Top 6: Uses of Music In Non-Musicals
Our Top 6 list for Episode 19 is about uses of music in non-musicals. It's a wide-open field, as virtually every single film makes use of music, often in a number of different ways. Sam narrowed down the field by excluding all soundtrack music from consideration: in his list, the music all comes from within the story.
What are some of your favorite musical moments from non-musicals?
As always, we recommend listening to the episode before reading further.
Stephen
- "La Marseillaise," from Casablanca (1942)
- "Also Sprach Zarathustra," 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- "Gonna Fly Now," Rocky (1976)
- "Tiny Dancer," Almost Famous (2000)
- The climax of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
- "Ride of the Valkyries," from Apocalypse Now (1979)
Sam
- "On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine," from Way Out West (1937)
- "La Marseillaise," from Casablanca (1942)
- The crescendo in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
- "Anything Goes" in Mandarin, from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
- "Put the Blame On Mame," from Gilda (1946)
- "Dueling Banjos," from Deliverance (1972)
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