At the risk of amplifying an aesthetic debate by combining music with film, here's this week's RMQ:
What is your favorite song for the end credits of a movie?
Lots of great options here. I've learned my lesson from the first RMQ and not suck the oxygen out of the discussion by only offering one opinion here (though there would be lots to choose from):
I love, love , love the use of "Shape of My Heart" by Sting at the end of Leon: The Professional. Great song, and I love the closing shot of Natalie Portman's Mathilda as she puts Leon's plant in the ground. [Highlight to read spoiler]
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"3:10 To Yuma" at the end of 3:10 to Yuma is my favorite song at the end of a film. This song captures the beauty and tragedy and context of the movie.
Shape of My Heart in Leon is amazing. You're right on that one.
"Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman" at the end of Don Juan De Marco. I wouldn't say it's my favorite, but it's a good one.
That Dixie Chicks song at the end of Fight Club was pretty great.
Here's a better category:
BEST SONG NOT IN A MOVIE:
"Highway Patrolman," by Bruce Springsteen, was CONSPICUOUSLY absent from Sean Penn's directorial debut, The Indian Runner. The movie was an elaboration on the story in the song, but the song never made an appearance in the film.
I don't know how I could have forgotten...
"Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)" at the end of The Big Kahuna.
"Iron Man," from Iron Man.
No, I'm just kidding. Um..."Angel Band" from O Brother, Where Art Thou?, "Miss Misery" from Good Will Hunting, and who could forget Kenny Loggins' "Meet Me Half Way" from Over the Top ;).
Oh, and these probably don't count, since they are scores, but "Ecstasy of Gold" from the (almost) end of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, and the greatest music ever from the end of True Romance (oh, it's amazing).
Oh, and how could I fail to mention "Coconut" at the end of Reservoir Dogs.
K-Billy's Super Sounds of the 70's continues...
This isn't at the end, but it's a pretty great scene in Leon too when Gary Oldman gets high, puts on the headphones, and just starts blasting people. Wait, is great the word I'm looking for?
I'll tell you what, that Quentin Tarantino can pick a soundtrack. I'm thinking of "Bang Bang" at the end of "Kill Bill: Vol. 1." Or the end of Rushmore, when they dance: "I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger."
p.s. can i join this blog group?
'Twould be an honor, good sir.
Also, I was thinking of "We'll Meet Again," from the end of Dr. Strangelove, this lilting kind of waltz playing as atomic bombs are detonated all over the surface of the planet. Also unforgettable is another Kubrick: "Singin' in the Rain" at the end of A Clockwork Orange. So creepy.
Couple other good options from Sting: "Valparaiso" at the end of White Squall, and the remake of "The Windmills of My Mind" at the end of the remake of The Thomas Crown Affair.
A bit nerdish, but I also do love Annie Lennox "Into the West" at the end of ROTK.
For you techno lovers, Moby's "God Moving Over The Face Of The Waters"
at the end of Heat. What's the song at the end of the Bourne movies?
It's called "Extreme Ways." I almost said that myself, actually. It's at the end of all three movies, and each time it works really well.
Yes, it does have an international espionage-ish feel to it.
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