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I hope the question isn't as obscure as it sounds... :music:

What (in your opinion) is the best use of non-original music (not necessarily songs) in a film. I actually really enjoyed the Ennio Morricone music in Kill Bill 2 - "Navajo Joe" as Bill dies.

What's your favourite?

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Just about all the pieces used in Amadeus. They deftly illustrated the musical gifts of Mozart and punctuated the story dramatically. BTW F. Murray Abraham was brilliant as Salieri.

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the Green Hornet theme in Kill Bill Vol. 1.

I remember it, but where was that in the film?

Where Uma was flying into Japan (Tokyo I think).

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"Symphony No. Something" by Some Dead Guy, Who Likely Happened To Be Russian, in Minority Report.

~Sturgis, who really likes that use of classical music; it especially added to the scene where Anderton watches himself killing Crow

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"Symphony No. Something" by Some Dead Guy, Who Likely Happened To Be Russian, in Minority Report.  

~Sturgis, who really likes that use of classical music; it especially added to the scene where Anderton watches himself killing Crow

That's Schubert's 8th to you, bucko! :pukeface:

Ray Barnsbury - who owns that and about three other classical works

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"Symphony No. Something" by Some Dead Guy, Who Likely Happened To Be Russian, in Minority Report.

I assume you are referring to Schubert's "Unfinished" symphony #8 (or now #7). He was Austrian, not Russian.

Marian - :pukeface:

;) Hamlet (Patrick Doyle)

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I was just being fecicious, which btw, is a cool word (when spelled right?)

I didn't know that was said symphony, but I had heard of it.

~Sturgis - :|

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I actually really enjoyed the Ennio Morricone music in Kill Bill 2 - "Navajo Joe" and L'Arena as the Bride.....

L'Arena. So that's what that fantastic musical piece is called. I loved that when I first heard it. Now, I have to get that music. Does anyone have an MP3 of this?

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Wagner's The Ride of the Valkyries in Apocalypse Now is a classic example!

Barber's Adagio for strings in Platoon

Saint-Saens The Carnival Of The Animals - The Swan in Days of Heaven

Purcell' Funeral march for Queen Mary

Beethoven 9'th Symphony

Rossini' Overtures

Singing in the Rain

in Clockworck Orange

R. Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra

J. Strauss' The Blue Danube

Khachaturian' Adagio from Gayaneh

2001: A Space Odyssey

Those were most impressive for me!

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I loved the use of Bach's Goldberg Variations in Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal.....simple, but effective in portraying that side of Lecter's psyche....

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