Movie Fight Club: Question 16
What the best song performance by a character in a non-musical? (Note: must be a specific song in the film.)
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My vote is for Pippin’s song (Edge of Night) in Return of the King when he’s commanded by repulsive, hateful Denethor to sing him a song during dinner while his only living (but dejected and heroic) son Faramir charges into battle to face certain death in an almost hopeless attempt to stave off the enemy and save the city. It is beautiful, haunting, and grievous.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WskRAEggqkQ
So many options. I've been looking at clips all day.
I narrowed it down to two. The first waa the climatic rendition of Try A Little Tenderness in The Commitments. It was a bold version of a favorite song and just a powerful scene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKfHC5eY5CI
But the other has a greater significance for the overall movie and that is Ralph Machios performance at the end of Crossroads.
If you haven't seen the movie it's a Devil went down to Georgia scenario with a young blues guitarist, Eugene, dueling with the devil in the form of Steve Vai. Vai seemingly has him beat but then Eugene breaks out Caprice #5 by Paganini and blows everyone away. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqdL36VKbMQ
Guitarist Steve Vai actually recorded all the guitar parts but Machio learned the fingering to pull it off.
Final answer: Crossroads, Caprice #5. Because classical always trumps rock.