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Saturday Evening Movie Thread 03-24-2018 [Hosted By: TheJamesMadison]Music! Again! So, AshevilleRobert wrote to me and suggested a thread idea. He wanted to talk about music made by fiction movie bands (there was more to it, but this is what I'm focusing on). I thought it was a good idea, so here we go! You've got a movie idea, and it revolves around a band. They need to win a contest, or the girl, or whatever. Mostly, though, they need a song. They could do covers, but that could cost a bit more money than simply writing a new song, so you hire someone to write something. And it had better be good, because if it's not, then the major plot point around that song (playing it for the girl so she falls in love with your main character) could fall completely flat with your viewing audience. Otherwise, you might get this: No hate on Bill and Ted. Those two will save the future.
Rocking at School So, you've got a major plot point that needs a rocking song. You've hired the right guy, and he's made the tune. You've hired a real band to play behind over the actors (or you've hired musicians to act, or taught actors to play), and it's time to perform. How do you balance how it plays with an onscreen audience versus the real audience? Have you ever seen a scene where the audience has some huge reaction to an event, but you just don't get it? The two characters you hate get together, everyone claps, and you're just wishing that they'd die? Or there's a daring escape that looks terrible, easy, and had no real point while innocent bystanders cheer in amazement? That's the sort of reaction that can happen when your music is actually bad, the audience cheers wildly, and you end up looking around you like you've suddenly appeared in an alternate reality. I genuinely like the movie School of Rock. I think it's a near perfect vehicle for Jack Black's manic energy. It also has a cast of kids that never become terribly annoying. It's an easy and well-told tale that's fun all the way through. In researching this post, I watched the below clip and realized how out of synch I was with the audience. The song is okay, but nothing close to standing ovation: The kids play well, Jack Black plays with his manic energy, but they don't make up for the fact that song is only okay. In the context of the whole movie, it works a bit better, but revisiting the movie years later, I don't feel the injustice of the kids losing the Battle of the Bands anymore.
It seems that a movie like This is Spinal Tap would be all about the music, but since it's a mockumentary about a failing rock band, the movie's actually about embarrassing the band. The music itself is secondary. However, that being said, the music is actually pretty good. My favorite thing they did was "Stonehenge". More than the dancing little people and the tiny model descending from the ceiling, I grew up with Jethro Tull in the house and the song is really just missing that flute to fit right in with that discography.
I might as well take a moment to talk about a rather cliched scene in movies about musicians. It's the scene where the musician, that no one believes in up to that point, arrives in the recording booth. The person manning the controls either is actively against them or completely indifferent. The musician starts playing and changes everyone's hearts with the power of song. The only way this possibly works is by the music being really good. I think it works best in the movie Once, which was a tiny little Irish movie from about ten years ago that ended up making a shocking amount of money, especially when considering its budget. It was made for about $150,000 and made more than $20 million. Part of that was because of the music, which was written by its star Glen Hansard. Here's that scene: My favorite rendition of this trope is from Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. Let that speak for itself:
So, fake movie bands. Favorites? Favorite songs? Which were the worst? Would we create world peace of they finally made Bill and Ted 3? These are the questions that you must answer in the comments below.
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