Movie Marathon (Part 2)

Nonsuch · January 3, 2023, 4:32pm

Movies with inappropriate music

Appointment with Death
Battleship - Fortunate Son
Dead Man

Jim Jarmusch Western with harsh, atonal guitar score by Neil Young.

Wheelz · January 3, 2023, 4:42pm

Movies with inappropriate music

Appointment with Death
Battleship - Fortunate Son
Dead Man
Inglourious Basterds

“Inappropriate” is an opinion anyway, so I’ll share mine: Tarantino’s use of David Bowie’s Cat People (Putting Out the Fire) was a baffling choice. It’s anachronistic, doesn’t fit the tone of the film, and not least, it’s the theme song of an entirely different movie.

I love IB, but that song just pulls me out of it every time.

Cardigan · January 3, 2023, 6:25pm

Movies with inappropriate music

Appointment with Death
Battleship - Fortunate Son
Dead Man
Inglourious Basterds
The Sting

Again, concerning ‘inappropriate’ I would submit that the Scott Joplin ragtime songs written ~1902 were not contemporary with the time depicted in The Sting (ie. the Depression). Doesn’t mean they aren’t great tunes, just not appropriate to the era.

Bicycle_Bill · January 3, 2023, 9:27pm

Movies with inappropriate music

Appointment with Death
Battleship - Fortunate Son
Dead Man
Inglourious Basterds
The Sting
A Knight’s Tale

Set in the medieval era, it opens with the crowd in the stands stomping and clapping to “We Will Rock You”, fer God’s sake, and goes on from there. Thing is, it worked … and still does!

-“BB”-

Elendil_s_Heir · January 3, 2023, 10:29pm

Yes, it did, and does. So unapologetically inappropriate that it was almost genius.

Movies with inappropriate music

Appointment with Death
Battleship - Fortunate Son
Dead Man
Inglourious Basterds
The Sting
A Knight’s Tale
12 Monkeys

Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World” plays while we know that a worldwide pandemic is just beginning to spread. Ironic, sure, but yeesh…

RivkahChaya · January 4, 2023, 12:32am

Appointment with Death
Battleship - Fortunate Son
Dead Man
Inglourious Basterds
The Sting
A Knight’s Tale
12 Monkeys
Birth of a Nation

There was a score composed especially for the movie, but it’s rarely used since the film’s original run. Usually a classical music score is played that includes “Ride of the Valkyries” accompanying the KKK’s ride into town.

Not that I’m defending the movie, but I’ve heard the original score, and the music that is supposed to accompany that scene is much more sinister.

Typo_Negative · January 4, 2023, 3:04am

It is a murder mystery set in Egypt. The entire score sounds like it was written for a romantic comedy in Manhattan.

Mike_H · January 6, 2023, 8:17pm

Movies with inappropriate music

Appointment with Death
Battleship - Fortunate Son
Dead Man
Inglourious Basterds
The Sting
A Knight’s Tale
12 Monkeys
Birth of a Nation
Marie Antoinette

Lots of anachronistic rock music.

Cardigan · January 6, 2023, 8:27pm

Movies with inappropriate music

Appointment with Death
Battleship - Fortunate Son
Dead Man
Inglourious Basterds
The Sting
A Knight’s Tale
12 Monkeys
Birth of a Nation
Marie Antoinette
Sleeper

Woody Allen featured lots of dixieland jazz in his earlier films, but it’s particularly out of place given the futuristic setting of this particular film. That said, its inappropriateness is used to brilliant comic effect.