And how many people know that Carmina Burana is one of three?
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.
I know that whole thing pretty well.
“I Know That My Redeemer Liveth”, the soprano solo, will be sung at my mother’s funeral.
Plus the storm (About one minute in).
There’s also theLight Cavalry Overture (two minutes in)
opening notes of Beethoven’s Fifth
Same with Snakes On A Plane.
Twilight Zone: The Movie. So I have to mention the scene?
I thought it was most closely associated with Elmer Fudd singing “Kill the wabbit.”
Beethoven’s Ninth. Most people are unfamiliar with everything but the main theme of the “Ode to Joy.”
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.
This wasn’t true in the '60s, when the opening of the second movement was used as theme music for the Huntley-Brinkley Report.
Eric Clapton’s acoustic version when he did MTV Unplugged didn’t hurt its memorability either.
: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.
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.
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.
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).
People who have never seen Airplane! know the meme “And don’t call me Shirley.”
The Seven Year Itch: Marilyn Monroe stands on a subway grating and a blast of air lifts up her dress
Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry. When and where can I pick up my prize?
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”