I love the karaoke scene you wrote in your book, Very Sincerely Yours. It was your description of the songs and the bar vibe that made me YouTube the song Wuthering Heights. LOL I'd never heard it before, but I love it so much now!
Ok, one of mine is in Moonstruck when Johnny is alone in his apartment after his night with Loretta at the opera and he is listening to La Boheme. He turns up the record which is playing "O soave fanciulla" and then it cuts to Cher walking home and she kicks the can down the street. Ugh. So good.
Also if we are going to go with Wes Anderson, in Fantastic Mr. Fox when the family is just kind of hanging out and Mrs. Fox is painting, quietly the song playing underneath the scene is Love by Nancy Adams from Disney's Robin Hood and it KILLS ME.
I've been spending FAR too long today thinking of mine, but here are a few. I always feel like I'm going to forget something that would make me sound cooler. ANYWAY, I very much love Marla Hooch singing It Had To Be You to Nelson in A League of Their Own. It's funny and sweet, and Nelson is exactly the guy who deserves Marla. I also love basically every needle drop in Beetlejuice. It was probably the first time I ever thought about how songs, not the score but songs, could amplify a film. And finally, Peter Bretter singing the Dracula Musical at the bar in Hawaii. A funny guy who can sing? Dream come true.
LOVE THIS. The Rushmore sequence is one of my very favorites too (also, "O R THEY?"). And not a movie, but the needle drops in Yellowjackets make the show!
I love the karaoke scene you wrote in your book, Very Sincerely Yours. It was your description of the songs and the bar vibe that made me YouTube the song Wuthering Heights. LOL I'd never heard it before, but I love it so much now!
Ok, one of mine is in Moonstruck when Johnny is alone in his apartment after his night with Loretta at the opera and he is listening to La Boheme. He turns up the record which is playing "O soave fanciulla" and then it cuts to Cher walking home and she kicks the can down the street. Ugh. So good.
Also if we are going to go with Wes Anderson, in Fantastic Mr. Fox when the family is just kind of hanging out and Mrs. Fox is painting, quietly the song playing underneath the scene is Love by Nancy Adams from Disney's Robin Hood and it KILLS ME.
Moonstruck! My heart!!
Ugh. I meant Ronny, not Johnny. I love Moonstruck so much. I’ve watched it a bajillion times.
I've been spending FAR too long today thinking of mine, but here are a few. I always feel like I'm going to forget something that would make me sound cooler. ANYWAY, I very much love Marla Hooch singing It Had To Be You to Nelson in A League of Their Own. It's funny and sweet, and Nelson is exactly the guy who deserves Marla. I also love basically every needle drop in Beetlejuice. It was probably the first time I ever thought about how songs, not the score but songs, could amplify a film. And finally, Peter Bretter singing the Dracula Musical at the bar in Hawaii. A funny guy who can sing? Dream come true.
Omg, I forgot all about that Forgetting Sarah Marshall song!!
There was no one as beautiful as Cynthia Rhodes including the movie Runaway.
LOVE THIS. The Rushmore sequence is one of my very favorites too (also, "O R THEY?"). And not a movie, but the needle drops in Yellowjackets make the show!
Yes, so much good music in that show! I had to stop myself from including TV otherwise this post would've been a million words long!