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Forum: General Movie Discussion 01-03-22
Replies: 32
Perfect Song Chosen for a Movie Scene
Posted By Captain Steel
"Just a Gigilo" by Louis Prima for Harley Quinn...

"Just a Gigilo" by Louis Prima for Harley Quinn scene in The Suicide Squad (2021).

The fact that I'm a huge Louis Prima fan helps this song & scene make it to this thread.

Now, it's another...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 09-09-21
Replies: 32
Perfect Song Chosen for a Movie Scene
Posted By Captain Steel
Re: Perfect Song Chosen for a Movie Scene

A classic... thanks to Bob Seger!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2UVsyVLLcE
Forum: General Movie Discussion 09-09-21
Replies: 32
Perfect Song Chosen for a Movie Scene
Posted By Captain Steel
I appreciate this one as a bad example. The...

I appreciate this one as a bad example. The Beach Boys "California Girls" is a great tune and could work for an action sequence, but I somehow doubt Bond was skiing in California (although I don't...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 09-09-21
Replies: 32
Perfect Song Chosen for a Movie Scene
Posted By Captain Steel
Is this a pre-existing piece of music or was it...

Is this a pre-existing piece of music or was it composed for the movie?
Forum: General Movie Discussion 09-04-21
Replies: 32
Perfect Song Chosen for a Movie Scene
Posted By Captain Steel
Re: Perfect Song Chosen for a Movie Scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkGKc_1CtdM
Forum: General Movie Discussion 09-03-21
Replies: 32
Perfect Song Chosen for a Movie Scene
Posted By Captain Steel
Somehow the song "The 10 Commandments of Love" by...

Somehow the song "The 10 Commandments of Love" by the Moonglows works in this scene from A Bronx Tale (1993), even though it seems the antithesis to what's happening (but in movies, scenes of...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 09-03-21
Replies: 32
Perfect Song Chosen for a Movie Scene
Posted By Captain Steel
Re: Perfect Song Chosen for a Movie Scene

"Thus Spoke Zarathustra" ("Sunrise" Introduction) by Richard Strauss in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).

This pre-existing piece of classical music has become so associated with the film it was used...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 09-02-21
Replies: 32
Perfect Song Chosen for a Movie Scene
Posted By Captain Steel
Re: Perfect Song Chosen for a Movie Scene

"In Dreams" by Roy Orbison in Blue Velvet (1986).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Nbo7qnGd0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkZZLPsEcmY
Forum: General Movie Discussion 09-02-21
Replies: 32
Perfect Song Chosen for a Movie Scene
Posted By Captain Steel
Re: Perfect Song Chosen for a Movie Scene

To start off... I think "Mr. Blue" by the Fleetwoods was a great song just for setting the mood for this scene from National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) where Clark falls asleep at the wheel.
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Forum: General Movie Discussion 09-02-21
Replies: 32
Perfect Song Chosen for a Movie Scene
Posted By Captain Steel
Perfect Song Chosen for a Movie Scene

Just kind of a free association thread about "perfect" songs (in your opinion) chosen for a movie scene.

I was going to limit it to "best" songs, but naming the "worst" could be interesting too...