Post a favorite music-centric movie scene

[GreatGazoo]

One of many brilliant scenes in this film -- Kudos to F Murray Abraham and Milos Forman:

[CBGLuthier]

1. Holy Motors

from the middle of the movie

[Gidney N Cloyd]

2. Siren scene from "O Brother Where Art Thou"

[GreatGazoo]

3. very well done -- it has that "time-stands-still-world-could-end-but-Im-just-a-deer-in-the-headligh

ts-of-Love" quality.

A similarly potent mix of love, lust, addiction and mortality is evoked here in a VERY different film (that I love):

[cemaphonic]

18. The radio station recording of "Man of Constant Sorrow" is pretty great too

Leave it to the Coens (and of course the actors and musicians involved) to make lip-syncing an old folk song funny. Seems like pretty much everybody that has done that song since O Brother tries to sing it like Dan Tyminski too.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

25. Stephen Root was amazing as the vision impaired radio guy.

[DFW]

4. For me, NOTHING tops Hot Lunch from "Fame"

[GreatGazoo]

10. Love it.

I worked next door to that high school in 1998/99 and would walk through their students on the sidewalk practicing on their instruments, singing, reciting Shakespeare, all kinds of stuff. They weren't as well choreographed as the movie. Bolstered my faith in the next generation.

It is a public magnet school which students have to audition for:
http://laguardiahs.org/

I used to quote the TV show opening all the time -- "You got big dreams? you want some fame? Well right here is where you start payin'!"

[2naSalit]

15. I knew somebody who

was one of the music writers for that show... back in the day.

[DFW]

24. We saw that movie at such a perfect time

It was Christmas 1981, and my future wife and I had booked a vacation in the Caribbean with some money I had saved up. We got to JFK, where BIWI airlines was to take us to Barbados to change for the commuter to St. Vincent. We spent the night at an airport hotel, and it was below zero with the wind-chill outside. The next morning, the jetway froze, and they had to tow the plane to the next gate so we all could board. We were only too ready to leave Siberia behind.

The meal came, and it was spicy creole food, and our mood lightened up a little (we love that stuff). Then we pulled down the shades and the movie came on (in those days, there was only one). It was FAME, and it left us in a GREAT mood. After the movie was over, we pulled up the window shades, and instead of grey, frozen New York, we saw blue waters specked with green islands. Now, THAT was a great beginning to a vacation!

[DawgHouse]

5. My first thought was Reservoir Dogs - Stealer's Wheel

Warning, it's graphic, in Tarantino style PLUS in includes a major spoiler if you haven't seen the movie.

I always liked that song and the movie scene changed it for me forever! Can't listen to it now without doing a little crazy dance.

[Initech]

27. I can't hear that song without covering my ears.

[DawgHouse]

30. That too!

[Arugula Latte]

6. From 24 Hour Party People (Manchester music scene)

This shows how influential a sparsely attended Sex Pistols concert was to the future of music ... because of who was in the audience. Apparently Morrissey of the Smiths was also there, but not mentioned.

[KamaAina]

7. Blues Brothers - Rawhide

[Enthusiast]

43. That was the best. nt

[MrScorpio]

8. Seville, Spain from M:I 2

[sarge43]

9. Brassed Off

[IcyPeas]

19. great movie

funny to see Carson the butler from Downton Abbey there looking much younger.

[Ahpook]

11. It's a long one

But worth it

[2naSalit]

12. Love that movie!!

My second favorite would be Stop Making Sense, Talking Heads (1984). Love the whole thing and I would have paid to be one of the back-up singers, they had such a rockin' time!

I have to watch it every couple years, still love it.

[progressoid]

16. Yes!

I can still remember when I saw it in the theater. Outstanding.

[Aerows]

13. Swan Queen alert

[Ino]

14. Excellent scene!

This one taught me how to listen to Mozart...

I have to go watch that movie again, right now!

[GreatGazoo]

23. so many great scenes in that film !

The structure was brilliant -- framing it all as Salieri's confession, we see him slowly consumed by jealousy, a jealousy that speaks to both his and our own passion for music. Couldn't find this scene on YT but it is one of many that give the film its power and tension:

INT. SALIERI'S APARTMENT - BEDROOM - NIGHT - 1780'S

CU, Salieri standing, his eyes shut, shaking in distress.
He opens them and sees Christ across the room, staring at
him from the wall.

OLD SALIERI (V.O.)
From now on, we are enemies, You and
I!

CUT TO:

INT. OLD SALIERI'S HOSPITAL ROOM - NIGHT - 1823

The old man is reliving the experience. Vogler looks at him,
horrified.

OLD SALIERI
Because You will not enter me, with
all my need for you; because You
scorn my attempts at virtue; because
You choose for Your instrument a
boastful, lustful, smutty infantile
boy and give me for reward only the
ability to recognize the Incarnation;
because You are unjust, unfair,
unkind, I will block You! I swear
it! I will hinder and harm Your
creature on earth as far as I am
able. I will ruin Your Incarnation.

http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/amadeus.html

[progressoid]

17. Pleasantville cafe scene

[IcyPeas]

20. Quadrophenia - Love Reign O'er Me - final scene from movie.....

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[Recursion]

21. Final scene of Clockwork Orange, of course...

Can't seem to find a clip, though.

[underahedgerow]

22. GOAT: Ferris Bueller, the Parade Float scene!

It just is the sum of what all life should be....

'You make me want to shout!"

[IcyPeas]

26. Help -- The Beatles

[Glorfindel]

28. Split screen from "The Rules of Attraction"

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

29. The closing credits from the movie Xanadu

Whew. They couldn't come soon enough.

[DawgHouse]

31. LOL, you are so right!

[Joe Shlabotnik]

32. One of my favorites

Critics hated it. Tarantino disowned it. I loved the cars and old time stunts. I actually have the pissed off duck hood ornament, I took it off my truck about a week before it spontaneously burned to the ground. It now manages papers on my desk.

[AgingAmerican]

33. White Boys / Black Boys - from the movie Hair

Draft board scene.

[nirvana555]

34. I don't know how to post and I never even saw the whole movie from

start to finish but.....I'm thinking of that Wayne's World Gallileo (? on sp.) scene....

[fizzgig]

35. i can't believe no one has posted this yet

[olddots]

36. probably the best music scene of any movie ever made

Do the Pee Wee !!!!!!!!

[fizzgig]

37. did you know he has a movie coming out next year?

[Enthusiast]

42. I had forgotten the entire sequence. Thanks for the reminder.

[TexasBushwhacker]

38. I love movie music!

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Apocalypse Now

The Piano

Body Heat

The Virgin Suicides

I especially like it when music is used in an unexpected way.

127 Hours - Lovely Day

[lutefisk]

39. Aria from "La Wally" from the movie "Diva"

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Great musical opening sets up the whole story. There are so many good things about this film.

[TexasBushwhacker]

44. OMG - I loved this movie

I just jumped over to EBay and bought a DVD.

[cemaphonic]

40. Non-diagetic, but you just can't separate this scene from the score:

[Petrushka]

41. William Holden & Kim Novak dancing --- from "Picnic" (1955)

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