Finally got around to watching Big Fish on HBO. Now, maybe I just hallucinated this, but…when this movie first came out, I remember the commercials always playing the song “Your Move” by Yes (the first part of “I’ve Seen All Good People”, which goes “Take a straight and stronger course to the corner of your life…'Cause it’s time, it’s time in time with your time and its news is captured…”) It actually revived their career (a little bit) and earned the band an appearance on the old Craig Kilborn show.
However…the song was NOT in the movie! What gives? Was Tim Burton too cheap to license the song for DVD/cable? Or, was it only used in the trailer to begin with? (And if #2 is true, what IS IT with stupid movie trailers using music that’s not in the actual film? That’s false advertising, isn’t it??)
Definitely #2, and it’s such a common tactic that I wouldn’t consider it false advertising at all. Anyway, the songs used in the trailer are used to set a particular tone or convey a succinct message, but may be inappropriate or redundant in the context of a longer film. Also, the clearances for the song copyrights are different for movies and trailers, so the legal angle may not all be ironed out by then, anyway (this is similar to how they use “temp” film scores from previous films, since the actual original film music hasn’t been written by the time the trailer is prepped).
I dunno, but surely Burton had a vastly bigger budget for Big Fish than Andrew Fleming had for Dick, which uses the second half of the same song (“All Good People”).
Well, the Darkness’ “That Thing Called Love” was in all the commercials for The Girl Next Door, yet the song is nowhere to be found in either the movie or the soundtrack.
Selected a song that hasn’t been done to death in trailers (like James Brown’s “I Feel Good,” Peter Gabriel’s “Rhythm of the Heat” or Orff’s “O Fortuna”).
Now, I’m not sure how far ahead of a movie’s release trailers are usually made, but it’s likely to me many months, at which point the actual soundtrack may still be unfinished. So, when a song is used in a trailer, I don’t assume that song will actually be used in the movie. It’s likely to be just a song that seemed to fit the general tone the advertisers are going for.
The first theatrical trailer for Hellboy featured two Dimmu Borgir songs, which really picqued my interest in the movie, as well as conjuring images of the kinds of things such mainstream exposure could bring, like Dimmu Borgir action figures and Dimmu Borgir lunch boxes. Sadly, neither song made it to the soundtrack, and the movie suffered for it.
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Wha? Please tell me what trailers have used “Rhythm of the Heat” so I can try and track them down! I thought that was a pretty obscure song. It’s not like it was a hit or anything. I have heard “In Your Eyes” a couple of times.
I can’t think of any such trailers off the top of my head, but I HAVE heard it used many times.
Like you, I was surprised, because even though it’s a great song, it’s not one of Peter Gabriel’s big hits. But for some reason, the drum passage that closes the song gets used in the trailers of action movies on a regular basis.
Wasn’t *Solisbury Hill *used in a Big Fish trailer? That’s not in the