Movie Rantings and Ravings

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

I Can't Take My Ears Off Of You

Does anyone remember the song from the beginning and end of Closer last year? It's very irritating in that it has this tendency to pop into my head at very random times and I can't get rid of it for hours.

And so it is
Just like you said it would be
Life goes easy on me
Most of the time
And so it is
The shorter story
No love, no glory
No hero in her sky

I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes...

-- "The Blowers Daughter" by Damien Rice

I only bring it up because sometimes the use of certain songs is as critical to a movie's quality as an original score is, yet no credit is ever given to it. Should there be? The right song can imprint part of a movie in your mind forever; I'm probably not going to forget the opening and closing scenes of that movie anytime soon. Some other examples of movies that do this very well, even better, that immediately spring to mind are almost any of Quentin Tarantino's films, Lost in Translation, and Garden State. Who knows, I'm guessing this would never happen as people view it as just picking up existing work and throwing it in your movie, but I think it takes a real talent to pick the perfect song for the perfect place.

4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I couldn't agree more! I am actually somewhat obsessed with this. I always imagine myself trying to do that job - to pick the perfect song to the feeling of a film. Of course if I had that job I would need to rely on my brilliant brother "JT" to help.

8:05 PM

 
Blogger JW said...

Hmmm.... I think I know who this anonymous is!

8:13 PM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

yep...you are correct

5:24 PM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

ha! I figured out how to type my name!

5:26 PM

 

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