Cinematic Earworms
So, in the course of my gathering info to promote MONKEY WARFARE during the IFFB, I checked out the film's official website. It automatically starts playing songs from its soundtrack, which is a beautiful sublime thing in and of itself - tell me I'm wrong - and when it gets to 'Saturday Afternoon', I'm suddenly right back in the movie...the scene it plays over is one of my favorites, and I've been going back to the song to replay images from that scene in my head. Then on, yup, Saturday afternoon, while poking around window shopping in Harvard Square, one of the stores' inhouse CD started playing an original song from VELVET GOLDMINE, and again, I was blammo! seeing that scene. I went home, pulled out the DVD to remind myself to watch it again, because now I've got those images rolling around in my head.
I get these all the time, cinematic earworms I call them. Is it just me with this affliction? If not, what are the songs that do it to you?
posted by BC @ 5:06 PM
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2 Comments:
Great post, Beth, and I'm glad to contribute! For me, it's got to be "Flower Duet" from Delibes' Lakme opera used in many films, but to glorious effect in Patricia Rozema's I'VE HEARD THE MERMAIDS SINGING. If you don't remember it, check it out here.
Oh man, I LOOOVED that one - I got so mad when British Airways started using it as its theme, and that just opened the floodgates for it getting used left and right. I don't remember what scene it was used for in the film anymore, just that it was featured.
Beth
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