Thursday, May 1, 2008

A really tough question.

I love getting questions from readers and difficult questions are even better.

Doug from Los Angeles, CA. Has sent me this doozy.

"In reading your blog it has become clear to me that you are a big fan of movies and music. You can learn a lot about someone from their taste in entertainment. So my question to you is this. What are your favorite music moments in film?"

Wow, such a good question, were to begin? First I will warn you that these are in no particular order, I will just write this and see what falls outta my head. Second, all media is fair game, movies, cartoons and television. That out of the way, here I go.
The first thing that pops up is the two big musical moments in Zoolander, the gasoline fight and the part in the mine where Zoolander poses to "Workin' for the weekend". Wham and Loverboy using their cheesy, crappiness to make us chuckle.
Of course the full score of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly but especially the big final stare down, absolute shivers from that scene. Thank you Sergio Leone. The Magnificent Seven is another western with a fantastic score but no real stand out scenes.
The opening of score of Hellraiser is simple but really good. So is the opening of the made for TV miniseries of The Stand, where they plat Blue Oyster Cult's, Don't Fear The Reaper as they pan the camera over all the dead bodies.
There is a little known movie called Thrashin' and the hero of the film escapes some guys on his skateboard to Wild in the Streets by The Circle Jerks. Not a great film but I love that song. The flick Repo Man is just an all around good movie full of good music and if you haven't seen it you should.
Reservior Dogs, Stuck in the Middle With You, enough said. Let's face it Terantino has had a few great music moments in his films.
There are so many great music moment on film, I could go on forever but i will stop on my all time favorite. It was one moment that I remember from my childhood and I hold it near to my heart to this day. It is the episode of Bugs Bunny called "Rabbit of Seville" and it is by far my favorite musical film moment. If you see the screen below you, click play and enjoy.

I hope that answers your question a little bit Doug, thanks for writing.

1 comment:

scarletharlot said...

...completely concur with the final piece listed. (and love ya just that extra little bit for it...)