Movie Fight Club: Question 95
A strong finish by new MFC member, Peter David Balis and the Elephant Man propelled him into last week’s winner’s circle. This week, Peter gets the honor of asking the question:
What is the best use of music you have ever seen (or heard?) in a non-musical?
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The main theme from Rocky. Whenever those horns fire up they startle you and put you into a time-to-fight headspace. In the first movie it was an iconic training montage. In the third, it signaled the character (Rocky) turning a mental corner, going from a defeated, dejected man wrestling with fear for the first time in his life into that scrappy champion we knew two movies earlier.
But the best use of that piece of music is in Creed. That film uses a completely different soundtrack, with modern hip-hop. The climactic fight initially plays out with hardly any music at all, which was very different for a Rocky movie. But at a critical moment toward the end, when Creed needs to tap into that extra gear, that Iconic music fires up and you remember you're in a Rocky movie. Brilliant.
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I'll bite!
The scene near the end of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, where we communicate with the aliens through music, which serves as a universal language.
It IS possible to get along, despite the gulfs that seem to separate us.
We just need to find common ground.