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Watch: Tony Zhou on Marvel’s Lackluster Scores and Temp Track Mediocrity
The Marvel Symphonic Universe from Tony Zhou on Vimeo.
In this video essay, Tony Zhou gets deep into why the Marvel Connected Universe — the highest-grossing franchise of all time — sports not one memorable musical theme that people can recall. The answer involves a crippling dependency on temp tracks bordering on the potentially lawsuit-worthy, making this a good look at the general state of Hollywood musical scores beyond the MCU.
