Prowler but he meets The Peter Parker you see it fade to blue and red the colors of Spider-Man meaning in that him meeting Peter Parker changed him into Spider-Manor his view or whatever.Imagine what evil could have been done with his unique powers.

Not to mention a subdued Prowler's theme is the backing beat of What's Up Danger

Sideways: “Now listen to-“ RU-vid: “Now that’s where I’m going to stop you.”

The prowler sound is the miles sound backwards

The spray cans are actually in Miles' score?!!! HOW??!! HOW CAN THEY MAKE ME LOVE A MOVIE MORE THAN I ALREADY DO?!! That's thematically brilliant, that's narratively brilliant.

This: "Honestly Miles don't do it like I did, you gotta do it like YOU" It makes you feel proud seeing Miles taking on the role of Spider-Man, a new hero, and not just a copy "wanna be". And it was somewhat nostalgic that our boy Peter left his legacy. I think it was the best thing they could have done for Miles, I know there were many people who didn't really like this character or didn't take him seriously because they saw it as a replacement for our good old Spider-Man Peter. This was a great way to give him the best welcome movie ever. Miles Morales, welcome to the Marvel universe ;)

This proves that sound is as important as the visuals

I would so love for you to analyse the music in the sequel, I've heard that Gwen's drums only match up when she finally finds her 'band', but I'm sure there's got to be more.

Also, During the Mi Familia scene the music gets quieter when Miles DOESN'T have his headphones on, then it picks up the volume when he does!! Just a neat little thing I noticed literally 10 seconds ago while watching hflavslsbs

Prowler's sound when hes at his apartment scared the CRAP out of me o-o

Watching this video has enhanced my experience of across the spiderverse, since the same 2 musical cues were used throughout the film

it’s crazy how much impact 3 notes has wtf

the reason I genuinely think this film belongs with the greats (being one of the best of all time), is because you can make so many videos like this talking about aspect of what's good. you can never mention everything

One of my favorite scenes in spider-verse is when Myles first goes in the lab area construction site place. All the voices in his head go quiet and then the text 'watch out' appears behind him. It may be a small almost insignificant Scene but that moment in its entirety made me absolutely fall in love with the movie before I'd even reached the end.

The "I said I got you now" Actually uses the third leitmotif shown. It's really interesting how they incorporated the leitmotifs into the soundtrack, it shows how genius this movie is.

I always feel overwhelmed and cry when the "i got you now" scene plays so i just kept randomly jumping from crying to emotionless whenever he played that scene in this video. What a rollercoaster

Sideways + Into The Spider verse = immediate like

I too can't hear the word "trickery" without hearing Robbie Rotten singing in my head

i miss sideways terribly and wish that he would do a video on across the spider-verse as a followup

THE GRAFFITI AT 7:48 LOOKS LIKE THE SPOTS POSE IN ACROSS THE SPIDER VERSE WHEN HE TOUCHES THE REACTOR THING

Anyone else notice that the shape of the inverted skyline in the iconic leap of faith shot (7:14) totally visually mirrors the "journey" leitmotif?

I like the fact that the Spider Motif musically actually says, "Spi-Der-Man!" Much like how the Superman theme, by the directors own admission, says "It's Su-per-man!" with the fanfare

Nearly 5 years later, I am still amazed by the movie, and it still makes me cry.

“What’s Up Danger” is a great song, but that one part where Miles goes “WOOOOO” just makes it perfect and I’m disappointed that version isn’t on the soundtrack

Goddamn, that is some of the best use of leitmotifs I've seen since Undertale, phenomenal. This is a movie I can watch again and again.

YO THAT WAS MY REDDIT POST ABOUT THE SPIDER! Thanks for the shoutout bro!

Time to make one of Across the Spider-Verse now

I saw the newest movie last night, and the first thing I did in the theater after it was over was check RU-vid to see if you made a video on its music. Every time I heard a motif in the music I basically punched my fiancée’s arm in excitement. I really, really want to hear your thoughts on Across the Spiderverse. Thank you for my favorite video on RU-vid :)

Even as someone who doesn't like hip-hop, I couldn't help but feel myself cheering for Miles during the scene and rightfully so it would seem considering how much work, thought, and layers were built for his apotheosis .

It’s KILLING ME that no one has mentioned that those two themes are literally based on the words “SPI-der Man”. And that the spider person theme comes as a direct rhythmic quote from the original animated show theme song spider-man. So good!

man miles sure does have exaggerated swagger

“The exaggerated swagger”

I'd like to point out the fact that, in your videos, you don't put music in between musical examples to fill in the space. I like that you do this, because the silence between examples allows for me to think about what you're explaining while having the piece in my head. Very cool!

So "what's up danger" is literally Miles' Hero's Journey encompassed through one song by combining musical motifs that represent the Known, Unknown and the passage between the two, and this theme plays at the literal peak of said journey. That's Godlike.

I'm so so grateful that I was able to watch this movie in the theater. Experiencing the "What's up danger" scene on a wide screen and loud speakers, incredible.

Can’t wait to hear what you have to say about beyond the spiderverse