Let’s have a thread talking about our favorite uses of songs in movies. Aka “needle drops”. I’ll start. In Under the Silver Lake, Sam investigates the disappearance and ostensible death of his neighbor. This leads him to a local zine maker who tells him elites communicate coded messages through pop culture. Sam goes to a secret rock show at Hollywood Forever cemetery and dances with a girl to R.E.M.’s “What’s the frequency, Kenneth?”. This is a great use of the song and if you know it’s history you know why it was chosen. The title comes from two assailants who kept repeating the phrase while attacking Dan Rather in NYC. Lead singer Michael Stipe said of the song lyrics “I wrote that protagonist as a guy who's desperately trying to understand what motivates the younger generation, who has gone to great lengths to try and figure them out, and at the end of the song it's completely fucking bogus. He got nowhere.” Which mirrors Sam’s journey. The lyrics that seem most relevant being “I'd studied your cartoons, radio, music, TV, movies, magazinesRichard said, "Withdrawal in disgust is not the same as apathy"A smile like the cartoon, tooth for a toothYou said that irony was the shackles of youth”
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes in The Terrorizers
>>220531060In Bugonia, pharmaceutical conglomerates CEO Michelle Fuller sings Chappell Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!” while driving her car. The lyrics of the song are sung from the perspective of a woman addressing another woman who is a closeted lesbian “You can kiss a thousand boys in bars. Shoot another shot. Try to stop the feeling. You can say it’s just the way you are. Make a new excuse another stupid reason.”When we, the audience, watch this scene play out, we might be led to believe Michelle is a lesbian. She’s an independent career woman and lives alone. Later, we might imagine that the lyrics are more evocative of Teddy’s story “It's fine, it's coolYou can say that we are nothing, but you know the truthAnd guess I'm the fool”, “You cry it’s not fair.” But in the end, on rewatch, we realize it’s emblematic of both of theirs. Michelle is living a lie, pretending to be something she’s not, because she’s an alien. The lyrics “I don’t wanna call it off but you don’t wanna call it love. You only wanna be the one that I call baby” evoke the relationship between humanity and their extraterrestrial creator. Teddy is fully aware that he and his fellow humans are being exploited as is Michelle. And if you’ve seen the ending, you know how relevant the final lyrics “You have to stop the world just to stop the feeling.” Are
>>220531060I ain't reading all your drivel.That movie was so terrible.Fuck /tv/ anons that recommended it.
>>220531060Good Will Hunting used the music of Elliott Smith and he was even nominated for “Miss Misery” but I think the song that was most relevant to Will’s story was “Between the Bars.” The song tells the story of a couple as they go bar hopping “Drink up baby, look at the stars. I’ll kiss you again between the bars.” But this is actually a brilliant triple entendre. The “bars” can be interpreted as alcohol dispensaries, the bars of a song, or the metaphorical bars of a prison of the mind. It evokes Arthur Schopenhauer’s Hedgehog Dilemma: you want to be close to someone but upon encroaching on real intimacy, you lash out and cower. Just as Will does to Skylar. Will’s journey to overcome his trauma and escape his self-sabotaging nature are reflected in “With the things you could doYou won't but you mightThe potential you'll be that you'll never seeThe Promises you’ll only make” And his battle with the working class world he comes from and the academic one he could belong to “People you've been beforeThat you don't want around anymoreThat push and shove and won't bend to your willI'll keep them still”
>>220531060Uhhh I'll bite. I like the Kenny Rogers song in The Big Lebowski. End of post.
>>220531464That’s a good one. It’s about an LSD trip and is used during the dude’s psychedelic trip
One that really gets me is in Anal Milfs 11: Funk Town Farthole Pounders. In the 3rd scene staring Foxxxy Cox They play chocolate rain right as she spreads her turdcutter for her white lover, played by Idris Elba.
In Caught Stealing, the protagonist, Hank, is haunted by his trauma from accidentally killing his best friend in a car crash while drinking and driving. He moves to New York City to avoid driving altogether. In the end, two Hasidic Jewish gangsters make him drive (as it’s the sabbath and they cannot) them and he deliberately crashes the car to kill them. The Magnetic Fields’ “Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side” plays over the credits “Cuz I’m the luckiest guy on the lower east side cuz I got wheels and you wanna go for a ride.”
>>220531060>>220531263>>220531443>jeet posting LLM drivelSAGE
>>220531766I’m not ESL I’m semi-drunk
I liked when they used Higher Ground cover by RHCP in the beginning of The Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers movie
>>220531060I'm not reading all that but Turning Teeth is legitimately a banger
>>220531060Drive Angry. Before teaming up with mysterious stranger Nic Cage, Amber Heard is a waitress in a diner with a shitty, sleazy boss. At some point she has enough of his shit, walks out to her 68 Mustang in her Daisy Dukes and cowboy boots combo, recklessly pulls out of the parking lot and races down the country road as Peaches "Fuck the pain away" starts playing.
>>220531060Freemason bullshit
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>>220531060This movie is fucking kino and I showed it to 3 people and none of them liked it.
>>220533471they're stupid>>220531060https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vWYBudloRUI like the music in Herzog joints. The first few seconds of Grizzly Man, it's like calligraphy. Every brush stroke you can see the artist moving across the page, fulsome and strong, strutting. Getting your attention with confidence. I sing the ending theme to myself sometimes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhw-6gZ72JIHere's another good one from his volcano moviehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WCU6vHFHO4
There's this little movie called July Rising(2019). It's free on youtube. Very hallmark-y impressions from the poster but it is deceptively so damn good. In one scene Andy the mc goes on her morning rounds checking on whatever needs jerry rigging on her grandad's pear farm. She spots a malfunctioning sprinkler and promptly comes over to yoink the damn thing into submission. She keeps twistin and jorkin and gherkin on the sprinkler to no avail til finally she falls back defeated. The hissing of the sprinkler mocks Andy as she's sat on her butt with clothes drenched in bukkake by her grandad's irrigation system - its pulsating veiny torrents mirror the unstoppable deluge of adulthood violently redrawing the familiar landscapes of Andy's life in real time geographically, financially and socially. Andy has been totally claimed by material conditions beyond her control and with a sigh of resignation the transition to adulthood is complete. An unknown indieslop plays as Andy mourns for her youth going through all the stages of grief in the span of a stanza. Denial, rage, the whole she bang. The hissing of the sprinkler fades as she moves closer to acceptance til only the beautiful indieslop can be heard. She bids farewell to her dreams as the song goes "Bye now".
>>220533885I like in Con Air when the electric guitar riff hits
>>220532899so hot, so crazy
The scene where Robocop deploys from his lair and the movie theme plays is probably the most fucking fascist scene in American cinema. Here's a guy who's dead, but resurrected by "technology" (really the spirit of the detroit nation reanimated him) and he lives only to root out and destroy evil class enemies, criminals and oligarchs. So it's like the dead man's armor and weapons have gotten up and attacked the enemy while a dread battle march plays, lifted up by love of country and loyalty beyond death.
>>220531060>under water scene>REM song>not Night swimmingholy yikesaroni https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahJ6Kh8klM4
