Deadsplinter Up! All Night: Movie Edition

23/10/20 KeitelBlacksmith 63

Hit me with trailers, clips, or music from some movies that you dig.

First up, some highbrow.

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

Now some lowbrow.

The Toxic Avenger

Thanks for coming around.

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        • …truthfully, neither is me bitching about it…I have a friend who actually banned me from being involved in conversations about kill bill for reasons which were…not unrelated

          …an homage is one thing…& maybe if he’d cut it down to a single movie instead of a double feature I could have rolled with it…but for my money the half-dozen or so movies he pulled that together from are a better bet

          …for example lucy liu’s character is basically the heroine of a movie called lady snowblood: blizzard from the netherworld…& she’s not the one who ends up bleeding out in the snow

          …although – like resevoir dogs – the cast is amazing & do a great job…the dude in that fight with the crazy 88s that runs down the banisters would break uma thurman like a dry twig in any sane movie…he’s gordon liu…star of many a kung fu flick…not the least of which being this one

          …which is of course where the wu tang got the 36 Chambers thing on their album…which also featured this tune

          …& yes…that was also a movie

  16. This scene in Master and Commander introduced me to Ralph Vaughan Williams and Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis – which is such a beautiful piece of music.
     


     
    Full piece of music with full orchestra, smaller orchestra and quartet like it was written.
     

     

  18. “Space Age Love Song” in Career Opportunities (Aka One Wild Night). (I’ve not seen the movie, but I love the song.)
     


     
    “A Million Miles Away”. The Plimsouls even appeared to play the song in “Valley Girl”. 
     

     

    • The Plimsouls were apparently the house band at that club they go to in that movie. Two awesome Sparks songs on that soundtrack which is chock full of new wave greats.
       

  23. I really love John Barry’s movie scores. They have a terrific cinematic sound. He’s most famous for the classic Bond films, but he’s done a lot of movies. These are two favorites. The Knack… and How To Get It was Richard Lester’s film made between A Hard Day’s Night and Help. Great, jaunty score with moments that sound just like a James Bond movie.
     


     
    And his music for the 1976 King Kong remake is outstanding. Unfortunately the movie doesn’t do it justice.
     

  29. …apologies for all the random kung fu movie stuff but I seem to have come over all nostalgic…so, following on from that stuff about the wu tang…GZA’s liquid swords album samples heavily from a particular film

    …the movie’s called “shogun assassin“…which is kind of a blend (iirc) of two films (it’s pretty great in its own right & I think might have a “better” soundtrack) from a series called lone wolf & cub…of which they made about a half-dozen in the 70s…& was a manga series (the print kind, rather than animation) that is entirely fantastic if you like that kind of thing…sadly I had to read most of it in the kind of paperback-sized editions that are about the only format you seem to find that kind of thing in translation but when I was a student back in the dim & distant past I knew someone who had the first few in a nearly A3 format that looked spectacular…it somewhat surprisingly draws on a fair bit of buddhist theory in a few places…some of which is pretty much legit…& some pretty much made up to fit the story

    […so…nostalgic…& also kind of a comic geek…apologies if nobody else around these parts is much interested in that kind of thing]

  30. The final duel of the greatest Western ever, Once upon a time in the West (1968). If you haven’t seen it don’t click play, go watch the whole thing. Music by the great Ennio Morricone:
     


     
    here’s the opening scene too:
     

      • …think I’ve done enough kung fu references for one thread so I won’t post the clip of the insane fight with the ladders from the end of once upon a time in china…but between that, the western & once upon a time in america I definitely feel like once upon a time in mexico had a hard time clearing the once-upon-a-time bar?

  31. President Trump and his advisers have repeatedly discussed whether to fire FBI Director Christopher A. Wray after Election Day — a scenario that also could imperil the tenure of Attorney General William P. Barr as the president grows increasingly frustrated that federal law enforcement has not delivered his campaign the kind of last-minute boost that the FBI provided in 2016, according to people familiar with the matter. ….

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-order-federal-civil-service/2020/10/22/c73783f0-1481-11eb-bc10-40b25382f1be_story.html

    I can’t believe this is happening. I can’t believe they talk about this openly and here isn’t even the slightest hint of blow-back, much less prosecution. trevor noah was so right when he called trump america’s african dictator back in 2015:
     

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