Hey, Alan:

There is a scene in the movie The Gospel According To St. Matthew, where a cripple comes up to Christ to be healed. In the background, they're playing Blind Willie Johnson's Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground. To me, it was the most powerful juxtaposition of music with a scene I've ever seen. The song has always given me chills when I listen to it, and it was even more chilling in that scene.

Another song that is indelibly marked in my mind is The Ten Commandments Of Love by the Moonglows, which plays in the background of a scene in The Bronx Tale. A motorcycle gang has made the bad mistake of deciding to trash a bar in the Bronx, where Mafia-type criminals are gamlbing in the back room. The leader of the criminals comes out into the bar and locks the gang in, and then the rest of the men in the back come busting through the door swing baseball bats. It is one of the most brutal scenes I've ever seen, and spills out into the street where they destroy the motorcycles and leave the motorcycle gang strew about on the sidewalk and gutter. And in the background, they're playing The Ten Commandments Of Love. Absolutely brill, as the Beatles would have said.

Jerry