# So What Music Was Used to Introduce People in Movies before Kill Bill Came Out? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 8, 2008, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-music-was-used-to-introduce-people-in-movies-before-kill-bill-came-out/467049 "2008-10-08T20:03:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bubastis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d07c76/32.png) [@bubastis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bubastis)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2008, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-music-was-used-to-introduce-people-in-movies-before-kill-bill-came-out/467049/1 "2008-10-08T20:03:33Z")
Is it just me, or is people walking into a room to the tune from Kill Bill rapidly becoming the most over-used scene in cinema? Here’s the tune in question; [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnfFTVjRpLI) Tomoyasu Hotei - “Battle Without Honor Or Humanity”, I’m told. It’s been in everything from Transformers to Maid of Honor, Kung Fu Panda to Team America. Any other examples? I rapidly grow tired of it. ---
**Author:** ![ArizonaTeach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@ArizonaTeach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArizonaTeach)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2008, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-music-was-used-to-introduce-people-in-movies-before-kill-bill-came-out/467049/2 "2008-10-08T20:32:58Z")
While I agree it’s come up more than average in the past four years (although, still, once a year or so isn’t that much above the average), it’s got a long way to go before it hits _Carmina Burana_ penetration. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2008, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-music-was-used-to-introduce-people-in-movies-before-kill-bill-came-out/467049/3 "2008-10-08T20:46:38Z")
Kill Bill Part 2 not so much, but part 1 was essentially a collage of scenes from various B movies from around the world through the last 50 years. I doubt that there was _anything_ original in the whole thing beyond the addition of modern-day Hollywood production values. It’s a fad that will come and go and come and go, you need have no worry. ---
**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:** [October 8, 2008, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-music-was-used-to-introduce-people-in-movies-before-kill-bill-came-out/467049/4 "2008-10-08T23:49:15Z")
In answer to the OP, the theme from **[The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVnoaPPpWog)**, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-music-was-used-to-introduce-people-in-movies-before-kill-bill-came-out/467049/5 "2008-10-09T00:09:18Z")
_ **Stayin’ Alive** _ by the Bee Gees. I’m sure there have been many parodies/tributes of John Travolta’s strut down the street in the opening of _Saturday Night Fever._ _ **Bad to the Bone** _ by George Thorogood. I don’t know if it was the first use of this music as an “intro” but Arnold’s naked entrance to the bar in Terminator 2 is classic. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-music-was-used-to-introduce-people-in-movies-before-kill-bill-came-out/467049/6 "2008-10-09T01:09:49Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > In answer to the OP, the theme from **[The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVnoaPPpWog)**, of course. That is exactly what I came in here to post. Makes me wish I could whistle better… ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-music-was-used-to-introduce-people-in-movies-before-kill-bill-came-out/467049/7 "2008-10-09T18:15:50Z")
Not movies so much but lots of TV shows like to use “Born To Be Wild” Especially if the character is a typical nerd/loser in an unusual situation. (Such as Al Bundy on a motorcycle)