This scene from "Pulp Fiction" involves Mia and Vincent dancing in a twist contest to " You never can tell." This is a great example of music in the movies. Tarentino is famous/infamous for his use/abuse of music in his films. Personally I can't get get enough of his abuse. I remember the firsts time I saw the scene in "Pulp Fiction" where Mia and Vincent are getting reading for a date while " Son of a Preacher Man" plays. I was hypnotized and I had no idea why. Same for a torture scene in "Reservoir Dogs" where Micheal Madsen dances to the feel good seventies hit " Stuck in the Middle with You" while torturing a cop. WARNING VIOLENCE: However Tarentino is not the only the only director to utilize music. Sofia Coppola also did so controversially in her film " Marie Antoinette." I found it inspired when she filmed a montage of divine/despicable decadence in the 17th century to " I Want Candy."Or when she opens the screen on a smug Marie being pampered while Gang of Four plays.
Nowadays with i pods everyone has a soundtrack to their life. This makes music in film even more powerful.
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I absolutely 100% agree with you that music plays a tremendous roll in the movie experience. I tried this in a sociology class I took and I think it just magnifies how important music and sound is in movies: Watch a film you have never seen before completely muted with subtitles (so you know what's going on) and then watch it again like you normally would and you can see how differently you percieve the movie.
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