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I will never forget the experience of seeing Die Hard on a big screen and the vault being cracked open to Ode to Joy: https://youtu.be/sLMRh62sazs?t=170 https:

by js2 3y ago

I will never forget the experience of seeing Die Hard on a big screen and the vault being cracked open to Ode to Joy: https://youtu.be/sLMRh62sazs?t=170 https://youtu.be/sLMRh62sazs?t=170 Recently I saw Runaway Train for the first time. The final scene is set to Vivaldi's Gloria in D Major: https://youtu.be/VdBd5Hwd1Tg?t=207 https://youtu.be/VdBd5Hwd1Tg?t=207 What are your favorite examples of classical music in movies?

tgv 3y ago
I don't really know. Amadeus is my absolute favorite movie of all time, but it has been set around the music. Tous les Matins du Monde is another fond memory, but it's a biopic of Marin Marais, a composer. In Diva, the excerpt from La Wally works well. The Ride of the Valkyries (sp?) is of course famous, but not so impressive. Let's not forget 2001, a Space Oddyssey. My favorite moment is literary. In one of Douglas Adams' books (Dirk Gently), someone hears fantastic music from some alien space station that he has to "destroy" in the past or something, altering the timeline of the universe, and thus losing the music. But then when he comes back, his girlfriend plays that same music on the cello. I copied this from the book: His face was so amazed that she stopped playing the instant she saw him. "What's wrong?" she said, alarmed. "Where did you get that music?" said Richard in a whisper. She shrugged. "Well, from the music shop," she said, puzzled. She wasn't being facetious, she simply didn't understand the question. "What is it?" "It's from this cantata I'm playing in in a couple of week," she said, "Bach, number six." "Who wrote it?" "Well, Bach I expect. If you think about it." "Who?" "Watch my lips. Bach. B-A-C-H. Johannes Sebastian. Remember?" "No, never heard of him. Who is he? Did he write anything else?" Susan put down her bow, propped up her cello, stood up and came over to him. "Are you allright?" she said. ... [bit later, Richard calls his friend] ... "Reg, the music -" "Ah yes, I thought you'd be pleased. Took a bit of work, I can tell you. I saved only the tiniest scrap, of course, but even so I cheated. It was rather more than one man could actually do in a lifetime, but I don't suppose anybody will look at that too seriously."
- js2 3y ago
  My favorite use of The Blue Danube is actually at the end of The Wages of Fear (1953). I've read the Dirk Gently books but it's been a long time and I don't remember that passage. I wonder if that's where the movie Yesterday got its idea from? BTW, you've seen Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense, yes? I know it's not classical obviously but as far as films set to music, it's hard to top.

by js2 3y ago

tgv 3y ago

I don't really know. Amadeus is my absolute favorite movie of all time, but it has been set around the music. Tous les Matins du Monde is another fond memory, but it's a biopic of Marin Marais, a composer. In Diva, the excerpt from La Wally works well. The Ride of the Valkyries (sp?) is of course famous, but not so impressive. Let's not forget 2001, a Space Oddyssey. My favorite moment is literary. In one of Douglas Adams' books (Dirk Gently), someone hears fantastic music from some alien space station that he has to "destroy" in the past or something, altering the timeline of the universe, and thus losing the music. But then when he comes back, his girlfriend plays that same music on the cello. I copied this from the book: His face was so amazed that she stopped playing the instant she saw him. "What's wrong?" she said, alarmed. "Where did you get that music?" said Richard in a whisper. She shrugged. "Well, from the music shop," she said, puzzled. She wasn't being facetious, she simply didn't understand the question. "What is it?" "It's from this cantata I'm playing in in a couple of week," she said, "Bach, number six." "Who wrote it?" "Well, Bach I expect. If you think about it." "Who?" "Watch my lips. Bach. B-A-C-H. Johannes Sebastian. Remember?" "No, never heard of him. Who is he? Did he write anything else?" Susan put down her bow, propped up her cello, stood up and came over to him. "Are you allright?" she said. ... [bit later, Richard calls his friend] ... "Reg, the music -" "Ah yes, I thought you'd be pleased. Took a bit of work, I can tell you. I saved only the tiniest scrap, of course, but even so I cheated. It was rather more than one man could actually do in a lifetime, but I don't suppose anybody will look at that too seriously."

js2 3y ago
My favorite use of The Blue Danube is actually at the end of The Wages of Fear (1953). I've read the Dirk Gently books but it's been a long time and I don't remember that passage. I wonder if that's where the movie Yesterday got its idea from? BTW, you've seen Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense, yes? I know it's not classical obviously but as far as films set to music, it's hard to top.