The collaboration between Tim Burton and Danny Elfman is one of the great director/composer relationships in modern cinema.
Clearly it’s a special relationship for both men, and as I recently learned during an interview with Elfman, it’s one that is unique in some very key ways.
The two men first came together for Pee-wee’s Big Adventure back in 1985, and while they’ve both worked with other filmmakers in the time since then, that does nothing to undercut the fact that they’ve made 17 features together (18 if you count Henry Sellick’s The Nightmare Before Christmas).