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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: catspaw49 Date: 20 Jun 99 - 12:17 PM Embassing Admission of the Day: I actually bought a copy of that movie on VHS. Lots of T & A but no Cindy T & A. What a gyp! catspaw (it does have it's moments though!) |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: bseed(charleskratz) Date: 20 Jun 99 - 01:01 PM I don't remember the name of the movie: it was about an infantry squad in WWII. At the end of the movie, when the squad, after terrible combat, is relieved from the line only to be impressed into duty on Christmas day as a firing squad for a deserter--the movie ends with a helicopter's view of the execution, a pop version of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" the sound track at the time. --seed |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Penny S. Date: 20 Jun 99 - 01:39 PM One that stuck in my mind for ages was from "Lord of the Flies", the earlier, British version with choirboys, where they process singing Kyrie eleison, which tune then mutates as the boys lose their innocence. I ran back to college from the cinema after that, as one who on a lonesome road doth know that something is behind... Penny |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: katlaughing Date: 20 Jun 99 - 04:06 PM MatthewB.: I used to sell advertising to a Curtis Mathis tv dealership. This was before video stores and in the time of early vcrs. The guys who owned it were always sharing the latest of their budding "lending library" with me. Knowing my penchant for bawdiness, they made sure I saw the First Nudie Musical. They would often lend us a vcr for the weekend with various movies to watch. 'Spaw, I know I wrote about it before or told someone on here about it. Hope you didn't buy it and then were dissappointed on my recommendation. Matthew, I do remember the "Stud Cock". Do you remember the "Bitch Bull Dyke"? No offense intended anyone! Back to the music: how about the soundtrack from Pulp Fiction? My daughter and I almost wore out her cd of it. katlaughing |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: bseed(charleskratz) Date: 20 Jun 99 - 04:27 PM Kat, I don't remember any of the music from it, but have you seen "Pecker"? If you haven't, rent it--it's a real gas. --seed |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: katlaughing Date: 20 Jun 99 - 05:16 PM Wel, errrr...no Seed, I haven't. Is it about a really aggressive chicken??? :>) I'll see if we can get it at the local video store, right? kat |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: bseed(charleskratz) Date: 20 Jun 99 - 05:22 PM No, and not about the other thing you're thinking about. It's about a photographer nicknamed Pecker--it may be last year's funniest movie. --seed |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Peter T. Date: 20 Jun 99 - 05:32 PM Walter Lanz, right? yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: catspaw49 Date: 20 Jun 99 - 05:35 PM Of course PT, you're right!!!!!!!!!Who could have a woody without ol' Walt........certainly not Bob Dole. catspaw |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: bseed(charleskratz) Date: 20 Jun 99 - 05:39 PM Steve--the Monty Python song that got me was the crucifiction chorus at the end of "Life of Brian." --seed |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Penny S. Date: 20 Jun 99 - 06:07 PM I really tried hard not to mention that. Penny |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: The Shambles Date: 20 Jun 99 - 06:43 PM "Always look on the bright side of life". I need some help on this one, as I can't remember the title. It was a British made morale booster of the 40s. The scene is one where a number of British POWs are about to be repatriated on board a vessel that is just about to sail. A German song is heard over a PA system and Jack Warner (he of Dixon Of Dock Green fame), lifts his head up and shouts out, "come on lads, let's give 'em a song of our own". He starts to sing, on his own, 'Roll Out The Barrel' and soon the whole ship is singing it, drowning out the PA. I'm sorry I can't go on, I am a little choked up after that. |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Rick Fielding Date: 20 Jun 99 - 07:08 PM Jeez Catspaw, if not seeing Cindy Williams starkers ruins your day (by the way she had breast implant surgery immediately before Laverne and Shirley) I better suggest a film made by the same people: "If you Don't Stop it You'll Go Blind!" It's a T and A satirical comedy with a lot of New York revue actors. It stars Allan Garfield who must be the only actor EVER to work constantly in straight films (you'd recognize him) and porn flicks. A sequel made about a year after was called "Can I do It Til I Need Glasses?" I swear I'm not making this up, and I'm not a visitor to the local shady cinema. I just have a peculiar memory that stores the most unlikely information. On the other hand I can't remember what I had for lunch today! |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: GUy Wolff Date: 20 Jun 99 - 09:46 PM I'm so glad to see this thread still going...I guess I'm what you might call a vidioholic....{AT least thats what my local vedio store calls me} Ok ,Ok.. so in "Leap of Faith" when their putting up the tent and the gosple chorus is practicing {Do they change keys three times acapella} I think the name of the song is "I've Been Loneley">>>Wow>>>>>Patty Labell is just one of the voices>>>>> I also love the remake of the old BRoadway song about not Rocking the boat at the begining of that movey sung by the Guy with the high voice from the Eagles{ HE played the drums?}On Broadway it went SIT DOWN SIT DOWN SIT DOWN SIT DOWN, SIT DOWN YOUR ROCKIN THE BOAT!>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I ALSO LOVE ALMOST EVERYTHING FROM THE MOVIE..."TAPE-HEADS"....No Realy....Sam from SAM and DAVE and Junior WALker << |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Art Thieme Date: 21 Jun 99 - 12:47 AM In __Moby Dick__ the shantyman is none other than the great A.L. (Bert) Lloyd himself---singin' the sails up as the Pequod prepares for sea. In the film __Blink__ there's a fine celtic band from Chicago's Irish community. The heroine in the story is the fiddler for the band. (One of the guys in the band is Sean Clelland but I don't recall anyone else's name.) Several scenes were done in the NO EXIT COFFEEHOUSE where I sang for 37 years. The No Exit faces the very real possibility that it will be closing for good on June 30th, 1999. It seems that all that'll keep it going would be for the current management to win the lottery. It'll be the end of a unique era that began in the Jack Kerouacian beatnik days when nobody else knew what an espresso machine was. Check out Michael Smith's wonderful song, "ELIZABETH DARK", for a musical tribute to the No Exit without ever mentioning the name of this wondrous place that was my home away from home for all those years. The more things change, the more they get different! Art Thieme |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: darkriver Date: 21 Jun 99 - 01:34 AM bseeed-- was that WWII movie you mentioned "A Midnight Clear"? LEJ and Herge-- that theme was sung by Clannad, wasn't it? Definitely an Irish tonality for a story about a white man raised by Indians in the Hudson River valley in the 1600s. Searcher45--Yeah, John Ford does use (did use) the same music over and over--his favorite seems to be that hymn "We'll all gather by the river", which he uses in every funeral or burial scene of any movie he made. Everyone else-- I have to agree with all of you about your choices. I've seen all these movies and the music in all of them is memorable. (How's that for agreeable?) There was also a relatively recent movie with Meryl Streep as a river-rafting guide (I forget the title), which had an absolutely haunting version of "The Water Is Wide". doug |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: darkriver Date: 21 Jun 99 - 01:48 AM --I forgot to mention (but so has everyone else) that Stanley Kubrick was famous for the music he chose for his films--at least, since 2001. It took me a long time to get Handel's Sarabande (the theme from Barry Lyndon) out of my head. Terence Malick, who's made only three movies (haven't seen his latest, The Thin Red Line), also has memorable classically-composed music in his movies. Carl Orff's "Musica Poetica" in Badlands comes to mind. doug |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: bseed(charleskratz) Date: 21 Jun 99 - 02:03 AM I don't know, Darkriver--it doesn't sound right, but I can't be sure. --seed "Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat" is from Guys and Dolls, the scene where all the gamblers come to the mission. Leap of Faith had terrific music all the way through. I thought it was a fine movie, though generally badly reviewed. Steve Martin was at his best (I'd still like to see a movie in which he plays the banjo--he doesn't look like a banjo player, but he sure is). --seed |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: catspaw49 Date: 21 Jun 99 - 02:13 AM Well Rick, much as I hate to admit it, I saw both of those. We must have some similar weirdness in film tastes (hint of vanilla...sorry). So I don't suppose this is the time to get into a discussion about an earlier period in my life...and perhaps yours...when I was the Roger Ebert/Gene Siskel of such epics as "Autobiography of a Flea" and "1001 Danish Delights," which may be the funniest hatlapper I ever saw. catspaw |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: alison Date: 21 Jun 99 - 04:29 AM Doug, It was called "The river wild" Meryl Streep and Kevin Bacon... good movie, nice scenery. Slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Steve Latimer Date: 21 Jun 99 - 12:06 PM Rick, Catspaw, I too saw those. At a Drive-in no less. I sure miss drive-ins. I don't believe anyone has mentioned Judy Garland doing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" in the Wizard of Oz. How about My Way in Sid and Nancy? What a happy little love story that was. |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Penny S Date: 21 Jun 99 - 12:12 PM Cliche, but Casablanca, and La Marseillaise? Penny |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Rick Fielding Date: 21 Jun 99 - 12:21 PM Catspaw, I'm afraid we must be related in some way. This, of course could be bad news to our spousal units who obviously did not set out to find husbands who's main occupation was "eccentric". Steve, sorry for not getting back to you on your "pick-up" question, this weekend but I've been feeling like rat-shit and am just starting to function (somewhat) normally. Watched "Sid and Nancy" last night and it didn't help. |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Lowcountry Date: 21 Jun 99 - 12:28 PM Y'all might not believe this, but the scene in "The Muppet Review" where Paul Williams plays the piano and sings "That's a Sad Song," with all the little muppets gathered around belting out the chorus, will melt your heart. |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Steve Latimer Date: 21 Jun 99 - 01:09 PM Rick, Don't worry about not getting back to me, she is going to borrow a Dean Markley Promag that a friend recommended. Hopefully this does the trick. I can't say I enjoyed the scene, but I thought the Stuck in the Middle With You scene in Reservoir Dogs was memorable. |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Matthew B. Date: 21 Jun 99 - 01:30 PM Kat, the music for Pulp Fiction was actually a Greek folk dance tune called Miserlu, played with electronic distortion (and at a fater tempo). Rick, Cindy Williams was completely clothed throughout the First Nudie Musical. Believe me, I had a thing for her back then and I would have kept coming back to the theater. I agree that 2001 also made GREAT use of music throughout. But there's also a recent film called Smoke Signals that makes brilliant use of Native American music for very powerfule effect (including a song about John Wayne's teeth, played in the style of a war chant).
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: The Shambles Date: 21 Jun 99 - 02:40 PM Art Was the heroine of the Chicago movie played by Madeline Stowe (I like her) and was her character blind? If it was the same one, the music was good, if a little bit too incidental. |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Peter T. Date: 21 Jun 99 - 02:52 PM More random movie notes: Another vote for "Over the Rainbow". I lived in Kansas, so it brings back memories. Her version of "(Dear Mr. Gable) You Made Me Love You" in one of the Big Broadcast films (I think) was also memorable. Also Bing Crosby (old!) singing "True Love" to Grace Kelly (young!) in High Society -- bad movie, good song. Anton Karas' music in The Third Man. Herrmann's Citizen Kane, Psycho and Vertigo! (How's that for a hat trick?) Bad moments: Irene Dunne jiving (that black blood) in "Showboat". Warped Beatle history in "Backbeat" Ecological fascism in "The Circle of Life" (Elton John's Lion King soundtrack: also known as Music to Eat Smaller Animals By) How about the twin girls chanting "Mothra" in the film of the same name? (joke) yours, Peter T.> |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Date: 21 Jun 99 - 03:05 PM Art, where is the NO EXIT COFFEEHOUSE you were speaking about? annap |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Bert Date: 21 Jun 99 - 03:06 PM Not that it was particularly great music, but for a scene where the music was perfect for the mood was the opening credits of Carry on Cowboy. |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: LEJ Date: 21 Jun 99 - 05:45 PM Soundtrack for Slingblade by Quebecer Daniel Lanois, and especially "The Maker", the song that played over the credits at the end. I heard a version of The Maker on the radio, and thought "Man, Daniel sounds thin and anemic!" Turned out to be Willie Nelson doing a cover.NOI! LEJ |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Rick Fielding Date: 21 Jun 99 - 05:49 PM Peter T. For over 25 years I tried to get the sound-track for "The Third Man", with no luck. A couple of years ago a listener to the radio show sent me "The World of Anton Karras", and it's glorious. They've spliced some of "Third Man" together but I can live with it. Never has music been more evocotive than that. It reeks with German decadence, even though the film was set in a much less decadent era. |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Peter T. Date: 21 Jun 99 - 06:41 PM Dadadum-dadadadumm; dadadum-dadadadumm: the leaves fall in the dying autumn breeze almost as if plucked out of the sky by the music, the lady walks the cemetery road contemptuously passing Holly Martins (the Canadian!) who (poor fool!!) still wanders out of his depth, the failed cowboy hero, the reluctant Judas....and in the wind hovers the ghost of the third man who always walks beside them, down the road of this twisted Emmaus -- Vienna seethes with post-war decadence; and in the far distance the Prater Ferris Wheel, symbol of fate, turns! dadadadadumdadadadummmdumdum!! (sorry, got carried away there) Yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Terry Date: 21 Jun 99 - 07:00 PM KC: "Local Hero" and "Gregory's Girl" are among my favorite films, too. I thought the name of the other Forsyth film is "Experience Preferred But Not Necessary." Or, am I thinking of Sayles ...? |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Blue Date: 21 Jun 99 - 07:03 PM Does anybody remember that gripping scene at the beginning of Tender Mercies, where Robert Duvall wakes up all hung over in a flea-bag motel, and the sun is shining in through the blinds, and he stumbles over and peers out at the world,(It's already well into the day, and a farmer in overalls and a straw hat is gassing up his pickup and chatting cheerfully with the proprietress; they've probably been up five hours, and he's nasty and flat broke)and a song begins: "See that cloud up in the sky, slowly drifting by ... and it hurts so bad to face reality." It portrays a person who has hit rock bottom--and the music is PERFECT." |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: WyoWoman Date: 22 Jun 99 - 01:07 AM Since several of you have expressed such (deserved) affection for Cab Calloway, you might want to know that his daughter Chris Calloway is singing in Santa Fe, N.M., living precisely the same life so many musicians live -- working the day gig to support the music gig. She's fabulous and, I believe, way under-appreciated. (She was there when I lived in Santa Fe three years ago and there when I went back to visit last year, so I assume she's still there.) Santa Fe's a hard place for anyone to make a living, but especially a jazz singer! KC |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Easy Rider Date: 22 Jun 99 - 10:20 AM Does anybody remember the music from "Easy Rider", 1969, Peter Fonda, et al? It was done by Steppenwolf:
"Get out on the highway, looking for adventure, Fire all of your guns at once and explode into space. I'm a true nature's child. I was born to be wild. Born to be wi-i-ild, born to be wi-i-ild..." EZR |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Date: 22 Jun 99 - 12:49 PM In Doctor Strangelove, I thought the way music was used to enhance the irony of the film was wonderful. It opens with a jet fueling a bomber in mid-air while the sound track was playing "Try a little tenderness", and at the end, when the bombs were going off, they used "we'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when..., but we'll meet again, sweetheart" There probably were others, but I can't recall them right now..I'm going to have to go out and buy that tape. annap |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: emily rain Date: 22 Jun 99 - 02:31 PM i loved the scene from My Best Friend's Wedding where the sisters sang "the way you look tonight" with perfect parallel thirds... gave me chills. peter t. : don't dis High Society! i love that movie! especially bing and a decidedly drunken frank sinatra belting out "well did you evah?" at the pre-wedding shindig. |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Peter T. Date: 22 Jun 99 - 03:18 PM emily, we will have to agree to disagree about High Society. It is a ripoff of one of the great movies, The Philadelphia Story. It is not as bad a ripoff as "Silk Stockings" was of "Ninotchka" ("Silk Stockings" should be burned by the public executioner), but grim, grim, grim. Cole Porter, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, and Grace Kelly together could not rescue it -- if that isn't the measure of a turkey, I don't know what is! It is like Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe in "The Prince and The Showgirl" - what happened? how could such wonderful people be in such dreariness? It is like listening to Emmanuelle Beart give the keynote speech at an Insurance Brokers Convention. (apologies of course to all insurance brokers and French movie fans) yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Jack (who is called Jack) Date: 22 Jun 99 - 03:19 PM I loved Cotton Eyed Joe from the dance scene in Places in the Heart, voice over and soundtrack provided by Doc Watson don't ya know? Say Amen Somebody is high on my list, just because of the insight into Thomas Dorsey and the real life of Gospel Singers. I agree with everyone who loved Mark Knopfler's soundtrack to Local Hero. The Round Midnight soundtrack fills my soul with longing and melancholy to this day. For guilty pleasure, I LOVE any good soundtrack from a classic black & white giant monster movie (King Kong, Godzilla, Beast from 20,000 fathoms). All those heavy low brass exclaimations at critical moments BA-BA-BA-BUM!. And has anyone else seen the recent movie 'Little Voice'? What'd ya think? |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Alice Date: 22 Jun 99 - 04:03 PM I liked everything done in the COMMITTMENTS, including the rehearsals and the people who show up to audition. Favorites - Destination Anywhere, Take me to the River, Chain of Fools, Do Right Woman .
"I Get No Kick From Champagne" - Blazing Saddles
Anything Bing Crosby sang, but a classic was "The Road To Morocco" ride on the back of the camel.
"Everything's Up To Date in Kansas City" - Oklahoma
"Dude, Look Like a Lady" - Mrs. Doubtfire, vacuuming.
Bernadette Peters playing the coronet on the beach and singing with Steve Martin
The backyard Flamenco/Paso Doble lesson from "Strictly Ballroom"
"If I Were a Rich Man" and "Matchmaker" - Fiddler on the Roof
"Nothing Like A Dame" - South Pacific
"Can You Picture That" Dr. Tooth and his band in the old church in the Muppet Movie. ... aurora boreALIS shinin' down in Dallas, can you picture that?
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: The Shambles Date: 22 Jun 99 - 04:34 PM Jimmie Durante singing, the wonderful 'Young At Heart', as Billy Crystal rides through the cows in City Slickers. And what was the song that Steve Martin and Co sang around the campfire, in The Three Amigos? |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Matthew B. Date: 22 Jun 99 - 05:10 PM Danny Kaye singing Inchworm in the movie Hans Christian Andersen The "triplets" and "shoe shine" scenes in Bandwagon Every song in Mary Poppins The scene in Casablanca when they drown out the Germans by singing the La Marseillaise. The musical duel between the baroque trumpet and the male soprano in Farinelli (an extremely underrated gem of a movie) The scene in Back to the Future when he introduces Rock & Roll to the 1955 prom The threatening music that signals the looming approach of the shark in Jaws (without which that shark isn't scary at all). The scene in Schindler's List where the children are being led to their deaths as if they were being taken on a school picnic, while we hear a children's chorus in the soundtrack singing the Yiddish lullabye Oifn Pripetshik |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Lonesome EJ Date: 22 Jun 99 - 08:05 PM Shambles-"Blue Shadows on the Trail...Little Cowboy, go to sleep....All the other dogies are in the corral... all their work is done..." Can't remember the rest |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: AndyG Date: 23 Jun 99 - 07:00 AM
Restless Natives (mentioned above);
Oh What a Lovely War (the film) is more like a multi-media presentation of "Perceptions of WWI" than a musical but the audio/visual contrasts are sometimes stunning. Especially Maggie Smith's "On Sunday I Walk Out with a Soldier" from the opening and "And When The Ask Us" at the close.
Does anybody other than me remember the hurdy-gurdy music that scores The Duelist. Just perfect for the film.
Then, of course, there's What's Opera Doc
AndyG |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Lowcountry Date: 23 Jun 99 - 09:48 AM The waltz scene in "Age of Innocence", shot from overhead, was mezmerizing. |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Mr. D. Date: 23 Jun 99 - 04:31 PM In one of the Pink Panther movies, the one about the swimming pool, etc., a transvestite sings an absolutley gorgeous love song in a caberet. Great song, great voice, great scene. |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: emily rain Date: 23 Jun 99 - 06:29 PM "Jamie Baby" from Truly Madly Deeply alan rickman playing his cello as if it were a bass guitar, juliet stevens dancing and whooping and singing lustily, then the rousing piano-duet-finale, suddenly inturrupted by the obnoxious sister ringing the obnoxious doorbell! quick! hide under the piano! |
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Subject: RE: Great musical movie scenes From: Penny S. Date: 23 Jun 99 - 07:26 PM "Brush up your Shakespeare...." from Kiss Me Kate - just an excuse to bring up "Midsummer Night's Dream" Have a good one! And hey, the fernseed doesn't work! Penny |
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