How about guessing movies based on a musical clue…
Specifically, I am referring to music that participates in the plot somehow, and not the background score.
Here’s a few to prime the pump. If you have an answer, please provide a quote if appropriate as well.
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[li]The length of a tune extends a man’s suffering.[/li][li]A ditty was deemed to have more notes than proper.[/li][li]A gang of chaps made sure they could play louder than anyone else.[/li][li]The final note determines a man’s death.[/li][li]The key of A averts a sure beating.[/li][li]The key of B-flat unlocks something.[/li][li]The key of B saves a fellow’s family.[/li][li]The key of C becomes a song.[/li](couldn’t think of something for D-flat to continue the progression)
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<1> Could be *Per qualche dollaro in più *. When the music from Del Indio’s wristwatch stopped playing, they both had to draw. (Look for a reference to this music in the Trivia section of the movie Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, added by me).
<3> “Play La Marseillaise!!” Casablanca
<4> That Bugs Bunny episode where dynamite is attached to a piano key and Yosemite Sam can’t stand that Bugs is playing the wrong note?
<6> Wargames, where he plays back a recording of the keycode to get out of his holding cell inside NORAD?
Amadeus, where the Franz Joseph (?) tells criticizes a Mozart opera, saying “Too many notes.” Although maybe this doesn’t count, since it was a Broadway show first.
I’ve seen #2 (A ditty was deemed to have more notes than proper.) in an episode of the Jeeves and Wooster series on PBS. IIRC, it was from one of the original stories.
Bertie says “This song has too many notes!” as he tries to play the piano. “A simple syncopated rythm, sir” says Jeeves.
Now I have to drag that film out and see if it is really in D. Considering that a significant portion of the world’s population calls our C “Do”, it would be pretty funny if the kids were singing D when they said that word.
