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Danny Elfman
The beauty of a main title is that you establish your main theme and maybe a bit of your secondary theme. You plant the seed that you're going to go water later in the score. And so, having that removed just made it so much more difficult.
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Danny Elfman is saying that a main title introduces the key musical ideas that will be developed throughout the score, acting like a starting point for the composer to build on later. Without this initial theme, it becomes much harder to create a cohesive and connected musical story.
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