Music based on/inspired by Movies

On London Calling, Joe Strummer (R.I.P.) of the Clash sings about screen icon Montgomery Clift, and he names movies and goes into personal details of Clift's life. The band's music consists of some weird yet intoxicating blend of a marching beat, stirring brass, and a spoonful of sweet reggae. (I added Elvis' first album for rock 'n' roll fans. )




"The Right Profile" by the Clash (Written by Mick Jones & Joe Strummer)


Say, where did I see this guy?
In Red River?
Or A Place in the Sun?
Maybe the Misfits?
Or From Here to Eternity?

Everybody say, "Is he all right?"
And everybody say, "What's he like?"
And everybody say, "He sure look funny."
That's...Montgomery Clift, honey!

New York, New York, 42nd Street
Hustlers rustle and pimps pimp the beat
Monty Clift is recognized at dawn
He ain't got no shoes and his clothes are torn

And everybody say, "Is he all right?"
And everybody say, "What's he like?"
And everybody say, "He sure look funny."
That's that Montgomery Clift, honey!

I see a car smashed at night
Cut the applause and dim the light
Monty's face is broken on a wheel
Is he alive? Can he still feel?

And everybody say, "Is he all right?"
And everybody say, "shine the light”
Everybody say, "He sure look funny."
That's Montgomery Clift, honey!

Seen his right profile

And everybody say, "Is he all right?"
And everybody say, "What's he like?"
And everybody say, "He sure look funny."
That's...Montgomery Clift, honey!

Nembutal numbs it all
But I prefer alcohol!

And everybody say, "Is he all right?"
And everybody say, "What's he like?"
and everybody say, "He sure look funny."
That Montgomery Clift, honey!

He said go out and get me my old movie stills
Go out and get me another roll of pills
There I go again shaking, but I ain't got the chills
ARRRGHHHGORRA BUH BHUH DO ARRRRGGGGHHHHNNNN!!!!

And everybody say, "What's he like?"
And everybody say, "Is he all right?"
Everybody say, "He sure look funny."
Ah but that's Montgomery Clift, honey!

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It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. - John Wooden
My IMDb page

"James Dean, James Dean
I know just what you mean
James Dean, you said it all so clean
And I know my life would look alright
If I could see it on the silver screen

You were the lowdown rebel if there ever was
Even if you had no cause
James Dean, you said it all so clean
And I know my life would look all right
If I could see it on the silver screen

We'll talk about a low-down bad refrigerator,
You were just too cool for school
Sock hop, soda pop, basketball and auto shop,
The only thing that got you off was breakin' all the rules
James Dean, James Dean
So hungry and so lean
James Dean, you said it all so clean
And I know my life would look alright
If I could see it on the silver screen

Little James Dean, up on the screen
Wond'rin' who he might be
Along came a Spyder and picked up a rider
And took him down the road to eternity

James Dean, James Dean, you bought it sight unseen

You were too fast to live, too young to die, bye-bye
You were to fast to live, too young to die, bye-bye
Bye-bye, Bye-bye, Bye-bye, Bye, bye...."

Recorded by The Eagles
Lyrics by Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Jackson Browne and J.D. Souther

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"Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream it takes over as the number one hormone. It bosses the enzymes, directs the pineal gland, plays Iago to your psyche. As with heroin, the antidote to Film is more Film." - Frank Capra

In 1995, the band Deep Blue Something released the song Breakfast at Tiffany's which references the film with the wonderful Ms. Hepburn. The song depicts the impending break-up of the singer and his girlfriend who only have an affection for the aforementioned film in common. This is mildly ironic, given that the principals in the movie find love, and not vice-versa.

Breakfast at Tiffany's was actually inspired by Roman Holiday, according to Todd David Pipes, who penned the lyrics.


BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S
(T.D. Pipes)

You say that we've got nothing in common
No common ground to start from
And we're falling apart
You'll say the world has come between us
Our lives have come between us
But I know you just don't care

CHORUS:
And I said what about "Breakfast at Tiffany's?
She said, "I think I remember the film,
And as I recall, I think, we both kinda liked it."
And I said, "Well, that's the one thing we've got."

I see you - the only one who knew me
And now your eyes see through me
I guess I was wrong
So what now? It's plain to see we're over,
And I hate when things are over -
When so much is left undone

CHORUS:
And I said what about "Breakfast at Tiffany's?
She said, "I think I remember the film,
And as I recall, I think, we both kinda liked it."
And I said, "Well, that's the one thing we've got."

You say that we've got nothing in common
No common ground to start from
And we're falling apart
You'll say the world has come between us
Our lives have come between us
But I know you just don't care

Wow, that's more responses than I'd expected over the weekend. I should've come up with that last one, it's so obvious and I have seen Breakfast at Tiffany's only like 2 weeks ago Anyway, another addition by me from the DnB corner:

Not so much based on the movie as on the well-known theme of the movie. Mixes it into a nice and cheerfull Drum and Bass song, definately one of my favorites

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It's just a ride...

While a bit too easy, you'd have to have only spent a miniscule bit of time within auditory range of any adult contemporary radio transmission in the last generation in order to hear Reggie's penchant for one Norma Jeane Mortenson.

Don't know if you know Skinnyman, anyway he's a British rapper who did an album called Council Estate of Mind inspired by urban life in general and by the Alan Clarke film Made in Britain - the one with Tim Roth as the skinhead.

Pulp Fiction
Beaches
Almost Famous
Across the Universe
C-R-A-Z-Y

"One," Metallica's Grammy Award-winning cut off of their 1988 album, ...And Justice For All, is known to be conceptualized from the anti-war book Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo who also directed the 1971 film of the same name (starring Jason Robards). Given that, it may be safe to say the movie definitely inspired Hetfield and Ulrich to write the song since the music video heavily features sequences from the film. Whether any of the band members read the book is another question.

Debaser by The Pixies

Got me a movie
I want you to know
Slicing up eyeballs
I want you to know
Girlie so groovy
I want you to know
Don't know about you
But I am Un Chien Andalusia

I am Un Chien Andalusia (x3)

Wanna grow
Up to be
Be a debaser

Debaser (x5)

Got me a movie
Ha ha ha hoa
Slicing up eyeballs
Ha ha ha hoa
Girlie so groovie
Ha ha ha hoa
Don't know about you
But I am Un Chien Andalusia

I am Un Chien Andalusia (x3)

Debaser (x5)

A personal favourite of mine is Showbread's Dead by Dawn, which bases its lyrics on Sam Raimi's Evil Dead trilogy, specifically Evil Dead II.

Tonight's twilight will be the last seen by our eyes,
So if it seems so beautiful, kiss the beauty goodbye,
Oh my little cornea, please say that you are no more,
And ears please swear you did not hear this creaking in the cabin floor,
I'll forgive my eyes for lovely lies, so certainly within my will,
Please declare this piercing stare,
So false, at a clock that's standing still.

Such pretty skin, give it to us,
The sun won't wise my spirit dies,
All hope has withdrawn,
So here I lay because either way,
I know we'll all be dead by dawn,
Dead by dawn.

Arming shotgun shells this rotting smell lingers on words that were said,
Her body in pieces, my hand cut away,
the ever-enchanting book of the dead,
The sun won't rise, my spirit dies, All hope has withdrawn,
So here I lay because either way I know we'll all be dead by dawn.
A chainsaw can remove a limb or act as a replacement,
Smell the gas as hours pass, contrary to my statement,
The corpses wish to cover me with kisses,
So just maybe I'll cover this cabin with their blood,
Hail to the king baby.

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Iro's Top 100 Movies v3.0

i know that the music does play along with the movie!!! and its so spot on its scary.

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Is there someone inside you?
Sometimes.
Who is it?
I don't know.
Is it Captain Howdy?

Hackers inspired a whole slew of EDM tracks. I think there is a compilation called "Music inspired by the film Hackers" or something like that.

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Her hair is Harlowe gold
Her lips sweet surprise
Her hands are never cold
She's got Bette Davis eyes
She'll turn her music on you
You won't have to think twice
She's pure as New York snow
She got Bette Davis eyes

And she'll tease you
She'll unease you
All the better just to please you
She's precocious and she knows just
What it takes to make a pro blush
She got Greta Garbo stand off sighs
She's got Bette Davis eyes

She'll let you take her home
It whets her appetite
She'll lay you on her throne
She got Bette Davis eyes
She'll take a tumble on you
Roll you like you were dice
Until you come out blue
She's got Bette Davis eyes

She'll expose you, when she snows you
Off your feet with the crumbs she throws you
She's ferocious and she knows just
What it takes to make a pro blush
All the boys think she's a spy
She's got Bette Davis eyes

And she'll tease you
She'll unease you
All the better just to please ya
She's precocious, and she knows just
What it takes to make a pro blush
All the boys think she's a spy
She's got Bette Davis eyes

She'll tease you
She'll unease you
Just to please ya
She's got Bette Davis eyes
She'll expose you, when she snows you
She knows ya
She's got Bette Davis eyes

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1 THE FIRST IMAGE IS A SET OF RED VELVET CINEMA CURTAINS

Soft Drum-Roll.

2 THEY SPLIT OPTICALLY TO REVEAL THE DISTRIBUTION COMPANY LOGO.

Fanfare.

3 A SMALL WHITE SCREEN - ACADEMY SIZE - APPEARS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WIDE-SCREEN FORMAT

On the sides of the image are stationary sprocket holes of celluloid.
SCIENCE FICTION DOUBLE FEATURE * Musical Introduction.
Film head runs down numbers: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, START.
Very scratched. During the SONG we see snatches of the films mentioned in SONG. They look old and scratched and they are INTERCUT with flashes of white screen, burnt celluloid, etc.


SONG: "SCIENCE FICTION DOUBLE FEATURE"

4 THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL - THE END SEQUENCE OF THE ROBOT CARRYING THE HERO

VOICE OVER

WIPE TO

5 FLASH GORDON - BUSTER CRABBE IN ACTION

VOICE OVER (Cont)

WIPE TO

6 THE INVISIBLE MAN - CLAUDE RAINS IN BANDAGES AND DARK GLASSES

VOICE OVER (Cont)

WIPE TO

7 KING KONG - EMPIRE STATE BUILDING SEQUENCE WITH FAY WRAY

VOICE OVER (Cont)

WIPE TO

8 IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE - GEODESIC GLOBE ECLIPSING THE EARTH

VOICE OVER (Cont)

WIPE TO

9 TITLE SEQUENCE - CAST AND WRITING CREDITS

CHORUS

WIPE TO

10 TARANTULA - THE MUTATION SEQUENCE

VOICE OVER

WIPE TO

11 THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS - FIGHT IN THE LIGHTHOUSE

VOICE OVER (Cont)

WIPE TO

12 THE NIGHT OF THE DEMON - SEQUENCE OF "RUNIC WRITING", FLYING INTO THE FIRE

VOICE OVER (Cont)

WIPE TO

13 WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE - ROCKET INVASION SEQUENCE

VOICE OVER (Cont)

WIPE TO

14 TITLE CONTINUED - TECHNICAL AND PRODUCTION CREDITS

CHORUS

DISSOLVE TO

15 EXT. A STILL FRAME OF A DENTON CATHOLIC CHURCH DAY

CHORUS (Cont)



Rest of Script can be found here http://www.godamongdirectors.com/scripts/rhps.shtml

Siouxsie and the Banshees

Kiss Them For Me

It glittered and it gleamed
For the arriving beauty queen
A ring and a car
Now you’re the prettiest by far
No party she’d not attend
No invitation she wouldn’t send
Transfixed by the inner sound
Of your promise to be found
"nothing or no-one will ever
Make me let you down"
Kiss them for me -- I may be delayed
Kiss them for me -- if I am delayed
It’s divoon, oh it’s serene
In the fountains pink champagne
Someone carving their devotion
In the heart shaped pool of fame
"nothing or no-one will ever
Make me let you down
"Kiss them for me -- I may be delayed
Kiss them for me -- I may find myself delayed
On the road to new orleans
A spray of stars hit the screen
As the 10th impact shimmered
The forbidden candles beamedKiss them for me -- I may be delayed
Kiss them for me -- I may find myself delayed
Kiss them for me -- kiss them for me
Kiss them for me -- I may find myself delayed
Kiss Them For Me

One might say that Chris Gaines' album-- or is it Garth Brooks' album-- (which, in 1999, spawned Chrisgarth Brooksgaines' sole Top 40 pop hit, Lost In You), could be the only album inspired by a movie that never was.

In an exploration of additional artistic outlets, Brooks teamed up with Paramount Studios in 1994 to make a movie based on a fictitious character, Chris Gaines. It was to be called The Lamb, but the project was slaughtered roughly coinciding with the 1999 release of Chris Gaines' musical project and before it could be withdrawn from the public. And the resultant mass confusion has become an odoriferous (if not grossly misunderstood) oddity on an otherwise stellar country music career.

From what I've heard/read, Michael Jackson's song "Beat It" was based on something from West Side Story (i. e the scene when the Jets roust out 3 Sharks who're playing cards in Jets territory, during the Prologue of West Side Story. Michael Jackon, from what I understand, is also a big fan of the great movie-musical classic.

Oh, I've got to play some country music for you youngsters! Here's a song about a couple of my favorite movie stars by by George Jones:

Heckle and Jeckle

Well, you and me baby know what love's all about
It sure wasn't easy oh, but we figured it out
No matter what happens we'll see it through
Baby, don't you see there ain't no me without you

We're like Heckle and Jeckle, Jeckle and Hyde
Frankie and Jonny oh, Bonnie and Clyde
Just like Laurel and Hardy, Bartles and James
One without the other baby, just ain't the same

We've held it together and together we'll stand
You and me against the world hand in hand
A team of wild horses couldn't pull us apart
Forever joined together heart to heart

Just like Heckle and Jeckle, Jeckle and Hyde
Frankie and Jonny oh, Bonnie and Clyde
Just like Laurel and Hardy, Bartles and James
One without the other baby, just ain't the same

Just like birds of a feather we fit like a glove
When we snuggle together like two bugs in a rug

We're like Heckle and Jeckle, Jeckle and Hyde
Frankie and Jonny, Willie and Waylon, Bonnie and Clyde
Just like Laurel and Hardy, Bartles and James
One without the other baby, just ain't the same

We're like Heckle and Jeckle, Jeckle and Hyde
Frankie and Jonny, Willie and Dolly, Bonnie and Clyde
Just like Laurel and Hardy, Bartles and James
One without the other baby, just ain't the same

Here's another George Jones classic:

The King is Gone (And so are You)

Last night I broke the seal on a Jim Beam decanter
That looks like Elvis
I soaked the label off a Flintstone Jelly Bean jar
I cleared us off a place on that
One little table that you left us
And pulled me up a big ole piece of floor.

I pulled the head off Elvis
Filled Fred up to his pelvis
Yabba Dabba Doo, the King is gone
And so are you.

'Round about ten we all got to talking
'Bout Graceland, Bedrock and such
The conversation finally turned to women
But they said they didn't get around too much
Elvis said, "Find 'em young."
And Fred said, "Old Fashioned girls are fun."
Yabba Dabba Doo, the King is gone
And so are you.

Later on it finally hit me
That you wouldn't be 'a comin' home no more
'Cause this time I know you won't forgive me
Like all of them other times before
Then I broke Elvis's nose
Pouring the last drop from his toes
Yabba Dabba Doo, the King is gone
And so are you.
Yabba Dabba Doo, the King is gone
And so are you.

And who could forget this hit by Johnny Horton?

Sink the Bismark

In May of nineteen forty-one the war had just begun
The Germans had the biggest ship that had the biggest guns
The Bismark was the fastest ship that ever sailed the seas
On her deck were guns as big as steers and shells as big as trees

Out of the cold and foggy night came the British ship the Hood
And evry British seaman, he knew and understood
They had to sink the Bismark, the terror of the sea
Stop those guns as big as steers and those shells as big as trees

We'll find that German battleship thats makin' such a fuss
We gotta sink the Bismark 'cause the world depends on us
Hit the decks a-runnin' boys and spin those guns around
When we find the Bismark we gotta cut her down

The Hood found the Bismark and on that fatal day
The Bismark started firin' fifteen miles away
We gotta sink the Bismark was the battle sound
But when the smoke had cleared away
The mighty Hood went down

For six long days and weary nights they tried to find her trail
Churchill told the people "Put ev'ry ship a-sail"
'Cause somewhere on that ocean I know she's gotta be
We gotta sink the Bismark to the bottom of the sea

We'll find that German battleship thats makin' such a fuss
We gotta sink the Bismark 'cause the world depends on us
Hit the decks a-runnin' boys and spin those guns around
When we find the Bismark we gotta cut her down

The fog was gone on the seventh day and they saw the mornin' sun
Ten hours away from homeland the Bismark made its' run
The admiral of the British fleet said "Turn those bows around"
We found that German battleship and we're gonna cut her down

The British guns were aimed and the shells were comin' fast
The first shell hit the Bismark, they knew she couldn't last
That mighty German battleship is just a memory
"Sink the Bismark" was the battle cry that shook the seven seas

We found that German battleship was makin' such a fuss
We had to sink the Bismark 'cause the world depends on us
We hit the decks a-runnin' and we spun those guns around
Yeah, we found the mighty Bismark and then we cut her down