Rolling Stone editor Matthew Perpetua discusses the process of developing the soundtrack of Alter Egos in an interview with Sean Lennon. Lennon also scored Galland's 2009 feature, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead, and also worked with Galland on his award-winning debut short, surreal film Smile for the Camera. Galland and Lennon have been friends for around 15 years, and have collaborated on each other's albums. Musician Sean Lennon, besides playing "Electric Death", also contributed the musical score for this film. Sean Lennon in Rolling Stone Interview Cast That was when we sort of went with the third direction, which was kind of a straight-up action hero style– a serious, orchestrated superhero score. Despite how silly the film is and how kind of comedic it is, it needed a certain seriousness to sort of propel the more important aspects of the narrative – you know, the parents having been killed by this bad guy and the superhero avenging the murder of his parents. I really enjoyed making that music, but it didn't ground the film and it lacked gravity. Then there was another direction we went, which was a retro Italian superhero film, kind of a Barbarella direction. It sort of highlighted the wrong aspects of the film. At first, we did a kind of goofy, Napoleon Dynamite sort of thing which didn't really work out. We went through several versions of the style, or the approach, that we were going to take. Somewhere along the storyline, he must tackle the fact that his girlfriend loves his superhero identity more than his unmasked self, and, naturally, face his nemesis, the man who killed his mom and dad-although he really doesn't want to." Unlike Superman, it's not because he has to do so to keep his identity under wraps-more like he uses his superhero garb to explore different facets of his personality, as evidenced by the title. Like Superman, Fridge is dorky in his human clothes. Quite obviously, this is a parody of parodies and flips the superhero genre on its head. If you have the powers, as lead supers Fridge ( Kris Lemche), and C-Thru ( Joey Kern), do, then, well, you can practice them for good, as long as you follow the guidelines, or at least some of them. " Alter Egos inhabits a fantasy world where superheroes are a dime a dozen. The plot follows the misadventures of the Fridge, an under-appreciated superhero, at a time when superheroes have lost government funding and all public support.
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