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gryphonrhi

Friday Fannish Five

Aug 28, 2009 12:31

Today's question from fannish5: Name five effective uses of songs in movies or TV shows.

6. (Because I remembered it and couldn't leave it out.) X-Files, Mulder listening to Nick Cave's "Red Right Hand" while driving up Skyland Mountain.

5. Highlander, the movie. Yes, most of the songs in that movie were written for it (and work amazingly well, too ( Read more... )

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moljn August 28 2009, 18:40:31 UTC

Watchmen did some great stuff with its music. Very in-your-face, at least in the beginning, but it worked.

gryphonrhi August 28 2009, 19:50:46 UTC

::nodding:: Witchblade was also very blunt in some of their music choices.

rike_tikki_tavi August 28 2009, 19:24:23 UTC

Victor/Victoria: Watching Robert Preston and Julie Andrews doing You and Me can shake me out of pretty much any funk.

gryphonrhi August 28 2009, 19:42:14 UTC

::laughing:: I was thinking that "Shady Dame from Seville" is another one of those classic uses, yes! I love that movie.

rike_tikki_tavi August 28 2009, 19:57:12 UTC

Yep, Shady Dame is also very good for defunking, but I just love the affection between those two in You and Me. And now you made me crave musicals so I dug out my copy of An American in Paris and am currently watching Gene Kelly charming a whole gaggle of french urchins.

gryphonrhi August 28 2009, 20:06:33 UTC

Oh, god, not only do I not have a copy, I've never seen all of it! ::goes to add it to my Amazon list!::

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sundara August 28 2009, 22:55:14 UTC

Musicals! My favorite thing. My dad was the original fanboy...I grew up on movies. He's 87 now and has lived with me for the last 5 yrs...and I swear he'll live forever as long as the cable keeps working and I keep buying DVDs.

As for music, I have to also add Showboat w/ Grayson, Keel and Gardner with some beautiful songs, mmm. Or South Pacific, Music Man, Guys n' Dolls, Call Me Madam (I adore the duet that Merman & OConnor sings in that!) and a Xmas classic, White Christmas--*love*.

In a different direction, I so adored the soundtrack to Medicine Man that I bought it...some of the most gorgeous instrumental themes and pieces as background to the scenes. Ditto, strangely enough, with the new Star Trek movie...there's a couple of themes from that which are incredibly gorgeous and really add to the movie.

gryphonrhi August 29 2009, 18:39:55 UTC

Oh, yeah, I seriously considered putting White Christmas in the list! Glad your dad's going strong, and congrats on all the writing you're doing lately!

shrewreader August 30 2009, 05:07:05 UTC

Re (1) -- to say nothing of "Come and go with me to that land" while Scully's playing baseball, and "Walking in Memphis" for the kid of the freak show.

gryphonrhi August 30 2009, 20:52:09 UTC

Yeah, they did some good music use in X-Files.