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post #1 of 5
8/2/02 at 11:16am
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..and it was in the vein of Moulin Rouge, which meant you got to choose already popular songs for the singing, what would it be about and what songs would you choose?

Around the same time MR came out, I was toying with a similar idea. It was basically an update of West Side Story with Irish and Italian gangs with a bit of Rent thrown in there. It was narrated by a "Rock God". Among the songs were:

-Baba O'Reilly-The Who
-All Right Now-Free
-Tiny Dancer-Elton John
-Sympathy for the Devil/Eleanor Rigby-Stones/Beatles
-I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)-Meat Loaf
-Crash into Me-Dave Matthews
-Bat out of Hell-Meat Loaf
-All Along the Watchtower-Dylan
-Life Uncommon-Jewel
-Night Moves-Bob Seger/Silver Bullet Band

There were a bunch more ,but I forget what they were.
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post #2 of 5
8/2/02 at 3:46pm
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dan laugharn:
That's the best I could come up with outside of "obviously riffing on Scorsese" comments.
Billy Joel, actually....
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post #3 of 5
8/2/02 at 8:02pm
Supernatural Swashbuckler with all music by Queen.
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post #4 of 5
8/2/02 at 8:44pm
I've toyed with the same idea, except mine was set in a high school in the early- to mid-80s and was basically the chronicle of a typical day:

"I Wanna Be Sedated" by the Ramones -- as our lead character wakes up, gets ready for school, and rides the bus. The whole time, everyone around him is moving in hyper-real fast motion while he plods along in slow motion. The last chord would be the reveal of the front of the school as he steps off the bus.

"Take a Chance On Me" by ABBA -- as the resident pretty boy walks the halls, all the young girls watch and spontaneously break into this song, dancing and swooning in unison as the heart-throb passes them by with his girl.

"Under Pressure" by Queen and David Bowie -- our lead's class taking a very important standardized test (SAT or the like). The snapping at the beginning is in time to the second hand on the clock on the wall. Pan down to the teacher proctoring the test, who excuses himself to go to the bathroom (no dialog, but it's implied). Continue to pan across to our lead as Brian May's noodling plays. Then as soon as the first cry of "Pressure!" comes from the song, our lead slams his pencil down on the desk and sings the song. As the song builds, the rest of the room abandons the test and cavorts to relieve the pressure. When Bowie starts his "The sky's such an old-fashioned high" sequence, it's sung by one student we slowly dolly in on, a forlorn, beaten-down look on their face. Right after "This is ourselves!" someone notices the teacher coming back, and they all scurry back to their seats just in the nick of time, and the whole scene reverses the sequence to end back on the clock with the fingers snapping.

I hadn't figured out the details yet, but I know I also wanted to use Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take It" and "Subdivisions" by Rush.
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post #5 of 5
8/2/02 at 9:30pm
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Poxy Von Sinister:
"Under Pressure" by Queen and David Bowie -- our lead's class taking a very important standardized test (SAT or the like). The snapping at the beginning is in time to the second hand on the clock on the wall. Pan down to the teacher proctoring the test, who excuses himself to go to the bathroom (no dialog, but it's implied). Continue to pan across to our lead as Brian May's noodling plays. Then as soon as the first cry of "Pressure!" comes from the song, our lead slams his pencil down on the desk and sings the song. As the song builds, the rest of the room abandons the test and cavorts to relieve the pressure. When Bowie starts his "The sky's such an old-fashioned high" sequence, it's sung by one student we slowly dolly in on, a forlorn, beaten-down look on their face. Right after "This is ourselves!" someone notices the teacher coming back, and they all scurry back to their seats just in the nick of time, and the whole scene reverses the sequence to end back on the clock with the fingers snapping.
Genius. Pure Genius.

Oh yeah, and a few more songs I remembered I wanted to use were:

-You're So Vain by Carly Simon
-Have You Seen Her/Every Breath You Take
-Only The Good Die Young by Billy Joel
-Pretty Vacant by the Sex Pistols
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