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Was watching Kermode doing a program about the run up to the Oscars and was reminded about the way that certain tracks and music scores just nail a scene in to your brain.
Two (for me) for starters .
Platoon - final scene
The Graduate - final scene
Baby Driver pretty much every scene.
Opening scene from Magnolia, One is the loneliest number.
There will be Blood
2001 A Space Odyssey.
Opening scene from Jaws
All the fight scenes from the The Matrix especially the one that goes dun, dun, d d d dun d dun d dun
Bo Rap in Wayne's World.
Grosse point blank, a collection of songs that created a nostalgic tone.
and the original star wars movies were perfectly scored IMO (even though I am not a fan of the films).
Most of them in Pulp Fiction.
Reservoir Dogs - Stuck in the Middle With You
The outrageous stupid cop scene from Three Billboards (Monsters of Folk - His Master's Voice)
The Good the Bad & The Ugly stareout
Grosse point blank.
In my head the Ultimart firefight (and subsequent shop explosion) has Live and Let Die playing loudly over it. But I just checked on YouTube and it doesn't! Excellent soundtrack, excellent film.
There will be Blood
That's a great example of music enhancing an entire film and not just a scene.
A couple of Hanz Zimmer ones stand out for me.
Sea Wall from Bladerunner 2049.
Mombassa from Inception.
I'm sure there's a scene in Bullitt where he's in an underground garage. There just this BASS noise. It's brilliant.
The dollar westerns are full of it
The Untouchables - the bit where Sean Connery's dying
This Mortal Coil in "The Lovely Bones" 😥
The opening scene of Justice League with Sigrid.
It pretty much was the high spot of the film sadly.
Drive (2011) - Opening Credits Scene - Car Chase
Closing scene of Fight Club. It's just perfect.
Donnie Darko - All of it.
On a slight tangent there must quite a lot of films that are famous/popular/well known for the music, some of the films already mentioned would apply
Jaws
Deliverance
Close Encounters
Rocky
Omen
The Untouchables – the bit where Sean Connery’s dying
Spoiler alert, FFS! 😉
Bladerunner, all of it.
Interstellar , docking scene
In my head the Ultimart firefight (and subsequent shop explosion) has Live and Let Die playing loudly over it.
I would have agreed with you, I wonder if the American and UK soundtracks were tweaked for their respective audiences. I believe that does sometimes happen (although not as much now in the world of downloaded distribution).
Deliverance - Ah yes, Ry Cooder. Absolutely brilliant - see also
"Paris, Texas".
Dead Man. Neil Young's guitar is just mesmerising.
Psycho
Would agree with Star Wars, but then there is a reason John Williams has been scoring movies for decades. Either Free Fallin or Secret Garden in Jerry Maguire spring to mind. Also AC DC's Thunder in Planes 2, gets my boys bouncing round the room.
Unchained Melody in Ghost.
Seriously though - anything by John Williams or Hans Zimmerman. I heard the opening bit to Star Wars on the radio the other day and the hairs stood up on the back of my neck - it still gets me every time.
The Adagietto from Mahler's 5th Symphony - "Death in Venice".
Beethoven's 9th Symphony - "A Clockwork Orange".
The Man in Me (Bob Dylan), Dead Flowers (Townes van Zandt) - "The Big Lebowski" (but not the Eagles man).
Interstellar , docking scene
I’d say all of it, from the very moment it starts right to the end credits.
The fight scene in The Fifth Element while the Diva sings (3.10 mins in).
Good call with Bladerunner 2049 it merges perfectly throughout almost as if it was part of the sound effects. Has to be watched at loud, very loud.
Drive (2011) – Opening Credits Scene – Car Chase
Awesome soundtrack, very good film too.
For me, a film that was utter gash, and completely made by the soundtrack - Highlander.
pretty much all films are enhanced by music, question is whether you remember it or not. I'd struggle to think of a film with rubbish music 🙂 anyway
Psycho
All of Cinema Paridiso
Bit gory warning...
lust for life in Trainspotting
Tron Legacy - All of it.
Bit of a Clint Mansell fan here, stemming from this...
The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
As mentioned above, Kavinsky - Nightcall
The final scene of The Mission (De Niro, Irons etc.).
The dollar westerns are full of it
pretty much all films are enhanced by music
it interesting that the opening scene from his once upon a time in the west is so epic with no music just the creak of the wind water pump.
Oh and Scotty doesn't know, Eurotrip 😀
As a full score 'spy game' is excellent
Spaghetti '60 seconds to what'
actual song - 'waiting for a star to fall' in '3 men and a little lady'
The opening of 28 Days later - just the way it builds...
& the opening of Watchmen...
pretty much all films are enhanced by music
Yup! try one without:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/Tj-GZJhfBmI
The film is an accompaniment to the music. The music sets the emotion, it dictates the pace of the shots and the edit. The footage is practically unbearable on its own.
🤩
Risky Business has a tremendous score.
Fallen, with Denzel Washington.
I remember watching this when it first came out in the late 90's and right up to the final scene, I was thinking it was an okaaay movie, but not brilliant. Then Sympathy for the Devil kicks in, and pretty much made the entire movie for me. Still makes me smile when I think about it.
I think the music in Drive is cheesy and intrusive personally. Intrusive doesn't make for scene enhancement... But hey ho. 🙂
Free Blood at the beginning of 127 Hours is a stormer. Nice bit of desert MTB too.
Anyone mentioned the helicopter dog chase at the start of The Thing? I still remember that from seeing the film the first time at the cinema. One of the best.
Starts about 2min 30s
Animal House - Louie Louie 😆
Apocalypse Now, ride of the Valkyries
Jaws
Matrix films
2001
Alien (seriously, listen to the soundtrack, its really disturbing and should not be used as a revision concentration aid)
Jail break scene in Natural Born Killers.
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Nothing’s gonna stop us now by starship in The Mannequin :-).
Good choices already btw.
The final scene in last of the Mohicans. Just wouldn't be the same without the music.
Highlander - epic film and epic Queen soundtrack!!
final scene in "heat"
the whole of "moon" but that goes for most clint mansell soundtracks
title scene in zombieland
Couple of dark ones!
Lost highway: song to the siren
Requiem for a dream: lux aeterna
I think the music during the snow sword fight scene between Uma Thurman and Lucy Lui really adds to the mood at the end of Kill Bill Vol 1.
Also not a particular scene, but the soundtrack by Nick Cave to the Australian film The Proposition adds to that film.
Just remembered about Vangelis' score for The Bounty. Great during many scenes when the action gets really tense.
Kate Bush 'This Woman's Work' in She's Having A Baby.
You'd be a hard man to not break at that scene.
Hard to imagine the film The Graduate without Simon & Garfunkel adding to the soundtrack..
Mrs Robinson, hard to think which came first the Song or the Film..
And another, not that I really liked the film much 🧟♂️
But The Exorcist has an instant “urrrgh” feeling when the theme starts up..
You may not have liked it at the time, but the theme really did fit the feel and moment in Miami back then..
And instantly recognisable, and did enhance the film by some merit (IMO)
Last of the Mohicans
For those interested in the effect music has on a film, you may want to watch/set your recorders for this
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002pf6
This one is iconic IMO, instantly takes you back to the late 70’s, evokes images of grime ridden streets and trashy living.. and you tap your toes to it.
Again, another that deflects from the more grim scenes of the film and sort of leaves you feeling “yeah, good film man” ( if you remove the rather grotty gang bang scene that is )
Lego Batman movie, first fight scene..."you wanna get nuts?"
Also hawkman battle in Flash Gordon
Ha when I mentioned Lebowski earlier I'd forgotten that scene. Oh and you know what? For the first time I realised it uses an Eagles song (the dude despises the Eagles) to represent his nemesis in the bowling league. How have I missed that all these years?
A cool "live" cover of Crockett's theme
A Clockwork Orange.
Mostly Rossini for the nasty bits.
Brilliant film of one of my favourite books.
Guardians of the Galaxy 1 and 2 - brilliant soundtrack, especially the first scene in Guardians 2.