Let’s get Stuck In The Middle With You by Stealers Wheel in Reservoir Dogs and Fight the Power by Public Enemy in Do the Right Thing out of the way.
Oh No - Commodores in The Last American Virgin
Tonight You Belong to Me in The Jerk
Hard Out Here for a Pimp - Three 6 Mafia in Hustle & Flow
“In Your Eyes” - Say Anything
“Mad World” - Donnie Darko
Gotta go with the piano exit of “Layla” in Goodfellas.
“The Entertainer” in “The Sting”
Scorsese, Malick, Lynch.
Journey’s ‘Anyway You Want It’ in Caddyshack!
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“So what?! So let’s dance!!”*
Anything by Tarantino. He’s a master at it.
Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now” in Shaun of the Dead (zombie bar fight with the jukebox blaring out the tune in the background)
‘Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting’ in Fandango.
“For Whom the Bell Tolls” at the start of “Zombieland”
The naked Gun - “Something Tells Me I’m Into Something Good.”
I like the way they’re laughing their heads off coming out of the movie theatre, and then the camera pans back to reveal they were watching “Platoon.”
I miss Leslie Nielsen.
If we stretch the definition of Pop Song to its thinnest, “Welcome to the Jungle.” in Lean on Me (the Joe Clark Movie).
And IIIIIIIIIII will always love YYYYYYYYYOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUU.
I don’t think any song that wasn’t written for a movie is so closely identified with a movie.
Every song in “Until the End of the World” but if I have to choose that would be opening scene with Talking Heads “Sax and Violins”…
Cameron Crowe
Say Anything - In Your Eyes
Singles - Would?
Jerry Maguire -Free falling
And many more
others would be
An American Girl from The Silence of the Lambs
and of course
Singin in the Rain from A Clockwork Orange.
Yeah, Crowe is really the master of this:
Tiny Dancer - Almost Famous
And Wes Anderson deserves a nod for his masterful use of pop music (mostly lesser-known album cuts) in Rushmore:
A Quick One While He’s Away (The Who) - Rushmore
Ooh La La (The Faces) - Rushmore
Johnny Cash’s “When the Man Comes Around” in the opening credits of the Dawn of the Dead remake.
“The End” in Apocalypse Now
Van Morrison - Everyone at the end of the Royal Tennenbaums.
Just gives the ending of the story added majesty and grace. Wes Anderson is very, very good with songs.
Same movie, “Jump in the Fire” by Harry Nilsson, when Ray Liotta is freaking out.
Absolutely!
Joe
Sister Christian in Boogie Nights.