Best Movie Moments Involving Music

[vacationland]

I have to name-check the hilarious (and deliberately, wildly inappropriate) production number "Springtime for Hitler" in The Producers. It's just so, so very wrong, on so many levels, and never fails to crack me up when the chorus boy in SS garb starts warbling:

"Springtiiime for Hit-lerr and Germanyyyy/Winter for Poland and France/We're marching to a fast-er paaaace/Look out, here comes the MAST-er raaace!"

I mean, my GOD! Couldn't be more offensive if they tried (which I suppose was the point, considering the film's plot), but I can't help laughing every damn time I see it.

[sexlexia]

There are so many great musicial movies moments that it's hard to pick so I'll stick with one I recently saw in The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring. (Yes, I rewatch these all the time and am a Big Geek, why do you ask?)

I love Howard Shore's work in all the movies but the scene where the Fellowship is dealing with the lost of Gandalf is so poignant and sad which is due in large part to the music and the high clear voice that's singing. (I don't have my CD near by so can't say whose voice it is, sorry.) It makes me cry every.single.time.

[heavenwithagun]

chibinekocutie said:

And Disney movies have a way of tugging at my heartstrings with their music. Like the scene in "Dumbo" when he had to leave his mum(Baby of mine I think)...

Now don't you start talking about Dumbo when I'm just starting to recover. And don't ask me how many years ago that I saw it, please.

One of my favorite musical moments at this time is when Hugh Grant takes to the stage in About A Boy. That's when the waterworks start and continue until the movie is over.

[PearlySweetcake]

Oh.my.God. Frank N. Furter's elevator descent at the beginning of "Sweet Transvestite" in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The whole audience clapping/stamping/thwacking the sides of their seats in time to Frank's stomping platform heel. And then, when he throws off his cape, sheer orgasmic hysteria.

[messageunit]

I've always had some fondness for the scene in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure when all the historical figures cut loose at the mall. The music starts with Beethoven discovering keyboards. . . and by the end, Gengis Khan is whacking heads off mannequins with a baseball bat and Joan of Arc is pinwheeling her arms to some cheesy 80's rock song. Love it.

[queequeg]

It's not so much a moment as the whole movie, but I think the score for The Shining is really good- very atmospheric.

I also love the way it builds up in the typical horror film way and you think something bad's going to happen but it just ends up being something like a blank screen saying 'Wednesday'.

[sumire]

Jack Black singing "Let's Get it On" at the end of High Fidelity. Blew me fucking away. Who knew an obnoxious character could be so hot?

It's not necessarily the worst movie moment involving music, but I'd like to take a moment here to boo the "Say a Little Prayer" number in My Best Friend's Wedding. Contrived, leaden, annoying, and I hate that song. Actually, this movie was the first time I'd ever heard the song, despite having grown up listening to a goodly number of oldies, so I just didn't buy that an entire lobster restaurant would spontaneously and enthusiastically sing along.

At the beginning of The Lion King, there's that scene where all the animals gather around the pride rock, and the music swells as all the animals bow to Mufasa.

Oh, yeah, that was powerful. And then the movie ends the same way.

[shriekingeel]

My favorite cynical movie moment of all time is when the Andy Williams song "Happy Heart" plays at the end of Shallow Grave.

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sumire- I think portly Jack Black is super hot whenever he is singing or playing guitar.

[pamster]

Bonsai said:

That Drew Barrymore movie, Riding in Cars with Boys? There's a scene at the beginning when her best friend gets up on stage at a wedding and starts singing. I don't know the name of the song but it's got the lyrics "You were my first love and you'll be my last love, I'll be true to you." It's an old 50's/60's classic. Anyhow, it's the Brittany Murphy character who sings it and she has a surprisingly sweet voice. I love that scene because it was so unexpected. (Although she gets interrupted, so you don't get to hear much...)

That song is "Soldier Boy" (done by the Shirelles in 1962). Sorry, I just have this compulsion to tie up loose ends! *covers eyes in embarrassment*