CITIZEN KANE, sung well

[Marc Chevalier]

Here I am, listening to the radio, and what's playing? An aria that was "sung" rather badly by Charles Foster Kane's brow-beaten second wife, Susan Alexander, in Citizen Kane. Only now, I'm hearing it performed by a true opera singer. It's the first time I've ever heard it sung well. (Citizen Kane all but ruined opera for me.)

Do you associate any famous pieces of music (classical, jazz, rock, whatever) with movies in which they were featured?

 

[Feraud]

Anytime I hear 'Puttin on the Ritz' I think of Young Frankenstein!

 

[Marc Chevalier]

When I hear Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer", I think of The Sting.

 

[Feraud]

When I hear Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer", I think of The Sting.

That is a good one. I do too!

 

[jake_fink]

Herman Hupfield's best known work was kicking around for a decade before it appeared in a film. Now who can hear it and not think of the movie it was so much a part of. As Time Goes By makes pretty well everyone think of Casablance, no?

 

[Mycroft]

That is a good one. I do too!

Me three, though not as much with movies to songs or the other way around. Though I do like movie sound tracks alot, more modern though.

 

[Doh!]

O Fortuna = "Excalibur"

 

[airfrogusmc]

Hard to listen to the Stealers Wheel song Stuck in the Middle With You and not think of Reservoir Dogs...

 

[Feraud]

Hard to listen to the Stealers Wheel song Stuck in the Middle With You and not think of Reservoir Dogs...

hahaha yes. it makes me want to slice an ear off! [huh]

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

Rossini's "The Thieving Magpie"

Brings "A Clockwork Orange" to my mind.

As does Beethoven's 9th.

 

[airfrogusmc]

Clock Work

Or Singing in the Rain and wasn't it the 5th? Its been a long time snce I've seen that film.

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

The 9th, oh my brother,

Or Singing in the Rain and wasn't it the 5th? Its been a long time snce I've seen that film.

The Glorious 9th. :cheers1:

 

[airfrogusmc]

And the 9th is maybe my favorite Beethoven synphony. The memory ain't what it used to be. Speaking of Kubrick, he's high on my all time best directors list.

 

[jake_fink]

Quote:
Originally Posted by airfrogusmc
Hard to listen to the Stealers Wheel song Stuck in the Middle With You and not think of Reservoir Dogs...

hahaha yes. it makes me want to slice an ear off!

And that Lime in the Cocoanut song makes me want to slice off both ears. Yuk.

 

[Mycroft]

And that Lime in the Cocoanut song makes me want to slice off both ears. Yuk.

She put..., that is true I do think of Resevoir Dogs when I hear that, but also my friend John, he had it on his mp3 player when we were in Ecuador, but the song is good.

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

Yeah, Stanley Kubrick,....

And the 9th is maybe my favorite Beethoven synphony. The memory ain't what it used to be. Speaking of Kubrick, he's high on my all time best directors list.

One of my all time favorites. Can't really think of a bad movie that he made, they were all good.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

O Fortuna = "Excalibur"

Actually, it wasn't "O Fortuna" (from "Carmina Burana"). The film's music was copied from that piece. Hollywood does this from time to time. The theme from the film THE RIGHT STUFF was copied (sorry, adapted) from a Tchaikovsky violin concerto. And there are passages from Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker" in the STAR WARS music.

 

[Harry Lime]

"Goodfellas" equals Tony Bennet "I'd go from Rags to Riches..."

"Moonstruck" equals Dean Martin "That's Amore."

"Apocolypse Now" equals The Doors "The End."

"Laura" equals "Laura's Theme."

"Christine" equals George Thorogood "Bad to the Bone."

"The Graduate" equals "Mrs Robinson."

"Robin and the Seven Hoods" equals "My Kind of Town."

"Caddy Shack" equals Kenny Loggins "I'm Alright."

"Blues Brothers" equals "Soul Man."

"Manhattan" equals "Rhapsody in Blue."

"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" equals "Rain Drops Keep Fallin' on My Head."

"The Blackboard Jungle" equals "Rock around the Clock."

"Harold and Maude" equals anything from Cat Stevens.


Harry Lime