Rene wrote:
"On the subject of cornball songs and movies, isn't it
amazing how a film can invest a corny old song with meaning
that it never originally had. I'm thinking particularly of
Roy Orbison's "In Dreams" in BLUE VELVET & Stealer's
Wheel's "Stuck in the Middle With You" in the infamous
straight razor to the ear scene in RESERVOIR DOGS."
Well, speaking of QT, this is what he had to say about
that:
"[T]hat's one of the things about using music in movies
that's so cool: the fact that if you do it right, it's about
as cinematic a thing as you can do. You're really doing what
movies do better than any other art form. It works in this
visceral, emotional, cinematic way that's special. And when
you do it right and you hit it right, then you can never
really hear that song again without thinking about that image
from the movie."
He goes on to say how, for him, Stand By Me is "owned" by the
movie The Wanderers and Be My Baby by Mean Streets.
Then about Pulp Fiction:
"Yeah, I think "Comanche" and sodomy are married from here on
out. I dare somebody to try to use it and not bring up
connotations."
He almost used "My Sharona" for the scene, but couldn't get
licensing from the Knack.
I think this is also pretty much what George Pelecanos is
trying to do with the music references in his books. This is
not to say George in any way copied QT, but to say they are
of like mind -- both their first works, A Firing Offense and
Reservoir Dogs, came out in 1992, so neither could have been
influenced by the other.
Mark
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