How Hollywood's temp scores are hurting your favorite action movies

Can you sing anything from a Marvel movie? That’s the question that Tony Zhou of *Every Frame a Painting* poses at the beginning of his latest video essay, The Marvel Symphonic Universe. Zhou gets several people on the street to hum songs from *Star Wars*, *James Bond**,* and *Harry Potte**r* but nobody can remember a tune from cinema’s most successful brand. Asking random people a question on the street isn’t always a great place to get solid information, as Jay Leno taught us so many years ago, but it illustrates a solid point: Marvel’s music is unmemorable, which is notable, ... more »