Greatest musical moments in a non-musical film...

[se7en]

I was thinking about powerful moments in a film that involved a song or a musical piece - but that does not involve background music, soundtrack or a musically themed or musical film. So what are your most memorable filmed moments involving music - where it is key to a scene?

Shawshank Redemption - Tim Robbins character plays opera to the prison yard.

Deliverance - Dueling banjos

The Man Who Knew Too Much - Doris Day singing a gut renching rendidtion of what is supposed to be a happy childrens song - Que Sera, Sera - in this Hitchcock thriller

Apocalypse Now - Helicopters blaring Wagner's Flight of the Valkyries

Reservior Dogs - Michael madsen torturing cop

Close Encounters of the Third Kind - The aliens communicate through music

Back to the Future - Marty on the stage trying to change history as he plays Johnny be Good

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - Civil war band forced to play music while Lee Van Cleef tortures Eli Wallach

My Best Friends Wedding - Cameron Diaz does really embarrassing karaoke

Top Gun - Tom Cruise and Anthony Edwards serenade Kelly McGillis (You've go that love'n feeling?)

Say Anything - John Cusack's boombox serenade

These are just a few film moments that stick in my mind regarding a great use of music as a part of a scene in a non-musical film.

 

[Cheesebeef]

Amy Mann's "It's Not Gonna Stop" being sung by the ensemble in the montage right before the **** really hits the fan in MAGNOLIA.

 

[earthsci]

A Clockwork Orange - "Singin' in the Rain"

 

[jenna2891]

"where is my mind" by the pixies will now forever remind me of the end of fight club.

 

[vince56]

The whistling in Kill Bill.

 

[Chaplin]

Paul Oakenfold's "Ready Steady Go" in:

1) The Bourne Identity: During the chase in Paris with Matt Damon and Franke Potente in a Mini.

2) Collateral: Tom Cruise peforming a hit in the Japanese dance club.

 

[Ryanwb]

I can't believe nobody mentioned Risky Business

 

[se7en]

I can't believe nobody mentioned Risky Business

Was it memorable for you when Tom Cruise danced around in his underwear? Sorry, I couldn't resist.

 

[se7en]

Paul Oakenfold's "Ready Steady Go" in:

1) The Bourne Identity: During the chase in Paris with Matt Damon and Franke Potente in a Mini.

2) Collateral: Tom Cruise peforming a hit in the Japanese dance club.

It was cool, but Read Steady Go was part of the soundtrack wasn't it. Or was it playing on the radio in the car? Both of these examples seem as if the music was just background noise, not really integral to the scene. Maybe my memory is bad, I can't seem to recall the Japanese dance club music. I'll have to watch it again to see what made the music so memorable in this scene.

 

[Louis]

What about the Ride of the Valkryies? Anybody like the smell of napalm in the morn'?

Brass in my Pocket karaoke during Lost in Translation.

 

[Cheesebeef]

Roddy McDowell belting out "Singing In The Rain" as he was preparing to rape the woman in front of her husband in CLOCKWORK ORANGE.

That scene would have been disturbing enough without the song, but with him singing it and his lackey echoing only a couple words, it make sit one of the most terrifying scenes of all time.

 

[Cheesebeef]

A Clockwork Orange - "Singin' in the Rain"

oops. my bad.

 

[AZZenny]

Yeah, the Clockwork Orange scene -- Man, that movie was SO disturbing I had nightmares for months. If Apocalypse Now Napalm scene isn't considered 'soundtrack' though, it gets my vote, I think. As a musical, I know the "Bye Bye Love" scene in All That Jazz doesn't count, but it was great.

 

[Kolo]

John Williams' music during the opening sequence in Jaws.

Gene Wilder and the Monster tapdance to "Puttin' on the Ritz" in Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein.

 

[Linderbee]

The men singing "America the Beautiful" as they get gunned down by the Russians in Red Dawn...the movie is kinda cheesy, but that scene was really upsetting to me when I was younger...not Clockwork Orange upsetting, but upsetting nonetheless.

 

[Mulli]

Close Encounters at the end.

 

[schutd]

Slim Whitman, causing the Martians' heads to explode in Mars Attacks

 

[Mulli]

Gene Wilder and the Monster tapdance to "Puttin' on the Ritz" in Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein.

Yes!!!

 

[schutd]

Doo Wah Diddy in Stripes

 

[schutd]

Burn in Hell with Twisted Sister!!! in Pee Wee's Big Adventure!

 

[schutd]

Show me the way to go home in JAWS

 

[schutd]

In-a-gadda-da-vida in Michael Mann's Manhunter. That was AWESOME.

 

[Louis]

"These boots are made for walkin'" Played when we go from boot camp to Vietnam in Full Metal Jacket and the infamouse "me love you long time" scene plays out.

"Wooly bully" also from Full Metal Jacket

This exchange occurs

Animal Mother: You a photographer?
Private Joker: I'm a combat correspondent.
Animal Mother: Well you seen much combat?
Private Joker: I've seen a little on TV.
Animal Mother: You're a real comedian.
Private Joker: Well they call me the Joker.
Animal Mother: Well I got a joke for you. I'm gonna tear you a new cornholio.
Private Joker: Well pilgrim, only after you eat the peanuts out of my ****.
Animal Mother: You talk the talk. Do you walk the walk?

 

[Bada0Bing]

I thought the Nerds’ skit at the talent show in Revenge of the Nerds was pretty funny.

 

[Pariah]

Eye of the Tiger playing when Rocky is training.

(Bada, I'm disappointed I had to jump in here with this one...)