# Movies/books/songs etc. largely known because of one famous/infamous part **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 29, 2016, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-books-songs-etc-largely-known-because-of-one-famous-infamous-part/761198 "2016-07-29T16:09:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2016, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-books-songs-etc-largely-known-because-of-one-famous-infamous-part/761198/41 "2016-07-30T11:10:50Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > Carmina Burana is mostly known for “O Fortuna”. And how many people know that Carmina Burana is one of three? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2016, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-books-songs-etc-largely-known-because-of-one-famous-infamous-part/761198/42 "2016-07-30T11:34:41Z")
> [@MovieMogul](#): > > Actually, I’d argue that [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF4HT8J5iaE) is almost as famous as the Lone Ranger theme, but very few people know it also comes from William Tell. Thank you for posting that! I learned something today. Of course it’s very familiar and I had no idea it came from that opera. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2016, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-books-songs-etc-largely-known-because-of-one-famous-infamous-part/761198/43 "2016-07-30T11:40:05Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > Quick, name a passage from Handel’s _Messiah_ that isn’t [The Hallelujah Chorus.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRhjWdr-LAA) I know that whole thing pretty well. “I Know That My Redeemer Liveth”, the soprano solo, will be sung at my mother’s funeral. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2016, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-books-songs-etc-largely-known-because-of-one-famous-infamous-part/761198/44 "2016-07-30T12:28:12Z")
> [@MovieMogul](#): > > Actually, I’d argue that [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF4HT8J5iaE) is almost as famous as the Lone Ranger theme, but very few people know it also comes from William Tell. Plus the [storm](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKrz1pl9oPw) (About one minute in). There’s also the[Light Cavalry Overtur](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=%23&ved=0ahUKEwiB37b1lpvOAhWFlR4KHbpFDfIQ8DUILDAB&usg=AFQjCNF1sHlk2z9QIx28jtvfnGP_UlkifA&sig2=ofp6TfpQkeTkHJ1DzUfb6A)e (two minutes in) ---
**Author:** ![rsat3acr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2016, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-books-songs-etc-largely-known-because-of-one-famous-infamous-part/761198/45 "2016-07-30T13:22:18Z")
opening notes of Beethoven’s Fifth ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2016, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-books-songs-etc-largely-known-because-of-one-famous-infamous-part/761198/46 "2016-07-30T13:54:02Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > _Shark Attack 3: Megladon_ is known, if it’s known at all, for one particular line. Same with _Snakes On A Plane._ ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2016, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-books-songs-etc-largely-known-because-of-one-famous-infamous-part/761198/47 "2016-07-30T14:54:03Z")
Twilight Zone: The Movie. So I have to mention the scene? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2016, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-books-songs-etc-largely-known-because-of-one-famous-infamous-part/761198/48 "2016-07-30T15:10:02Z")
> [@wintertime](#): > > Der Ritt der Walküren (The Ride of the Valkyries) is mostly associated with _Apocalypse Now_, or one of its homages and not the opera I thought it was most closely associated with Elmer Fudd singing “Kill the wabbit.” ---
**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:** [July 30, 2016, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-books-songs-etc-largely-known-because-of-one-famous-infamous-part/761198/49 "2016-07-30T15:50:46Z")
Beethoven’s Ninth. Most people are unfamiliar with everything but the main theme of the “Ode to Joy.” ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_John_Marcej)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2016, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-books-songs-etc-largely-known-because-of-one-famous-infamous-part/761198/50 "2016-07-30T16:10:13Z")
Three of my all time favorite movies have become even more well known because of one scene: **"Psycho"** (the original) - The Shower **"Citizen Kane"** & **“Planet of the Apes”** (the original) - The final reveal at the end. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2016, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-books-songs-etc-largely-known-because-of-one-famous-infamous-part/761198/51 "2016-07-30T16:18:36Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Beethoven’s Ninth. Most people are unfamiliar with everything but the main theme of the “Ode to Joy.” This wasn’t true in the '60s, when the opening of the second movement was used as theme music for the [Huntley-Brinkley Report](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntley-Brinkley_Report). ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2016, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-books-songs-etc-largely-known-because-of-one-famous-infamous-part/761198/52 "2016-07-30T18:47:22Z")
> [@Fugazi](#): > > Layla by Derrick and the Dominos would have been long forgotten if not for the jam at the end. Eric Clapton’s acoustic version when he did _MTV Unplugged_ didn’t hurt its memorability either. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2016, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-books-songs-etc-largely-known-because-of-one-famous-infamous-part/761198/53 "2016-07-30T18:51:10Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > We like sheep! :D:D I thought I was the only one to key on that. We sing it all the time when we spot sheep on the road. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2016, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-books-songs-etc-largely-known-because-of-one-famous-infamous-part/761198/54 "2016-07-30T18:55:19Z")
It seems to me there’s a important distinction between an iconic moment and something known for only such a moment. For example, Beethoven’s Fifth is world-famous, an oft-programmed and recorded symphony known for much more than just its iconic opening motif. If the rest of the symphony were crap, it would have been ditched long ago. The fact that a lot of people don’t know shit about classical music in no way makes that symphony known only for its opening. Ditto for his Ninth, or Richard Strauss’s _Also Sprach Zarathustra_, which was standard repertoire decades before _2001: A Space Odyssey_. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-books-songs-etc-largely-known-because-of-one-famous-infamous-part/761198/55 "2016-08-01T03:26:15Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > Few people have heard [Mike Oldfield’s “Tubular Bells”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRQ-hK766tY) beyond the part that was used as _The Exorcist_ theme. What? It was number one on the British record sales charts, also in Australia & Canada. Hit #7 in the USA charts, and was certified gold record. And has been reissued & extended several times. Heck, that record probably kept Virgib Recirds from going under in the early days. So 3-4 million people bought copies of this, but only listened to the part that was in the movie? Not likely. ---
**Author:** ![Annoying\_Buzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Annoying\_Buzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annoying_Buzz)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-books-songs-etc-largely-known-because-of-one-famous-infamous-part/761198/56 "2016-08-01T07:14:25Z")
There’s more to **Soylent Green** than just people. **Network** ’s “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it any more!” And there are probably a lot of people who can quote Alec Baldwin’s entire monologue from **Glengarry Glen Ross** but have no idea how the film ends (or that Baldwin’s scene isn’t in the original play). ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-books-songs-etc-largely-known-because-of-one-famous-infamous-part/761198/57 "2016-08-01T13:34:05Z")
People who have never seen Airplane! know the meme “And don’t call me Shirley.” ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-books-songs-etc-largely-known-because-of-one-famous-infamous-part/761198/58 "2016-08-01T13:49:10Z")
The Seven Year Itch: Marilyn Monroe stands on a subway grating and a blast of air lifts up her dress ---
**Author:** ![jrbor76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9e8a1a/32.png) [@jrbor76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jrbor76)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-books-songs-etc-largely-known-because-of-one-famous-infamous-part/761198/59 "2016-08-01T21:24:32Z")
_Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry._ When and where can I pick up my prize? ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-books-songs-etc-largely-known-because-of-one-famous-infamous-part/761198/60 "2016-08-01T21:35:40Z")
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