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[NumberTwo]

What film scenes do you think had some of the best music that perfectly captured the mood of what was going on, and in most cases evoked emotions that you otherwise would not have felt if it had been a different song, or nothing at all.


Song: John Powell - Dark Phoenix's Tragedy
Scene: Dark Phoenix vs. Professor X
Movie: X-Men: TLS

The movie in it's entirety is a different argument all together, but this scene was brilliantly pieced together, and the takes off right as the professor is being lifted from his chair like a ragdoll. The deep percussions make something as simple as Jean standing up from a chair seem frightening.

For those who haven't seen it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az8euVBW4L8

Song: John Williams - Light of the Force
Scene: Vader's funeral pyre
Move: ROTJ

Luke standing infront of the fire pit watching Vader's armor burn. The force theme kicks in as we get a close up of his face, all of it signaling..."it's finally over".


Song: John Murphy - In the house - In a Heartbeat
Scene: Jim breaks back into the mansion to save Selena, and Hannah.
Move: 28 Days Later

The music makes Jim's transformation from a helpless victim to a coldblooded killer even more unsettling. Not much to say there.

 

[sonatinas]

Koyaanisqatsi. Still holds up to this day and I would pay to see it in IMAX.

 

[buckfutter]

Most of Hiroshima Mon Amour.

 

[Dice]

Lost in Translation

Amélie

Kill Bill 1 & 2

The end of Donny Darko with Gary Jules cover of "Mad World"

As musical as I am, I don't usually pay attention to music in movies.

 

[Stinkles]

Wild at Heart

Betty Blue

Dune

Highlander

 

[valkillmore]

Back tothe Future 1, at the end when marty is racing to the clock tower to catch the bolt of lighting, generating the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity he needs to travel back in time.

 

[QVT]

All of Fast Times at Ridgemont High but in particular, Somebodys Baby. Kicking in when Stacy climbed out the window.

 

[Manabanana]

Life Aquatic!

The gun fight scene with Search and Destroy playing, the lightning strike rescue op and the leopard shark scene with Sigur Ros are all both radical and awesome.

 

[JdFoX187]

The final gun battle of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Ectasy of Gold is such a wonderful score.

When Harmonica is played toward the end of Once Upon a Time in the West when Henry Fonda's character finally realizes who Charles Bronson's character is.

I'm a big Ennio Morricone fan.

 

[BocoDragon]

Samurai Champloo

Fight Club

Vanilla Sky

Dawn of the Dead remake (there is a time and place for Disturbed :lol )

A Fistfull of Dollars / For a Few Dollars More / The Good the Bad and the Ugly

Kill Bill (anything from QT really, but this was the musical masterpiece)

The Matrix Trilogy and The Animatrix

Resident Evil movie (yeah I'm serious! I loved Marilyn Manson's rock-techno score!)

EDIT: Also any Kyle Cooper / Imaginary Forces credits montage! Seven, Metal Gear Solid, etc.

 

[Dice]

Life Aquatic!

The gun fight scene with Search and Destroy playing, the lightning strike rescue op and the leopard shark scene with Sigur Ros are all both radical and awesome.

Forgot about that one, the music is unique and fits the movie perfectly.

 

[temp]

Obviously ET


http://youtube.com/watch?v=SVd_7NcydcY

 

[Umino]

Paging Wes Anderson/Mark Motherbaugh. Will Wes Anderson and Mark Mothersbaugh please come to this thread.

 

[Triumph]

Life Aquatic!

The gun fight scene with Search and Destroy playing, the lightning strike rescue op and the leopard shark scene with Sigur Ros are all both radical and awesome.

Yes.

Also, pretty much every music to scene pairing in Pulp Fiction was absolute perfection. You can throw in all of Reservoir Dogs into that. After that, Tarantino became a little off with his selections but still has the best knack of pairing music to images of any director IMO.

Edit: The final scene of Squid and the Whale, with "Street Hassle" playing is also pretty much damn perfect.

 

[Stinkles]

Sometimes movies and music come together for true and ultimate justice. NOW IS THAT TIME:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV1bRfLHA3A

 

[XMonkey]

Anything in 2001 pretty much.

 

[Tarazet]

Star Wars, of course... especially when you consider the B-movie par for the course in the '70s. It's hard to appreciate today just how much better it was than any other contemporary sci-fi movie, and the score played a huge part in making it convincing.

 

[bjork]

boogie nights

also, spiceworld

 

[temp]

Oh yeah, the "Come Fly with Me" sequence in Catch Me If You Can is awesome too. Don't think it's on YouTube.

 

[Kevtones]

AMERICA, F*CK YEAH

 

[Jonm1010]

Koyaanisqatsi. Still holds up to this day and I would pay to see it in IMAX.

This man won from the start.

 

[Kevtones]

A Clockwork Orange - high-speed sex, Singin' in the Rain, record store
Halloween - long follow dolly shots with the lonesome piano theme

 

[Dan]

Song: John Murphy - In the house - In a Heartbeat
Scene: Jim breaks back into the mansion to save Selena, and Hannah.
Move: 28 Days Later

The music makes Jim's transformation from a helpless victim to a coldblooded killer even more unsettling. Not much to say there.

That's a favorite of mine. It's the reason I bought the score.

Obvious recent example:

Movie: The Fountain
Scene: The climax of each timeline / arrival at Xibalba
Song: Clint Mansell - "Death is the Road to Awe"

 

[Len Dontree]

Miller's Crossing -- the "Danny Boy" scene:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo-X3fqklCw

 

[Ollie Pooch]

i always loved the scene from 'Spirited Away' with Chihiro and Lin going up in the elevator with 'Procession of the Spirits' playing.

 

[_Alkaline_]

When Ah-nuld is lowered into the magma at the end of Terminator 2.

 

[Moz La Punk]

The last scene of Fight Club, the Pixies - Where is my Mind?

 

[tnw]

Phillip Glass's soundtrack to The Hours and also his soundtrack to Mishima

Also Chopins 'raindrop' and Kurosawa's Van Gough dream. (starts playing at around 1:50)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtcG0-vRzuA

 

[disaster_area]

The docking scene from "2001", while the blue danube plays!

 

[Karma Kramer]

The docking scene from "2001", while the blue danube plays!

bingo

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

Magnolia.

Jon Brion, Aimee Mann, Paul Thomas Anderson.

The end.

 

[Dabookerman]

The lighting of the beacons - Return of the King

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuyGN1Rdqo0

 

[Great Rumbler]

Blade Runner
2001: A Space Odyssey
Chronos and Koyaanisqatsi
Ghost in the Shell 1/2
The Fountain

 

[bud]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=eUwG0FuY1Lk

Also,
-once upon a time in the west
-fight club
-crash (at the end)
-QT movies. example: stuck in the middle with you

 

[woxel1]

 

[Skiptastic]

Phillip Glass's soundtrack to Mishima

The last scene of Fight Club, the Pixies - Where is my Mind?

Win.

Addition:

Goodfellas - Layla
Silence of the Lambs - Goodbye Horses
Psycho - Shower scene

 

[blame space]

Dazed and Confused - Sweet Emotion

 

[Meier]

First title that comes to mind for me is Amelie. Flawless film in general, but some segments perfectly illustrate the blending of music and visuals.

 

[Fallout-NL]

This one, definitely.

The last scene of Fight Club, the Pixies - Where is my Mind?

And that one.

Resident Evil movie (yeah I'm serious! I loved Marilyn Manson's rock-techno score!)

Yeah, that was quite alright as well actually.

 

[guise]

Samurai Champloo

Yes!

Just listening to the soundtrack gives me flashbacks to specific parts in the scenes, even though its been ages since i've seen it and forgotten half of the story

 

[Prince]

Requiem for a dream
Yojimbo
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

 

[mr_nexus]

The Bourne Supremacy: Car chase scene in the tunnel.

 

[Moz La Punk]

Glad to see some Pixies / Fight Club love. All excellent things that make life better.

 

[Gav]

When Ah-nuld is lowered into the magma at the end of Terminator 2.

http://www.absoluteanime.com/interstella_5555/index.jpg

I came in here to post the ending of T2, and the Interstella 5555 sexiness. Glad others feel the same.

 

[Myke Greywolf]

Movie: Out of Africa
Scene: Denys and Karen's flight over the savannah.

 

[Dr. Strangelove]

Richard Einhorn's "Voices of Light" is a perfect complement to The Passion of Joan of Arc. And it should be, since it was inspired by the film.

 

[El_Victor]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=WO4tIrjBDkk < when Tony Montana pretended to be a coach the music he played in the background was awesome.

 

[Solo]

The final gun battle of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Ectasy of Gold is such a wonderful score.

Right choice, wrong song. The Ecstasy of Gold is played when Tuco runs through the graveyard. The Trio is the brilliant piece of music that plays over the duel. My favorite scene in my favorite movie. 100 times out of 100, Id answer this thread topic with this answer.

As for a second choice, Also Sprach Zarathustra accompanying the birth of the Starchild in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

 

[BigGreenMat]

This one is simple.

Conan the Barbarian!! Nearly the entire movie, but most specifically.

Battle of the Mounds

Wheel of Pain

Recovery

 

[Tim-E]

I love you.