"Over the Hedge" - Soundtrack

Ben Folds har indspillet 6 sange til filmen "Over the Hedge"

• Family of Me
• Heist
• Still
• Lost In The Supermarket (The Clash Cover)
• Still (Reprise)
• Rockin' The Surburbs (Over The Hedge Version) (Komplet trackliste her)

Som det ses, drejer det sig kun om 3 nye kompositioner ("Family of Me", "Heist" og "Still"). "Rocking' The Surburbs" er genbrug fra albummet af samme navn, men med en ny og mere børnevenlig tekst og nu featuring William Shatner.

Filmen er skabt på baggrund af en tegneserie af tegnerne Michael Fry og T. Lewis. Se flere tegneserier her. (klik på kalenderen)

Ben Folds skriver om sangene:

'heist' was supposed to be silly kids fun. but we needed to tell the audience that the racoon, RJ was a pied piper, a bit of a salesman. the characters are all still innocent so it has to be irony free, except for just a hair of foreshadowing that it might not always all be alright. the song insists that you can buy and use as much as you want, more will appear on the shelves the next day. otherwise, it's just fun for kids so they'll throw more popcorn.

'still' is the watershed song for the two main characters and what i put the most thought into. it's about how things change when you're not expecting or when you're not looking. and i wrote it imagining the gary shandling character, verne, as a sad scientist who's been looking at inanimate objects through a microscope to avoid bigger picture issues. but he realizes that even the things that appear to be still are actually moving and changing as well. so in his trying to avoid the bigger reality by obsessing over details, he's realizing the details all add up to the same thing he's run from. in the soundtrack version, i got into the racoon's history with his trailor mom some, but that was a little outside what the film called for.... læs mere

Handling: Den omrejsende bondefanger RJ ankommer til en skov fuld af begejstring ved de muligheder, som det at bo nær mennesker kan betyde for sultne dyr. Men i skoven møder han et amish-ligende samfund, hvor dyrene er dødelige bange for mennesker. Det skyldes, at deres leder skildpadden Vern havde mødt nogle frygtindgydende drenge. Men opmuntret af RJ begynder dyrene efterhånden at bevæge sig uden for den hæk der adskiller dem fra den nybebyggelse, der er dukket op i løbet af vinteren, mens de lå i hi. Og RJ kan vise dem en helt ny verden, hvor mennesker efterlader mad i store beholdere. Men efterhånden som dyrene kommer tættere og tættere på menneskerne, bliver deres komfortable liv i skoven truet.

"Over the Hedge" får premiere i danske biografer d. 29. september 2006, med titlen "Over Hækken"

Anbefalede links:
Filmens Officielle hjemmeside
Blog om Ben's sange til filmen
Se trailer til filmen her