# Bad-ass walkin' music in movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 10, 2005, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-ass-walkin-music-in-movies/311825 "2005-07-10T05:40:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-ass-walkin-music-in-movies/311825/21 "2005-07-10T17:08:02Z")
I liked how they used The Who’s “The Seeker” for Terence Stamp’s walk in **The Limey** ---
**Author:** ![boofuu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f4b2a3/32.png) [@boofuu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boofuu)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-ass-walkin-music-in-movies/311825/22 "2005-07-11T00:27:43Z")
My brother designed a jacket that has hidden speakers that play the theme from _Shaft_ and “Stayin’ Alive.” Hot music. How 'bout the scene from _Kill Bill_ with O-ren ishii and her crew are walking in the hallway at the club? “Battle without honor or humanity” by Tomoyasu Hotei; I think it is track 9 on the soundtrack (vol.1) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-ass-walkin-music-in-movies/311825/23 "2005-07-11T00:35:50Z")
> [@Antonius Block](#): > > During the closing credits of [The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086856/) (1984), the movie’s heroes are walking in formation around a dry LA aqueduct (the LA River?) to a rather infectious tune, with various closeups on walking feet and nifty moves. Yep. That’s the LA River. The exact spot is about 200 yards from the Gene Autrey Museum. You can see it from the freeway. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-ass-walkin-music-in-movies/311825/24 "2005-07-11T00:56:08Z")
Pick Up the Pieces - The Average White Band from Swingers (the scene when they are all parking their cars and walking into the club in slow motion) ---
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-ass-walkin-music-in-movies/311825/25 "2005-07-11T01:41:18Z")
Tombstone has a great walking scene when Wyatt, Virgil, Morgan, and Doc march off four abreast to the OK Corral. Can’t plasce the music, though. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-ass-walkin-music-in-movies/311825/26 "2005-07-11T03:35:56Z")
1. Darth Vader’s Imperial March Theme. 2. Sergio Leone’s whistling theme for the “man with no name”. 3. Bond. James Bond. The end-of-the-gun-barrel walking intro, pivot, and shoot. 😃😛 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Bongo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a9adbd/32.png) [@Winston\_Bongo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Bongo)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-ass-walkin-music-in-movies/311825/27 "2005-07-11T14:44:20Z")
I’ve never been a big fan of **Pulp Fiction** , but I thought the final scene with Sam Jackson and John Travolta coolly walking out of the diner to the tune of The Lively Ones’ “Surf Rider” made for a \*perfect \* ending. The song was recorded by several bands, including the Ventures, but any version inevitably reminds me of that scene. Incidentally, that makes _two_ Travolta nominations so far. Clearly he belongs in the Pantheon of Bas-Ass Movie Walkers. ---
**Author:** ![Cynical\_Optimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Cynical\_Optimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cynical_Optimist)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-ass-walkin-music-in-movies/311825/28 "2005-07-11T15:18:51Z")
No love for the Peter Gunn Theme?!? I know that’s been used before, but where? I mean, besides the original show. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-ass-walkin-music-in-movies/311825/29 "2005-07-11T15:25:34Z")
The tribal drum & flute song playing at the beginning of _Gangs of New York_ when they’re walking through the church to go out to the street is stirring. One of my favorite movie scenes. There’s also a nice walking scene in _Goodfellas_ when Ray Liotta is walking through the back of the restaurant to a front row table. Both Scorsese. ---
**Author:** ![Ex\_Machina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Ex\_Machina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ex_Machina)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-ass-walkin-music-in-movies/311825/30 "2005-07-11T15:35:03Z")
The opening sequence of **Desperado** , where Steve Buscemi is telling the story to Cheech Marin, at the point where he says “And in walked _the biggest Mexican_…” The walking is brief but the music is bad… whang-WHANG! ---
**Author:** ![Jeffro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7993a0/32.png) [@Jeffro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeffro)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-ass-walkin-music-in-movies/311825/31 "2005-07-11T15:48:48Z")
> [@Ex Machina](#): > > There was a movie about a guy(young monk?) named Juvenal who got stigmata. I think Tom Arnold was in the movie. I seem to remember a good ground level shoe-shot walking scene in it. > > What was that movie? The movie is Touch. The wierd thing is I’m reading the book its based on right now. ---
**Author:** ![Torgo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@Torgo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Torgo)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-ass-walkin-music-in-movies/311825/32 "2005-07-11T23:42:18Z")
**Colonel Bogey March** from \*Bridge on the River Kwai \* and \*\*Mickey Mouse March \*\* from _Full Metal Jacket._ ---
**Author:** ![easy\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@easy\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/easy_e)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-ass-walkin-music-in-movies/311825/33 "2005-07-12T00:57:58Z")
> [@Trunk](#): > > There’s also a nice walking scene in _Goodfellas_ when Ray Liotta is walking through the back of the restaurant to a front row table. But the song is “And Then He Kissed Me,” which doesn’t seem like a badass song. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-ass-walkin-music-in-movies/311825/34 "2005-07-12T01:27:20Z")
> [@Cynical Optimist](#): > > No love for the Peter Gunn Theme?!? I know that’s been used before, but where? I mean, besides the original show. Far too many marching bands. Also, part of The Bishop sketch in Monty Python’s Flying Circus. I have to cast another vote for the Shaft theme. Man, if I could walk down the street to that… ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-ass-walkin-music-in-movies/311825/35 "2005-07-12T03:52:19Z")
> [@don't ask](#): > > If you mean the montage at the end with Napoleon walking, Kip and Lafawnduh back together, and Pedro with his family it is **The Penguin Cafe Orchestra** ’s _Music For a Found Harmonium_. Actually, I’nm talking about the scene where Napoleon is wearing the god-awful orange suit he got at the second hand store. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-ass-walkin-music-in-movies/311825.md?page=1)