Best Use of Music in a Movie/Scene

I love the POTC score. It's so grand, but distinctive. I get chills whenever I hear it. :sigh:

Also, I've said this elsewhere, but the beginning of At World's End with the "hoist the colors" song was haunting and amazing!



Ohhh that one is so good. :nod:

Speaking of love scenes, the one in Benny & Joon with "Have a little faith in me" is so beautiful. :sigh: I love that scene so much.
 
The music from the Pirates of the Caribbean movies especially At the World's End is very impressive. The music in every scene is so perfect and you can feel the emotion of the characters and the setting.:clap:


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Jack Sparrow: Shoot him and cut out his tongue, then shoot his tongue! And trim that scraggly beard!
 
I was just thinking of that moment when I read the title of this thread. That had to me one movie moment that the music just gave me shiver-me-timbers! I loved it...and how they didn't say anything, just gazed at each other, so magical!

Another for me is in ROA, the bathtub scene, that was just powerful! And seeing that was the girl who had been sending him the love letters.....

ETA: Brit, you said the same thing. :lol:
 
One of the most intense movie scenes for me had to be the suicide scene in "The Rules of Attraction". And the song that plays just makes it even more intense. When the girls starts the water in the bathtub and "Without You" by Harry Nilsson starts to play. At first you don't see who it is, but the person starts lining up their rings on the edge of the bathtub, ending with a razor, while the song goes,

"No, I can't forget this evening
Or your face as you were leaving
But I guess that's just the way the story goes
You always smile but in your eyes your sorrow shows
Yes, it shows
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The song continues as the girl gets into the bathtub. You see her cut herself and the pain in her face as the song starts getting more, i guess upbeat, lol, almost like screaming as if the song is trying to convey the pain that the girl is going through,

"I can't live if living is without you
I can't live, I can't give any more
Can't live if living is without you
I can't give, I can't give any more"

The song seemingly drones on as everything goes in slow motion. Then we get a over the head shot of her lying in the tub, then an up close of the water dripping from the facet as the song ends.

I now honestly cannot listen to that song without playing the scene on loop in my head. :lol:
 
It's one of my favorite all time couples: images & music. The way they both compliment and go with each other can be endlessly beautiful, violent, tragic, or just plain romantic.

This is a thread to discuss specific scenes or just the general concept of music and movies wether it be source music or score. :)

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Subjects like this could instantly favor musicals like Rent and Chicago where film and music are the soul of the concept. But a more traditional movie like 13 going on 30 has a fantastic montage where music takes over the piece and all you need to know you can learn by closing your eyes and listening to the song playing.

Then there's Walk the Line going all out making music as important to the audience as it was for the subject matter (Johnny Cash). Music was his life, so the movie lives and dies with every song. And every one of them works like a gem. :D James Mangold truly captured the concert feel and the roughness of some lyrics without ever being graphic. He has a gentle touch.

Romeo & Juliet is brilliant in the scene when the two lovers gaze at each through water with the background being carried by Des'ree's chilling performance of her ballad "I'm Kissing You". Alexander has a wonderful score that never fails to make the hair on my arms stand up.
 
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