# Greatest Musical Moments in Film **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 26, 2011, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-musical-moments-in-film/597616 "2011-09-26T01:56:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-musical-moments-in-film/597616/21 "2011-09-26T19:19:38Z")
“That was Mozart.” ---
**Author:** ![FrigidLizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3bc359/32.png) [@FrigidLizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrigidLizard)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-musical-moments-in-film/597616/22 "2011-09-26T23:51:39Z")
I always thought the “Hallelujah” sequence in Shrek was really brilliant. I must have replayed that scene a hundred times when the DVD first came out. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-musical-moments-in-film/597616/23 "2011-09-27T00:36:40Z")
Les Marseilles. Need I mention the movie? ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-musical-moments-in-film/597616/24 "2011-09-27T00:40:12Z")
The first moments of _A Hard Day’s Night_. **The Chord.** ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-musical-moments-in-film/597616/25 "2011-09-27T00:48:47Z")
_Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story_ has lots of 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Foldup\_Rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Foldup\_Rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foldup_Rabbit)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-musical-moments-in-film/597616/26 "2011-09-27T01:52:04Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > Les Marseilles. Need I mention the movie? This scene makes me a little weepy. Also, I like the not-terribly-well-sung, not terribly-well-played acoustic version of _Moon River_ by Audrey Hepburn in _Breakfast at Tiffany’s_. Her skills might not have been top-notch, but boy, could you feel what she was feeling when she sang that song. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-musical-moments-in-film/597616/27 "2011-09-27T01:53:07Z")
I love Dean Stockwell because he’s [suave](http://youtu.be/aH8FEZvaiAI?t=5m20s) (not necessarily SFW). ---
**Author:** ![audit1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@audit1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audit1)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-musical-moments-in-film/597616/28 "2011-09-27T01:58:44Z")
What’s opera doc ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-musical-moments-in-film/597616/29 "2011-09-27T01:59:00Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > Les Marseilles. Need I mention the movie? No. And I agree. ---
**Author:** ![enomaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@enomaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enomaj)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-musical-moments-in-film/597616/30 "2011-09-27T02:48:44Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > Fearless > > If you are not familar with the movie… > > The film opens just after a plane crash. It follows the survivors. Throughout the film, Jeff Bridges is suffering form PSTD. He takes crazy chances with his life and he has a few flashbacks to this scene but it isn’t till the end of the film that we see it in all it’s glory while Jeff Bridges is suffering an allergic reaction to eating a strawberry, which he knows he is allergic to them. > > [the crash](http://youtu.be/wkO4zp83Ig4) Now I have to watch the whole movie. Pretty powerful scene. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-musical-moments-in-film/597616/31 "2011-09-27T03:17:40Z")
> [@Stormcrow](#): > > “and after that, it’s just the same thing, over and over again…?” “This part…doesn’t really work does it…” ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-musical-moments-in-film/597616/32 "2011-09-27T03:44:32Z")
[non nobis domine](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1GDRx-F1C0) from Henry V by Patrick Doyle. The music underlying the [“we few, we happy few”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-yZNMWFqvM) speech is pretty good too. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-musical-moments-in-film/597616/33 "2011-09-27T04:06:37Z")
> [@panamajack](#): > > [non nobis domine](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1GDRx-F1C0) from Henry V by Patrick Doyle. This. Previously it had been sort of a tie between [Motherless Child](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiJx1Hbn_KM) by Paul Robison and the Red Army Choir and Orchestra doing [Polyushka Polye.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrZNaLDaQw0) I have to admit I also really like Huun Huur Tu singing [Chira Xur](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiraiG_Rwok). ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-musical-moments-in-film/597616/34 "2011-09-27T04:18:54Z")
Ferris Bueller – Twist & Shout (Beatles) ---
**Author:** ![SecretaryofEvil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@SecretaryofEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SecretaryofEvil)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-musical-moments-in-film/597616/35 "2011-09-27T04:46:54Z")
I’ve always loved the scene in **Zulu** when the British soldiers respond to the Zulus’ war song with a rendition of Men of Harlech. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q8EM0G8tjg) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-musical-moments-in-film/597616/36 "2011-09-27T05:59:52Z")
> [@audit1](#): > > What’s opera doc This. Visual and musical perfection. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-musical-moments-in-film/597616/37 "2011-09-27T06:08:00Z")
The closing numbers from Dr. Strangelove and from Monty Python’s Life of Brian. ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-musical-moments-in-film/597616/38 "2011-09-27T06:09:22Z")
Maybe it’s just the context, but I love this scene from the end of [**Sunset Strip**](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO-K5h1CE1M&feature=related). ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-musical-moments-in-film/597616/39 "2011-09-27T06:55:21Z")
Lonette McKee as a fictionalized version of Lena Horne [singing _Ill Wind_ in _The Cotton Club_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3kpIFqPw3g). Amazing vocal performance. I can’t find a link, but Kay Starr’s _Wheel of Fortune_ in _LA Confidential_. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-musical-moments-in-film/597616/40 "2011-09-27T07:11:27Z")
[Rebekah del Rio performing “Llorando (Crying)” in Mulholland Drive.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIpkMg9sh6Q) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-musical-moments-in-film/597616.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-musical-moments-in-film/597616.md?page=3)