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Subject: Great musical movie scenes From: Dan Date: 18 Jun 99 - 03:41 PM I'll never forget the scenes in Cool Hand Luke where the inmate in the background strummed and sang "Just a Closer Walk With Thee." Then there was the one in "Sounder" where the black guy was walking along a dirt road with a crowd of friends after a softball game, banging on a big steel string and singing "Jesus, Won't You Come Back Heah?" which later became the background music for the tear jerking finale. Hell, I could name a hundred. Which ones inspired you? |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Bert Date: 18 Jun 99 - 03:48 PM I like the Oompah pah scene from Oliver. Lionel Bart also had a great scene in musical Blitz, but I don't think it was a movie. In the Underground singing 'Go to sleep'. Bert. |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Steve Latimer Date: 18 Jun 99 - 03:56 PM Does the Camelot scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail count? I recall some great ones in the Colour Purple. They were probably a pretty accurate depiction of an old Juke Joint. You've actually inspired me to go out and rent that one again, it's been too long since I've seen it. I was so young when I saw Sounder that I barely remember it. I have since found out that Taj Mahal did a lot of the soundtrack, I think I'll get that on too. Sorry, I have a warped mind, but thinking of those two reminds me of the opening scene to The Jerk. I often feel the Steve Martin character when I'm in the midst of great music. |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Fadac Date: 18 Jun 99 - 03:56 PM On TV they did an epasode of the Young Indina Jones. He was in Chicago, working part time in the speak-easys. There he learned jazz. This one epasode opened the door to me on what jazz is all about. Also Indy didn't just pick up the sax and play well right off the bat. They made a show of him working on just one tune...for months, before he "got it". This taught me to be patiant with myself, not to expect to just pick up an instrument and be a pro, in five min. (Unlike some other TV programs.) I wish I had that epasode on tape. -Fadac |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: bseed(charleskratz) Date: 18 Jun 99 - 04:27 PM The entire sound track of "A Soldier's Story" was amazing: Patti LaBelle--who played a blues singer in a black nightclub in the town outside the army base--wrote and directed it (the soundtrack, not the movie), and performed several of the songs. Others were performed by the actor who played the blues-singing baseball player framed by the sergeant in his drive to get rid of "geechy" black soldiers. A powerful movie, much of whose power derives from the great blues score. Others include "High Noon," the ballad--sung by Tex Ritter, father of the actor John Ritter--which serves as an emotional narrative for the story, one of the great Westerns, starring Grace Kelly and Gary Cooper. Others, of course, include Simon and Garfunkle's "The Graduate" soundtrack and Cat Stevens' "Harold and Maude." I also loved the Frank Sinatra/Bing Crosby "High Society" scene. But that was a musical and a whole nother category: "American in Paris," "Cabaret," and on and on. --seed |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Marion Date: 18 Jun 99 - 04:31 PM I loved the scene in "Titanic" where the little orchestra is playing while the lifeboats are filling up. Finally one of the musicians says, "Oh, we may as well stop, nobody's listening to us anyway." Another musician says, "They don't listen during dinner either; keep playing." I thought that line (though I don't remember the wording) was the best part of the movie. |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: LEJ Date: 18 Jun 99 - 04:48 PM "Springtime for Hitler" from the movie of the same name, and Mel Brooks performing the title song from High Anxiety , his Hitchcock parody.Born to Be Wild blasting underneath the noise of Peter and Dennis' Harleys in Easy Rider."What is a Rose", from the Capulet Party scene in Zefferelli's Romeo and Juliet. The bizarre, cacophanous music throughout The French Connection which was just perfect. The entire soundtrack of Last of the Mohicans, but specifically the pursuit across the limestone cliffs at the end of the film. The integration of story and action in The Sting, with the seemingly incongruous ragtime of Scott Joplin. LEJ |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Uilleand Date: 18 Jun 99 - 05:02 PM From "The Shawshank Redemption", when he barricades himself in the office and puts on the record with the duet of the Countess & Susanna from "The Marriage of Figaro" and blasts it over the speaker into the prison courtyard. Or the theme from "Gone with the Wind" at the end of the first half of the movie where Scarlett is standing under the tree looking at what remains of Tara. |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Mudjack Date: 18 Jun 99 - 05:07 PM In the classic "Grapes of Wrath" when Tom Joad (Henry Fonda" is giving the farewell verbage to his mother, the scene is special because "The Red River Valley" is haunting and I just can't hear RRV without thinking of that great moment in film.Great thread... Mj |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Matthew B. Date: 18 Jun 99 - 05:29 PM Fadac, I know the episide you're referring to: Indiana Jones and the Birth of the Blues. It was really great, and by the way, at the the end of that episode he's in his sixties, and he kills the bad guys by playing his saxophone, causing the snow to slide off of his roof and bury them. Talk about music that can move you! LEJ, "Springtime for Hitler" was from the movie The Producers and yes, it was great! The Duelling Banjos scene in Deliverance was also very memorable for me, as was just about every scene in Music Man. I was affected by the music all throughout the movie Amadeus, especially when Mozart instantly transforms Salieri's pedantic little march into a musical flight of fantasy, or when he's "forced" at a party to convert a piece into the style of JS Bach, and then suddenly, while being suspended upside down, to play the same piece he'd just composed -- backwards. But to me, the most poweful use of music in any movie was what I heard in Lawrence of Arabia. There's a brilliantly directed moment in the beginning where Lawrence snuffs out a match with his fingers; the extinguished flame is suddenly replaced by the blazing sun in the desert, where the two men cross a vast sea of sand dunes and the powerful musical theme brings the power, the majesty and most of all, the magic, right to you. |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Shack Date: 18 Jun 99 - 05:34 PM In "Your Cheating Heart," the producer-guy, as a test, tells Hank he is going across the street to have a cup of coffee and you sit here and see if you can write a song while I'm gone. The producer-guy comes back and Hank is sitting there with his feet up on the desk, guitar on his lap, and without saying a word breaks into "I Can't Help It If I'm Still In Love With You." Makes me tingle to think about that scene. |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Guy Wolff Date: 18 Jun 99 - 06:22 PM I've never gotten over how good the sound track to "The Long Riders" was!I'm interested why Ry Cooder dose not come up much in conversation around here.I thought his use of pump organs Mandolin fiddle and the rest was realy Brilliant in that one.The voiceing to that sound track was incredable!He deffinatly is his own man and has taken many liberties but I find that one of his strenths. What do peaple think? Yours in clay! Guy<<<<>>>>>>><<<<<<>>>>><<<<<>><<<<>>************8*8** |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Sandy Paton Date: 18 Jun 99 - 06:32 PM The musical exchange between ethnic groups in John Sayles superb film Matewan is very powerful, as is the rest of the music in the film (and the movie itself). Don't miss this one! Also, the soprano sax (I think) rendition of "Just a Closer Walk With Thee," played by George Lewis, that runs behind the opening credits and first scene of Heartland brought me close to tears. I went back the next evening with a cassette recorder and taped it. That, too, is one of the great recent films. Be sure to see it. Sandy |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: John Hindsill Date: 18 Jun 99 - 08:24 PM Any B oater starring Roy or Gene or Tex wherein the hero is ridin' his faithful hoss through the desert, strummin' his ol' guitar and singin'. Suddenly from nowhere (or behind the cactus) can be heard a full-blown cowboy band accompanying our heero.---John |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: bseed(charleskratz) Date: 18 Jun 99 - 09:48 PM Speaking of sax bits in films, there's the incredible, sensuous jazz sax solo in "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" which inspired Francis McComber's wife to ask "Doesn't that African have any piety?" Anyone remember that one? I've been wondering who the player was for years. --seed |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: DWDitty Date: 18 Jun 99 - 11:40 PM Tap Dance sequences - especially teams like Chuck & Chuckles or Buck & Buckles. The move Tap (not Taps) brought Sammay Davis together with some of the greats - Sandman Sims, Buster Brown, etc. The movie Crossroads (or Karate Kid learns the blues, as I call it) feature Ry Cooder doing lots of Robert Johnson. The final scene where the kid cuts heads with the devil (Steve Vai is the hired gun) is a pretty ferovious 10-15 minutes. |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: alison Date: 19 Jun 99 - 12:31 AM Gene Kelly in basically anything.. but especially dancing on roller skates in "It's always fair weather", and doing the raunchy bit with Cyd Charise during braodway melody in "Singing in the rain". and the barn raising dance off scene in "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers." Slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: katlaughing Date: 19 Jun 99 - 12:33 AM Louie Armstrong: "It's a wonderful day" in Good Morning Vietnam (not really a musical, but neither are some of the other mentions). Th song the little boy sang, in his sweet, clear voice, in Empire of the Sun. The whole soundtrack from Legends of the Fall; Hear My Song; a movie the Chieftains' music was featured in, with that really cool old cowboy actor, Something Farnsworth, called The Grey Fox, I think (sorry, my mind is a sieve, sometimes); West Side Story; Fiddler on the Roof (when I was working part-time at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre in Waterford, CT, I had the pleasure of seeing songs from this and Oklahoma done by exchange students from Russia with their American counterparts; topnotch and thrilling); "who will buy" from Oliver; the spaceship communicatins tune from Close Encounters; Dumb Dog from Annie; Swing Kids; The Music Man; Rob Roy; and Braveheart. A bunch of the ones already mentioned, too, esp. Amadeus, esp. because I saw it with my brother whom I consider to be this century's only slightly discovered "Amadeus", only his middle name is "Lorenzo". Thanks, katlaughing |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: WyoWoman Date: 19 Jun 99 - 12:40 AM I absolutely adore the soundtrack for "Dead Man Walking." So atmospheric and swampish, you can practically feel the moss growing on the notes. KC |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: alison Date: 19 Jun 99 - 12:48 AM Anything from "Local Hero" beautful scenery, and wonderful music. A great film.... slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: WyoWoman Date: 19 Jun 99 - 01:05 AM Yes, yes. Local Hero is one of my favorite movies. No one I know has seen it. Has anyone seen the movie "Lawn Dogs?" There was an amazing dobro player on it and I wrote the name down but can't find my note. Now I guess I"ll have to re-rent the movie so I can fast-forward to the end and figure out who played that scrumptious dobro... kc |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Obloquy67 Date: 19 Jun 99 - 01:17 AM Kate Bush singing "Woman's Work" while Kevin Bacon waits outside the delivery room wondering if his wife and infant will survive childbirth... Ducky lipsyncing to Otis Redding's "Try A Little Tenderness" in the record store in "Pretty In Pink"... Aretha Franklin doing a redux of "Think" in "The Blues Brothers"... |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: DonMeixner Date: 19 Jun 99 - 01:26 AM In the movie "Zulu" the Welsh soldiers are listening to the Zulus chanting when Sir Stanley Baker asks a soldier how do they shape up as singers. He replies they have a great bass section but no top tenors. Then he launches into "Men Of Harlech". Eventually all the British soldiers are singing "Harlech" which is sung against the Zulus war chant. It rises in intensity until at last the Zulus charge the regiment. Truly an exciting scene. DonMeixner |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: bseed(charleskratz) Date: 19 Jun 99 - 02:21 AM My favorite scene from The Blues Brothers is Cab Calloway's black suit turning to a white tux when he does "Minnie the Moocher" to placate the crowd waiting for the brothers to arrive. I love the old Calloway appearances from the '30s as well. Another really memorable musical moment is the only sound part of Chaplin's Modern Times, and Laurel and Hardy had a great one in Way Out West (is that the right name?). --seed |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Rick Fielding Date: 19 Jun 99 - 03:21 AM I was absolutely transfixed by the band's playing of "Mist Covered Mountains" in Local Hero. So much so that I went out and bought a small melodeon the next day and set about learning it. I've rented that film at least a dozen times. I've acquired at least 5 recordings of the tune but nothing compares to the way they did it in the movie (wonky chords and all) |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Herge Date: 19 Jun 99 - 05:37 AM The nusic throughout 'The last of the mohicans' is spine-chilling. Also the score to 'Dances with wolves'. Good injun films. Herge |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Dave Swan Date: 19 Jun 99 - 11:45 AM Kat, That's Richard Farnsworth in the Gray Fox. He was a stuntman for years before he began doing speaking roles. Next time you see the film, watch him on horseback. That ol'boy knows what he's doing. Local Hero fans might like to see Gregory's Girl, a Bill Forsyth film which preceeded Hero by a few years. Same sweet off-beat feel, some of the same characters, though in an urban setting. Worth a rent. |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Llanfair Date: 19 Jun 99 - 12:18 PM I remember the B&Wfilm of How Green Was My Valley, where my name came from, Mum was reading the book when expecting me, but the miners singing on their way to work in the pit always stays with me. I don't suppose miners ever really do that, the local choir aren't even allowed to song in the pub!!!!! Hwyl, Bron. (in long sentence mode today) |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: catspaw49 Date: 19 Jun 99 - 02:07 PM Some favorites, Matewan and Grapes of Wrath, have already been mentioned, but I don't think "Places in the Heart" has come up. It too makes my top ten. Hey seed....Remember Groucho's famous line? He had two "Heidi's" on one show and he quipped, "Okay, I'll call you Heidi-HI and I'll call you Heidi-HO......and you can call me Cab Calloway." catspaw |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: catspaw49 Date: 19 Jun 99 - 02:13 PM Oh yeah, since this is about "individual" scenes and I have to throw in the scene in "Blazing Saddles" where Sheriff Bart encounters Count Basie and his band in the desert. Certainly explains where all that background music comes from! catspaw |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: John Hindsill Date: 19 Jun 99 - 02:34 PM Thanks, Catspaw, I forgot about that scene in Blazing Saddles. I'm sure gonna sleep better now that I KNOW here the music comes from.---John |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: LEJ Date: 19 Jun 99 - 03:11 PM Don M- Absolutely right about the "Men of Harlech" scene in Zulu- brings a lump to my throat everytime I see it. Like the scene from The Man Who Would be King wwhen Sean Connery is standing on the suspension bridge as they cut loose the supports, and he stands proudly and sings, as Michael Kane joins in with tears in his eyes. Can't remember the name of the song, but along the lines of a British Military Hymn. Men of Harlech was also quite moving in A Child's Christmas in Wales , as Dylan Thomas' family all join in the singing of it. John Huston's last film, The Dead , also had a very beautiful moment. The film depicts a dinner attended by a group of arguing and guilt-ridden family members and friends. As the party ends, and the snow begins to fall, an opera singer in attendance is asked to sing a song. The sound fills the darkening house, bringing with it a sense of beauty and healing to all who hear it. Does anyone remember this movie, or the name of that song? LEJ |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Art Thieme Date: 19 Jun 99 - 03:19 PM There are so many: _Bird_---the entire soundtrack. It's the story of Charlie Parker--directed by Clint Eastwood. __Round Midnight__---the entire soundtrack. Stars a wonderful Dexter Gordon as an alcoholic expatriot jazz sax player in Paris. Based on the life of Bud Powell. _Crossroads__ especially the scene where Robert Johnson is recording in a hotel room for John Hammond and Columbia---the mike cord running under a door into the next room---just the way legend says it happened. _To Have and Have Not_---the scenes with Hoagy Carmichael. Some of _The Benny Goodman Story__. The scenes with Gene Krupa and Lionel Hampton & Teddy Wilson and other REAL musicians were great. Steve Allan din't quite make it as Benny however. Too bad 'cause I do like Steve Allen. A film that did it wrong was __Leadbelly__---should've used Michael Cooney to play 12-string instead of the lame musician they chose. Also, _Bound For Glory__ (Woody Guthrie's "story"---had terrible music. Sure would like to find that Young Indiana Jones episode on a video. Those generally were truly well done. Art Thieme
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Peter T. Date: 19 Jun 99 - 03:43 PM The use of the "Missa Luba" in "If" is one of the best soundtracks ever, haunting, violent. "A Hard Day's Night" has to be well up on the list, including the "I Should Have Known Better" scene in the railway car. Helen Morgan's "Bill" in Showboat. Still, the most effective musical moment of all for me is the beautiful healthy young man in Cabaret singing "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" out in the countryside. The camera pans down to reveal that he is a member of the Hitler Youth. The song captures so many reasons why Hitler was so appealing to Germans in the 1930's better than anything else I know. You are sucked in like everyone else for a few brief seconds. That is really using music for cinematic purposes. Brrrrr. Yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: folk1234 Date: 19 Jun 99 - 04:07 PM When I saw the title to this thread two musical scenes immediately popped into my head. As I read through the very fine responses that showed great knowledge of both music and cinema, I began to feel embarrassed at the base level of my instant response. Nevertheless, here they are: The first is the closing scene in "Crying Game" with Loretta Lynn singing I Never Promised You a Rose Garden. The second is from "Boone's In Love" where Kris Kristopherson, quite drunk, is singing an Ode To Chester (the goat). "Gawd is wuz a good ole goat" |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: folk1234 Date: 19 Jun 99 - 04:11 PM Correction to above. Last line should read "Gawd he wuz a good ole goat". |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: MAG (inactive) Date: 19 Jun 99 - 04:25 PM Does anyone know what movie used a version of "This Little Light of Mine?" It was sweet, slow and haunting. Movie had to do with left politics. -- MA |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: katlaughing Date: 19 Jun 99 - 04:41 PM Dave: Thanks for clearing up the names of Richard Farnsworth and the movie. I KNEW he knew his way around horses; he reminds me of my dad so much, in that way and in the way he talks. I could listen to him for hours. LeeJ: I totally forgot about that song in the Man Who WOuld Be King. Thanks for the reminder; it's definitely one of the tops for me, too. reading some of the aboce, I can see there are a few movies I will have to rent. Forgot to mention the music in Brother Sun/ Sister Moon. Also, have any of you seen the First Nudie Musical? Ron Howard, Cindy whatshername, from Happy Days are in it and it is hilarious. There's a scene where a "dumb blonde" NOI came on to the stage to audition. She is totally naked, goes through a suggestive simulation when they ask her to show them what she can do; then they ask if she can sing. She says yes, then launches into a scratchy, off-key, horrible tone, using the word sing. It's truly awful and one of the most memorable moments in teh whole film. There are a couple of other scenes with songs which are priceless. Well worth it to see, lots of laughs. Warning....it is considered "soft-porn". katlaughing & corrupting! |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: searcher45 Date: 19 Jun 99 - 06:27 PM Great thread.... Just heard that "Man Who Would Be King" song on a Mastercard commercial...piano only....don't know the name of it, but Mastercard lost. All I could think of was the Connery/Caine scene....unforgettable. Another movie mentioned, "Cool Hand Luke"; Luke's just received word his ma's died, and he sings "Plastic Jesus", with a banjo, I think. Randy Newman's "The Natural" music is pretty good, especially the (theme/motife/overture ?) thundering when Robert Redford whacks a homer. Speaking of Redford: "Electric Horseman", music by Willie Nelson. (He was in it too.) Espcially the opening, with Willie singing "My Heroes have always been Cowboys". Some other movies mentioned (Green/Valley, Grapes/Wrath) were directed by John Ford. He used the same musical themes in quite a lot of movies. "Lorena" was Ann Rutledge's theme in "Young Abe Lincoln" (Henry Fonda); he used it again in "The Searchers", for Martha, the Duke's lost love. A great effect. My alltime comes from the "Civil War" documentary by Ken Burns. "Ashokan Farewell" is used repeatedly and powerfully, but most of all when Burns uses it to underscore the Sheridan Ballou letter. As a supposed tough guy, I cry like a two year old whenever I hear it. The combination of words and music devastates me. Bill searcher45@hotmail.com
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: WyoWoman Date: 19 Jun 99 - 07:24 PM This is such a great thread. I'm as much a movie hound as a music lover, so this has filled me with longing to head down to the Video Center and load up. Dave -- Between Gregory's Girl and Local Hero was another Forsyth film that I liked a great deal. Can't remember the name of it, though. Can you? |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Dave Swan Date: 19 Jun 99 - 07:35 PM K.C., Comfort and Joy maybe? International Movie Data Base lists Gregory's Girl,1981; Local Hero,1983; Comfort and Joy,1984. Also listed : Gregory's Two Girls, 1998. I have a bad feeling about that. Cheers, Dave |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Rick Fielding Date: 19 Jun 99 - 09:15 PM Remember Merle Travis singing "Re-enlistment Blues", in "From Here To Eternity"? And of course Andy Griffith in "A Face in the Crowd". 'Course, as has been pointed out here on several occasions "Fasted Guitar Alive" with poor Roy Orbison was the all-time worst. I'd nominate Johnnie Guitar" with the hideous (sorry folks) Joan Crawford as second worst. |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: DonMeixner Date: 19 Jun 99 - 10:34 PM LEJ In The Man Who Would Be King that was Bishop Heber's hymn. "The Son of God Goes Forth To War" to the apparent melody of "The Minstarl Boy(The Moreen)". "And Oh, Danny fell, Turning round and round like a penny whirlygig, he fell. He fell for a half an hour. A do you know what they did to poor Peachy then? They crucified him between two pine trees as Peachy's hands will show." I've seen the movie more than a few tims:-). Don |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: SingsIrish Songs Date: 20 Jun 99 - 04:11 AM Lots of terrific scenes mentioned! Many I'd forgotten. Being a fan of Cab Calloway I truly enjoyed "Minnie the Moocher" in The Blues Brothers. And definitely "How Green was My Valley"...and many of the others as well. The two I will add are: Bing Crosby singing Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral in "Going My Way" as a lullaby for the Pastor (Barry Fitzgerald)...then when the tune is reprised (if my memory serves me right) at the end when Fitzgerald's character's Mother shows up...tissue time! Lilies of the Field--when the Nuns and Sidney Poitier's character sing "Amen"...I think it's great! Mary |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Penny S. Date: 20 Jun 99 - 04:37 AM REading of the barn-raising in Seven Brides reminded me of the barn-raising in Witness, and the opening of that with the fields of grass. |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: alison Date: 20 Jun 99 - 06:43 AM Hi, The other Bill Forsyth one you could be thinking of is "Restless natives" where the two heroes ride through Glasgow on a motorbike and hold us buses wearing silly masks. Rick, I had the same thing with "Mist covered Mountains" bought the CD for that track alone basically... I was so disappointed with what they had done to it.... they didn't even play it once through before the synths and strings and wave noises came in and drowned the tune... I wanted it the way it sounded in that hall...... slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Peter T. Date: 20 Jun 99 - 11:16 AM Worst use of music in a contemporary film, the nominees are: David Thewlis playing fake Chopin in "Beseiged" The unsubtle use of various pieces of "telegraph" music, e.g. Bill Withers, "Ain't No Sunshine" in "Notting Hill" The dreary sameness of Star Wars' music (could John Williams please put a folklorist on his staff, so we could get some different local music for each world his people go to, rather than warmed over Erich Korngold/Gustav Holst throughout the Federation -- no wonder people want to rebel) Anyone got a contemporary great moment? Most of the movies now seem to be have soundtracks just to have soundtracks. Something where music is used as an integral part of the movie, and not just as an ironic commentary. Buena Vista Social Club is in a league of its own. Yours, Peter T.
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Rick Fielding Date: 20 Jun 99 - 11:30 AM Paris Texas - Ry Cooder. But what a depressing story! I'd hate to be feeling suicidal when a Harry Dean Stanton film comes on.
Alison, I think Mark Knopfler couldn't be happy with the accordions, bass, Ovation guitar etc. It's a wonderful "little" film isn't it? |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Matthew B. Date: 20 Jun 99 - 11:52 AM Penny, thanks for reminding me of the power of the musical score in Witness, one of my top-ten all time movies, period. (Maybe I should start a thread about that.) And thank you, Mary, for reminding me of the "Amen" scene in Lillies of the Field. Speaking about Goyish religious moments that even I (as a "nice" Jewish boy) could enjoy, there's a scene in the Shirley Temple version of Heidi where they begin to sing Silent Night, which suddenly breaks in midsong (with an inspiring upwards key change) into the same song being sung out on the street, and then back again to them, creating a montage of temporary unity between people, united by this common feeling. And now from the sacred to the profane. Kat, I thought I was the only person in the world who saw The First Nudie Musical and enjoyed it for its musical merits. (Do you think Cindy whatsername had all the copies destroyed?) Do you remember when they hired that "Stunt Cock?" |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Rick Fielding Date: 20 Jun 99 - 12:00 PM Ahahh! Cindy WILLIAMS! Fame is fleeting folks. |
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