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One of many brilliant scenes in this film -- Kudos to F Murray Abraham and Milos Forman:
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)from the middle of the movie
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)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
(4,138 posts)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
(19,847 posts)DFW
(54,478 posts)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
(86,900 posts)was one of the music writers for that show... back in the day.
DFW
(54,478 posts)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
(4,019 posts)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
(100,129 posts)DawgHouse
(4,019 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)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
(78,249 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)sarge43
(28,946 posts)IcyPeas
(21,931 posts)funny to see Carson the butler from Downton Abbey there looking much younger.
Ahpook
(2,751 posts)But worth it
2naSalit
(86,900 posts)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
(50,011 posts)I can still remember when I saw it in the theater. Outstanding.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)Ino
(3,366 posts)This one taught me how to listen to Mozart...
I have to go watch that movie again, right now!
GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)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:
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
(50,011 posts)IcyPeas
(21,931 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)Can't seem to find a clip, though.
underahedgerow
(1,232 posts)It just is the sum of what all life should be....
'You make me want to shout!"
IcyPeas
(21,931 posts)Glorfindel
(9,740 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)Whew. They couldn't come soon enough.
DawgHouse
(4,019 posts)Joe Shlabotnik
(5,604 posts)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
(12,958 posts)Draft board scene.
nirvana555
(448 posts)start to finish but.....I'm thinking of that Wayne's World Gallileo (? on sp.) scene....
fizzgig
(24,146 posts)olddots
(10,237 posts)Do the Pee Wee !!!!!!!!
fizzgig
(24,146 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,232 posts)Last edited Thu Jul 16, 2015, 10:25 PM - Edit history (1)
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
(3,974 posts)Last edited Fri Jul 17, 2015, 01:55 AM - Edit history (1)
Great musical opening sets up the whole story. There are so many good things about this film.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,232 posts)I just jumped over to EBay and bought a DVD.