Best movie music moment?

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Sean Williams

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What's your favourite film scene set to music? I'm not talking about musicals (necessarily) or best soundtrack, but a single scene or sequence played out against a backdrop of music. Two of my favourites are:
- from Moulin Rouge, the scene where Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor are on top of the elephant, duetting about the meaning of love to a wide variety of pop and rock songs
- from Shaun Of The Dead, the fantastic scene where they're battering the pub owner to the strains of Don't Stop Me Now by Queen. Several of them are whacking him with pool cues in time to the music and the other guy is doing the 'lighting' for the zombies outside (whilst actually trying to turn all the lights off).

Any others?
 
Good pick.
I like the bit where the score kicks in in Gladiator just as they are going into the first battle in the forest.
Also, 'Save Me' by Aimee Mann at the end of Magnolia, although I didn't like the film itself.
 
Thought of another one: Carter Burwell's score for Millers Crossing, especially the song at the beginning. Actually, there's so many of these, I'll probably be back...

The bit in Virgin Suicides where the boys and the girls are playing music to each other over the phone is excellent as well..
 
The 'The Thomas Crown Affair', and the famous McQueen/Dunaway "chess seduction" scene , with the quizzical jazz tones is quite seductively playful, and works well I think.
 
;3949753']That's a great scene. If you like 'Clubbed to Death' then I highly recommend the Hybrid remix - amazing. (Rob Dougan features twice more in Reloaded, with 'Furious Angels' and 'Chateau'.)

There's a lot of great music throughout The Animatrix, but in particular I'd like to highlight the 'Kid's Story' vignette. Peace Orchestra's 'Who Am I?' fits so well, and there are some beautiful strings in there too.

Away from The Matrix, The Shawshank Redemption should be commended for its breathtaking melancholic soundtrack.
 
For me, it has to be the scene between Christopher Walken & Dennis Hopper in 'True Romance'

Walken (an Italian organised crime boss) is interrogating Hopper (Ageing policeman) as to the whereabouts of Hopper's son (Christian Slater). After a short time of 'show and tell' - "You show me nothin' but you tell me everything" states Walken, Hopper realises he is going to lose his own life. At this point, the backdrop of music starts to play and Hopper decides to tell Walken why Italians have brown eyes and an olive complexion.

As Hopper tells the story, the music becomes more prominent until it reaches the point where his story finishes and the scene enRAB.

This is one of my favourite scenes from any film.
 
It's gotta be Back to the Future.

Marty McFly & The Starlighters playing 'Earth Angel' followed by a rousing rendition of 'Johnny B. Goode'.
 
Lovely music for a groundbreaking love scene in one of my favourite films of its genre. :)

Of specifically written film music, my favourite music is probably Ennio Morricone's score for "Once Upon A time In America". I also love the Ralph Vaughn Williams soundtrack to Scott of the Antarctic. He later adapted it into his Symphonie Antarctica.

May I also nominate the soundtrack for "Band of Brothers" by Michael Kamen? Not a film, but an excellent TV series with hauntingly beautiful music..

If I include existing music there are far too many to mention. :)
 
The music for the original Get Carter, especially when he's on the train going north.

The use of music in 2001 - A Space Odyssey. Wasn't the Strauss originally used as a guide track while the real music was being commissioned, and Kubrick decided to keep it because it worked so well? And Ligeti sued Kubrick for using his music without permission, but again it fitted the mood of the images perfectly.
 
Got to agree there, its a fantastic, classic scene. The music is "Lakme" by Delibes, and its also the music playing during the sex scene between Catherine Deneuve and Susan Sarandon in "The Hunger". Also a fantastic scene, but for different reasons :D

One of my favorourite pieces of movie music is in "Heat". Al Pacino is following Robert De Niro in a helicopter, which then lanRAB and he gets into a car. As he tails De Niro on the freeway there's a brilliantly cool piece of rock music. It's a version of Joy Division's "New Dawn Fades" by Moby.

The final scene in "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" where Clint, Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef face each other in the cemetary has a cracking Ennio Morricone soundtrack.

Donnie Darko's soundtrack is great -The scene where he walks through the school while "Head Over Heels" by Tears for Fears plays is just inspired.

Goodfellas: De Niro stanRAB at a bar staring at someone he's going to kill while "Sunshine of Your Love" by Cream blasts
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