This video will be divided in three sections. One, without spoilers, another with musical spoilers
and the last one with spoilers from the movie. Each point of division will be well announced.
Hello friends, I'm Dr. Papá de Bulma. I have seen Dragon Ball Super Broly
three times, and jeez what a fun movie it is. You already know that my thing is
the music, but at least here is a quick list with things I like and dislike
without any spoilers.
Positive.
> Great expansion of the Dragon Ball universe. > Exploration of past events by Toriyama's
own hand. > Introduction of characters full of charisma.
> Stellar character designs by Naohiro Shintani and Isamu Takara.
> Top notch animation. Ryo Onishi, Yuya Takahshi and Yuki Hayashi are real monsters.
> Various animators had space to shine without too excesive corrections.
> Very polished CGI compared to the previews films.
> Amazing choreographies. > Toriyama's humour.
> Great emotional burden in the first act.
Negative.
> The pacing is too quick. > Some scens could have been explored
more deeply. > There's some certain scene where I'd wish
for more sound effects. > There were some missing explanations.
> BONUS: The mixing in the latin dub wasn't too polished.
Is, without any doubt, an incredible experience watching thismovie. Even knowing the spoilers
won't ruin the tremendous experience that it is, although I understand there's a lot of people
who didn't enjoy the story at all, but here I am, giving you
my own opinions, and I loved it. For me, it's the best Dragon Ball
movie ever made, and the best thing that has come out of the franchise since
its renaissance in 2008.
You may have noticed that I didn't mention the soundtrack in the list, and that's because
it deserves its own space. The sentence I'll say it's completly subjective, but here it is:
"Dragon Ball Super Broly Soundtrack is the best musical work that Dragon Ball
have ever had in any of its ramifications.
There it is. As you heard. It's the best musica work in the franchise. But, how do I dare
making such an extreme statement? Well, there some reasons, and these will be
explored in depth in future videos, so for now I'll just give you a little taste.
If you've seen my analysis of the music of Battle of Gods, Resurrection F
and Dragon Ball Z Movie 8, you'll know that I tried to find themes that represented
characters or situations. Norihito SUmitomo did, for the first time in the history of
Dragon Ball, a deep thematic work that seems to be out of a Wagner's opera.
Allow me to quote the Twitter user, Terez27, who explains this better than me:
That's right. The work in this soundtrack feels like a great story, where
each character has its own identity represented trough music, and where each one of
the events are strongly connected by it.
That being said, I will now superficially discuss some things about the soundtrack. If you don't
want to listen it before watching the movie, this will be a good place to stop the video,
but this is not the spoilers section yet. On the other hand, the tracklist
already has spoilers, so proceed with caution.
As I already told, there's a great connection between characters and events through the music.
Freeza has his music well defined, and so do Broly.
Freeza has this theme, although he has another one too.
Broly in particular, whose theme evolves during the whole soundtrack
to fit in context and emotion in a masterful way.
Paragus also has his own music, but of that I'm not sure so I'll not talk about
it by now.
Let's answer some questions:
Favorite track? There isn't. The whole soundtrack is amazing. But the ones that I repeat the most are:
What do I think about the anouncer and the voices? I love them. Even during the film,
I thought it elevated all the emotions of that moments, but it's one of those things that
if you stop to think about it, then you'll stop enjoying it. You only have to
let it be. Besides, the rhythmic of the choir is great. And even if I'd disliked them,
the music is still top notch, so there's no other option that accepting them.
What do I think about this version of CHA-LA HEAD-CHA-LA? Weird, but one of my favorites.
There some different chord but the truth is that it's very enjoyable.
What do think of Blizzard? I don't love it, but it is there between the best songs
in Dragon Ball. The instrumental version during Broly vs Gogeta ~ Theme Song is fantastic.
Why didn't I mention Memories of Bah during my most repeated tracks? Because it doesn't
fulfill me as other tracks. I say this because I now it's one of the favorites and that if I
I didn't aknowledge it you'll ask about it. I like it, it's a beautiful variation of
Broly's Theme, so I hope I won't read anyone claiming I don't like it, but it's not exactly
what I want to listen the most, and I know at first hand that Sumitomo is capable of doing
much more emotive music. Nevertheless, this piece goes for an inocent sound, and it succeeds wonderfully.
IMPORTANT This isn't the spoiler section, but from now I'll talk about everything that was shown in trailers and promotionals.
This may be considered as spoilers for some. If you decided not to watch them, this is your moment to stop the video.
For the next topic, in general terms, the music in the album is the same
as in the movie, but there are some differences. Surely I didn't notice them all given that I
haven't been able to watch the movie with control, but here are the ones I noticed
the third time I watched the movie:
It seems that they quite the percussion in Ruled by Freeza.
If I recall correctly, in Freeza's Scheme, Premonition of Death, they skip to directly
to the melody in horns in the second 40.
Vegeta's Irritation doesn't have percussion during the movie.
The Adventure Begins doesn't have percussion during the movie either, so the
orchestra section at the end sounds much more calm.
The Wild Child, Broly, starts in the brass section in the minute with twenty seconds
and when that section finishes, sounds the beggining of the track in the album.
Basically, they change the order of the piece.
The drums entrance in Broly Evolves doesn't play during the movie.
In Kakarrot vs Broly the announcer says Kakarrot and Broly in different places.
Also, the choir is distributed in a different way in the movie.
The last bar has an extra "Kakarrot" that is not in the album.
I think that Broly's Rage and Sorrow had one or two extra bars in the movie
But I'm not sure.
The melody took a while to begin.
If I remember rightly, Will They Fuse?! is structured differently in the movie.
The Birth of Gogeta ends with the fanfare and I didn't percieved the rest of the
piece in any other moment.
This section wasn't used.
Broly vs Gogeta ~ Theme Song is structered in a different way,
and the choir sings during the vast majority of the track in the film.
These are the differences I noticed. There's possibly more that I didn't spot, or maybe even
I was wrong with some of these. In a final note, it goes without saying
that the music placement is fantastic. Even during the moments without any music, they are
perfectly chosen. I love finding a work of this caliber in the film.
All that being says, let's go to the final section where I speak openly about the spoilers.
In this section I will contrast the teories I made during my analysis of the trailer 2
with that the soundtrack and the film ended up being. Let's get to it.
In the first place, in the trailers analysis I said that only the second trailer had
music by Sumitomo, having the others music exclusive to trailers. I was right.
The first thing you hear in the trailer is a shortened version of Broly Begins to Battle.
I said that that electric guitar may have been played by Hiroshi Imauzumi, but
in the soundtrack credits, Imauzumi is credited in the acoustic guitars, whereas
Kenji Fujisawa is credited in the electric guitars. Anyway, I've noticed that the soundtrack has
a different presence of the electric guitars including more virtuostic solos. It's possible
that this new rol is covered by Kenji Fujisawa while Hiroshi Imazumi is, in fact,
playing the electric guitars in this track uncredited.
I interrumpt this video to make an update. I decided to ask Norihito Sumitomo himself
about this, and he told me that it's not any of those guitarist.
That guitar was programmed by him. In other words, they're synthetic, not played
by anybody. I also asked him if it was the same case for the drums given that there's
nobody credited to them, and he told me that that was right. That means that the drum entrance
in Broly Evolves is synthtetic and not played by anyone. This is
very interesting to me, for it makes me change the way I listen to Sumitomo giving him
way more credit to his instrument programmings. Let's continue with the video.
I told you that the piece was written in the form 3+3+2+2+2 and that may have corresponded
to a 3/4 o or a 6/8 time signature. This was a mistake produce by how fast I made that video,
for 12 quavers doesn't make those bars. The piece is in 6/4.
quavers - quarters
In the entrance to the trailer I said that there was to extra quavers and that that section
probable didn't corresponded to what came in the in the real piece,
and I was right. There's a string section doing a chromatic melody that it's ignored
in the trailer.
I told you that this piece may correspond to Freeza given the sound of the guitar,
but I was wrong. While the piece is called Broly Begins to Battle, it's actually
a repeatition of another track called Paragus' Rage. My impression is that
the uncomfortably basses that I mentioned in that video represent Paragus, while the melody
playing during this section is, confirmed, Broly's Theme. I'll talk more in depth about
this in a future video.
The trailer skips another full section falling on the resolutive tension
at the end.
This piece played in the movie when Broly and Vegeta start fighting, coverint all the
way to Vegeta, in God form, almost killing Broly.
Now we go to the second track, which I theorized it may have been the continuation of the first one.
Is, as I already mentioned, exactly the contrary.
Now we have the original version: Paragus' Rage.
Something interesting is that I said the trailer
skipped a section at the beggining of Broly Begins to Battle. That section is also in
this track, and it was also skipped in this occasion.
We go directly to an descending melody that I told you it may represent Freeza.
Now we now it's used to represent Paragus.
I said that the piece was in 3/4, but, same as before, is actually in 6/4.
I won't show it because is the same as before but slower.
I mentioned too that the melody is followed by paralel fifths,
but that was also a mistake made for the hurry making that video. They are paralel thirds.
The trailer skipped one more section of the piece. Strangely enough, it's the same section
skipped in Broly Begins to Battle.
The chords at the end of this piece are also in Paragus' Rage
but in the trailer they're skipped, and we go directly
to the last of those chords, a D minor in which there movement in the violas.
This wasn't used.
This was.
I corresponds to the end of the piece, and the trailer use it to let Freeza have a dialog without any music.
This music played when King Vegeta tell Paragus that Broly was already
launched, and Paragus steal a ship to go behind him.
In this moment, we go to the last section of trailer with the fan favorite, Bardock Falls.
I teoriced that this may sound during the launching of Kakaroto.
Although the piece plays in that moment, it wasn't during the section played in the trailer.
As you may already know, this section begin playing when the saiyans see Freeza's
attack going to their planet.
It playes while Bardock resists the attack and it ends when Planet Vegeta is destroyed.
I also mentioned that I had never heared something like that from Sumitomo, but now that I
know more music by him, I can tell you that I do have listened this kind of sound in him.
We're now listening One and Only Love from the movie Konya, Romance Gekijode.
Besides, I've listened him doing music a lot more japanese sounding,
as we can listen here in the Genji Monogatari Sennen no Nazo soundtrack.
I mentioned that the piece was too shortened and that you could tell that there was something
playing before. And of course, what they showed us wasn't even the first phrase
of that melody.
All of this was cut off.
This cut made us believe that the piece was defined by the melody played in it.
Of course we were all wrong.
I said that the piece was in 3+3+2 and I was right. This is important because
I theorized that two quavers were missing from the next bar, and so it was.
quavers - quarters
This cut produced that some full version as imagined by fans had the wrong
rhythmm, although we could find the right one in my trailer analysis.
Of course, my biggest respect to everyone who is brave enough to make
their own theroical version of the tracks, and I don't say that of my analysis trying to cricicize them.
The trailer skips a small section of the piece.
And finally, it ends with an huge and glorious fanfare in brasses, in which I theoriced that
the was a time missing in the bar of the last chord. I was wrong in this,
because the full track also ends in that irregular time.
quavers - quarters
That's all I wanted to tell you for now. You already know that there are mot videos
talking about Broly in depth comming, but please be patient. It won't be possible to produce them
very quickly because they'll require more extensive analysis and I'd like to wait until de Blu-ray release.
Before I leave, I want to show you this drawing made by Frost Forest with a fun
expresson in my avatar. Thank you very much!
Cheers, and until the next time, when we're watching Dragon Ball with other ears.
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