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   Willard
   Willard · Nov 12, 2015

   The title is pretty self explanatory. What are your favorite uses of music in movie scenes?
   
   I have three.
   
   

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   Spoiler alert to those who haven't seen it. But yeah, this is oddly beautiful.
   
   Brian Eno's The Big Ship in The End of The Tour
   

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   I can't find a clip of the ending on YouTube, but this song goes well with the image of David Foster Wallace dancing in the church and is probably the last moment in theaters to make me cry.
   
   Another recent one
   Starman by David Bowie in The Martian
   

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   Self explanatory.
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   Gringoamericano Creator
   Gringoamericano · Nov 15, 2015

   The only reason why I saw the Scott Pilgrim movie was because Beck did the Music for it.
   
   While it did not sound like typical Beck-fare (which I would've been disappointed by had I not fallen in love with the film), it awakened a craving for super lo-fi sounding stuff.
   
   

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   Gringoamericano Creator
   Gringoamericano · Nov 15, 2015

   Side note; I had no idea a Liars song was used in 50/50
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   hyperview
   hyperview · Nov 15, 2015

   There's probably millions of films that have excellent control over the music they choose in each scene, but the director that pops to mind for me is Xavier Dolan. He seems to know exactly what he's doing with his music choice and it always makes the scene much more effective.
   
   Here's one from Laurence Anyways, using Fever Ray's 'If I Had a Heart'
   
   

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   And another one, using Moderat's 'A New Error'
   
   

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   NovemberCrow
   NovemberCrow · Nov 19, 2024

   I think Umbrella Academy does thus very well. I watched only first season yet, but the soundtrack is just…great!

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