The Road to El Dorado -

TL; DR: I decided to do an analysis of the way leitmotifs (also called motives and themes) are used in the score of this movie. For the next several pages I expound upon these developments in a play-by-play method, identifying the motives as they are introduced, and looking at each motive in its specific usage and how it is brilliantly enhancing and necessary to the onscreen action. I also take a look at a few of the songs cut from the film, because they are greatly enhancing to the plot and understanding the characters. This movie should have been much better than it turned out (read anything Terry Rossio & Ted Elliot have said about it to understand, such as: http://mjsimpson-films.blogspot.com/2013/04/interview-ted-elliott-and-terry-rossio.html), and the excellent music is one of our big hints of what it could have been.