Best Use of a Song in a Movie

[mshray]

KFOG has an insta-poll up at the Morning Show page, but their choices are limited.  I voted for Reservoir Dogs, but that is actually polling 4th out of 5 right now.

The one that immediately leapt to mind & which I emailed them (there's a link for that, too) was "Sympathy for the Devil" in Coming Home.

You know, the scene where Jane Fonda is working at the VA hospital with her new best friend Vi, & Vi's younger brother Bill* (clearly suffering from acute PTSD) locks himself up in the room & kills himself by injecting air into his bloodstream.  That was (imho) a pretty effective use of a song in a movie.



 
*Bill was played by Robert Carradine of the Carradine acting dynasty, later famous to my generation for being the chief nerd in all the Revenge of the Nerds movies, and known to today's teens as Lizzie McGuire's father.

[ggould]

KFOG has an insta-poll up at the Morning Show page, but their choices are limited.  I voted for Reservoir Dogs, but that is actually polling 4th out of 5 right now.

The one that immediately leapt to mind & which I emailed them (there's a link for that, too) was "Sympathy for the Devil" in Coming Home.

Wasn't the Chambers Bros "Time Has Come" also used intensely?

[Gazoo]

I can't believe anything could beat the use of "Tiny Dancer" and "Mona Lisas & Mad Hatters" in Almost Famous.

[Lightnin' Rod]

In "Two Weeks Notice", the Sandra Bullock/Hugh Grant romantic comedy, Sandra's character has a bad reaction to some food and needs desperately to relieve herself.  Unfortunately, they are stuck on an overpass in dead stopped traffic.  So Hugh comes to the rescue, finding a motor home and pleading with the owners in it to let them in so Sandra can use the motor home's loo.

All to the tune of BTO's "Takin' Care of Business."

Seriously.

[urth]

I'll offer the scene in Testament in which Jane Alexander's character, and her son, both suffering from radiation sickness, dance to "All My Loving."

Never cried more in a movie in my life.

[RGMike]

I'll offer the scene in Testament in which Jane Alexander's character, and her son, both suffering from radiation sickness, dance to "All My Loving."

Never cried more in a movie in my life.

Me too -- and I almost NEVER cry at movies. But I cried pretty much continuously for the last 45 mins of Testament.

and re: Coming Home -- its soundtrack is virtually ALL songs of the period (I don't think there's an actual orchestral underscore at all) and I always liked the use of the Stone's "Out of Time" to set up Bruce Dern's character at the beginning.

[urth]

In "Two Weeks Notice", the Sandra Bullock/Hugh Grant romantic comedy, Sandra's character has a bad reaction to some food and needs desperately to relieve herself.  Unfortunately, they are stuck on an overpass in dead stopped traffic.  So Hugh comes to the rescue, finding a motor home and pleading with the owners in it to let them in so Sandra can use the motor home's loo.

All to the tune of BTO's "Takin' Care of Business."

Seriously.

Rod, did you email this to Dave? 'Cuz when my clock radio went on this morning around 7, they were talking about this subject, and Dave read essentially what you wrote about this film. Coincidence or evidence of lurking?

[Lightnin' Rod]

In "Two Weeks Notice", the Sandra Bullock/Hugh Grant romantic comedy, Sandra's character has a bad reaction to some food and needs desperately to relieve herself.  Unfortunately, they are stuck on an overpass in dead stopped traffic.  So Hugh comes to the rescue, finding a motor home and pleading with the owners in it to let them in so Sandra can use the motor home's loo.

All to the tune of BTO's "Takin' Care of Business."

Seriously.

Rod, did you email this to Dave? 'Cuz when my clock radio went on this morning around 7, they were talking about this subject, and Dave read essentially what you wrote about this film. Coincidence or evidence of lurking?

I emailed him, cut and pasting what I wrote here.  Too bad I was asleep at the time.

[mshray]

Here's another golden nugget thread from the past that deserves to be re-upped, especially since I saw The Wrestler & would now at least give their use of "Round And Round" a VHM.

[RGMike]

Here's another golden nugget thread from the past that deserves to be re-upped, especially since I saw The Wrestler & would now at least give their use of "Round And Round" a VHM.

"and then that pussy Cobain had to come along and ruin everything!" 

BTW, I noted in the closing credits that they used a soundalike version by a Ratt tribute band (!) -- did Ratt want too much money? I know it was a low-budget indie, but jeez.