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A Clockwork Orange- Beethoven's 9th, Singin in the Rain, Overture to Rossini's Thieving Magpie. Ever since I saw that movie, said songs are now inseperable in my head from psychopathic antics and ultraviolence.
American Psycho- Hip to be a Square, Walkin on Sunshine, and Lady in Red. All of those songs summon the impression of the high rolling, ultra-materialistic orgy of 80's wall street now.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas- I know the song only appears in the title, but the fact that it's being crooned eerily while accompanying splashes of blood over film of the 60's still gets me.
Still thinking. I'm sure there are others along the Martin Scorcese line. Any reccomendations?
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I still can't hear "Stuck in the Middle With You" by Stealers' Wheel without immediately thinking of psychotic torture.
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I don't know if the song is ruined so much as linked with how uncomfortable dried clay would be... yeah, it's ruined.
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Some people I know want to watch A Clockwork Orange, and then I told them that it was "really violent", I didn't even say the content (which I know from reviews etc). Personally, it's not a movie I want to watch, just for the ruined songs connotations.
A movie that changed music for me was Amadeus. I feel compelled to play Mozart now, but when I do, I am tragically sad. It's not ruined, just... different.
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I haven't even seen that movie but even though *some* of the Beatles covers done for the soundtrack were good, none of them are as good as the beatles, and now everyone plays them all the time and quite frankly some of them are terrible and it makes me VERY VERY VERY ANGRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I don't know what was more disturbing: Watching Pink Floyd's The Wall , or listening to the soundtrack after watching the movie with an entirely different understanding.
Sort of like when your mom says,"Geez, that Dave Matthews Band song is really really cool", and then you have the misfortune telling her it is about fellatio.
But anyway, this does not really belong here as "the song ruining the movie". Both are very good, IMHO, just shocking as Tom's EXCELLENT post from Tarentino's Reservoir Dogs.
But "Hey You" still makes me want to shave off my eyebrows, go ballistic in a hotel room with booze, drugs and violence, then dress like an SS stormtrooper (WWII variation) and woo the crowd with song. Amazing.
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Watching Turner Classic movies this past weekend I learned that the light, happy Doris Day song, "Que Sera, Sera" (Whatever will be, will be, The future's not ours to see, Que Sera, Sera.) is sung by Doris Day in one of Hitchcock's thrillers "The Man Who Knew Too Much" as the bad guys are stealthly attempting to murder Doris Day's son.
I don't know if it ruined the song, but it did add an eerie undercurrent to the music.
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That famous D Minor piece by Bach... I had thought of it as a beautiful peaceful thing...but thanks to Evangelion the movie now it's this terribly sad funeral dirge for the end of humanity and the betrayal of lovers... *sniff*
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It didn't ruin it for me, but Die Hard has screwed up Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" for some people -- the piece is played when the thieves open up a safe, and since the movie takes place at Xmas time, I once had someone ask me why I was listening to Xmas carols when I was listening to the "Ode to Joy" section of Beethoven's 9th Posts: 2911 | Registered: Aug 2001
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Clockwork Orange almost ruined Ode to Joy for me... but I love it too much and it's power is just too awesome to be ruined. Posts: 4953 | Registered: Jan 2004
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quote: It didn't ruin it for me, but Die Hard has screwed up Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" for some people -- the piece is played when the thieves open up a safe, and since the movie takes place at Xmas time, I once had someone ask me why I was listening to Xmas carols when I was listening to the "Ode to Joy" section of Beethoven's 9th
So... did you slap them once, or a whole lot?
BTW, Reservoir Dogs is a great nominee.
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