Which part are you asking? The Herman’s Hermits song? “Something Good.”
Surely, that was the background music of Frank’s first date with Jane. I don’t recall it ever being played during the ball game, and I saw the movie when it first came out in 1988.
I could have sworn it was the same song. I was mystified with subsequent cd’s. I’m pretty sure a fragment was played in the last scene with OJ Simpson, or maybe I’m confusing the last scene with the one in baseball.
The song is “I Love LA” by Randy Newman:
The marching band plays “Louie, Louie”:
I think Herman's Hermits may have been played again over the closing credits. In fact, I'm almost sure of it.Here’s the first date:
The fashion show in True Stories.
I have the version of Dream Operator from that on my iPod. Too bad an official soundtrack was never released without the background sounds.
My all time favorite scene is in Altered States when the skeptic in the group Mason melts down over the “simian” x-ray and starts reciting his resume. As a former college prof., I’ve actually seen professors go into this mode in real life.
“Mason: I’m gonna show these to someone who can read them right, ‘cause you’re reading them wrong, that’s all there is to it. Because no one is gonna tell me you de-differentiated your goddamn genetic structure for four goddamn hours and then reconstituted! I’m a professor of endocrinology at the Harvard Medical School. I’m an attending physician at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital! I’m a contributing editor to the American Journal of Endocrinology and a I am a fellow and vice-president of the Eastern Association of Endocrinologists and president of the Journal Club! And I’m not going to listen to any more of your kabbalistic, quantum, friggin’ dumb limbo mumbo jumbo! I’m gonna show these to a radiologist!”
And I was the one struggling not to shout “Run Forrest run”.
In “The General”
Buster Keaton on the drive rod
The cannon scene
The trestle collapse
If we can add TV series to the mix, I just got finished watching all 3 released ‘seasons’ of the Young Indiana Jones series. I had a blast trying to figure out the exact date and location of a lot of the scenes by the rough age and situations of stuff … and had to absolutely laugh as Indy and Remi were trying to catch a train up to Lake Victoria and ended up on the coastline of British East Africa. They wandered into a camp of old geezers lead by Frederick Selous - the inspiration for Alan Quartermain.
The series is a fun watch - though I had trouble watching a couple of segments in a couple episodes, one in particular where they were sending mounted infantry to Beersheba and deliberately shorting the poor animals on feed and especially water. I know that no animals were actually harmed, but it still bothers me.
Though it is still funny how Indy ends up meeting all these famous people and accidentally getting stuck in famous/notorious situations like breaking into the Schoenbrunn Palace in Vienna or running away in Russia with Tolstoy. It is a fairly interesting and fun way to sneak some history in on kids though - there are actually study guides for the series. I think it would actually be an interesting way to get some history instead of the fairly boring stuff I remember getting pushed at me back in the 70s.
One of my favorite movies and John Goodman’s People Like Us is one of my favorite scenes - and songs.
I have this weird soft spot for “Collateral”.
I don’t particularly like Tom Cruise, and I don’t have much time for Jamie Foxx. But I watch that movie at least 3 times per year.
They were both just magnificent in that movie. Perfect casting.
And I love this way that Vincent says to Max:
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
“You threw a knife at my head.”
“And you caught it.”
The almost silent, except for the music and some yells, scene in The Last of the Mohicans starting with Uncas’ murder, ending after the epic fight avenging that death. Especially Alice’s suicide.
The scenes in Aretha’s soul food restaurant and at Ray’s Music Exchange in The Blues Brothers.
Some fave scenes:
Body Heat, where William Hurt is outside the house and Kathleen Turner is inside the house staring at him through a glass wall with a “come and get it” look that should have been scorching the drapes, and he throws a piece of furniture through the glass to get at her.
Dragon Pink, where the party of heroes stops in a clearing in the woods and Santa jumps on his slave Pink and strips her and ties her up and her response is, “It’s too early!”
The opening scene in Deathstalker, with the slave girl going from one would-be rapist to another as they fight it out over her, before the battle’s only survivor, the movie’s “hero,” is distracted from molesting her by a priest and she escapes into the forest as they talk.
The scene in Secretary where Maggie Gyllenhaal goes to Spader’s house and stands outside his exercise room in the rain and explains to him that they need each other.
The opening shot of Fargo with the car gradually becoming visible in an all-white screen.
The Third Man - The closing shot, in which Anna doesn’t even turn her head.
Spartacus - “I am Spartacus!”
The French Connection - The chase under the train tracks
The Shawshank Redemption - The revelation of the empty cell
2001, A Space Odyssey - “Open the pod bay doors, Hal.”
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - The scene with Tuco in the bathtub
True Grit (the Coen Brothers remake) - The negotiation over the horses
In Return of the Dragon, during the climactic fight between Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris, there is a moment when both men pause and look at each other. Neither actor says a word, but the audience knows exactly what both characters are thinking.
Conan the Barbarian: “Infidel defilers! They shall drown in lakes of blood. Now they will know why they are afraid of the dark. Now they learn why they fear the night.”
In Born on the Fourth of July, Kovic accidentally kills a comrade. Later, he seeks out the dead man’s parents, and tells them what happened to their son. As he begins the story, the father (who is a former infantryman himself) immediately recognizes where the story is leading, and offers Kovic a chance to back out.
Gettysburg: when Longstreet predicts what is going to happen to Pickett’s brigade.
The Mummy Returns: when Imhotep sees his girlfriend betray him. The actor does not say a word, but the audience knows exactly what the character is feeling.
Zulu: African war chant versus “Men of Harloch”. Yes, I know that it never happened. But it should have.
I just thought of another one. In Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the François Truffaut and Bob Balaban characters are traveling around the world to investigate incidents in which the aliens appeared. They’re in a village in India, being led by the village elder (or he might have been the head of an ashram) to the top of a hill while the villagers are chanting the familiar five tones below them. They ask him where they heard the sounds. He asks the same question of his people, in Hindi. There is a close-up shot of all of them simultaneously pointing straight up. Cut to the next scene.