Song association

bluto63

I was watching the trailer for The Crazies and in the trailer they use Gary Jules cover of Mad World. The song was quite fitting for the ad, however, I also strongly associate the song with Donnie Darko. What I was wondering is, do you think that if a song becomes well known to be linked with a certain film, should the song be left within that film? Should future films avoid using that piece of music? When watching the trailer, I couldn't help but think of Donnie Darko, which is surely not what the advertisers are trying to do, it's the last thing they'd want to do. Opinions?

Photi

Every time I watch Gilette Soccer Saturday, I keep seeing dirty needles poking gangrenous arms for some reason.

Homesick Alien

bluto63 wrote: »

I was watching the trailer for The Crazies and in the trailer they use Gary Jules cover of Mad World. The song was quite fitting for the ad, however, I also strongly associate the song with Donnie Darko. What I was wondering is, do you think that if a song becomes well known to be linked with a certain film, should the song be left within that film? Should future films avoid using that piece of music? When watching the trailer, I couldn't help but think of Donnie Darko, which is surely not what the advertisers are trying to do, it's the last thing they'd want to do. Opinions?

Agree 100% - in the trailer for Hero/House of the Flying Daggers (cant remember which one) they used Now We Are Free by Lisa Gerrard and Hans Zimmer, the theme from Gladiator. I'm sitting there thinking, Gladiator is such a good movie, I should watch it again sometime. The fact that I cant actually remember which movie used it on the trailer is probably evidence in itself.

krudler

I cant hear Johnny Cash's Man Comes Around without thinking of Dawn of the Dead (the 2004 one) after those brilliant opening credits

jeffreylebowski

Yeah a great movie is a bit like an ex-lover that made a big impression.
Sometimes you just have to accept that the song is forever linked to them.
Quite bittersweet at times, but ultimately kind of cool, how memory associates stuff like that.

fluke

bluto63 wrote: »

I was watching the trailer for The Crazies and in the trailer they use Gary Jules cover of Mad World. The song was quite fitting for the ad, however, I also strongly associate the song with Donnie Darko. What I was wondering is, do you think that if a song becomes well known to be linked with a certain film, should the song be left within that film? Should future films avoid using that piece of music? When watching the trailer, I couldn't help but think of Donnie Darko, which is surely not what the advertisers are trying to do, it's the last thing they'd want to do. Opinions?

I get ye! I saw the trailer a couple of day ago myself and start thinking of Donnie Darko. I know it was used for Gears of War a while back but that was only a snippet, and it was an ad for a game.

While watching the trailer for The Crazies I couldn't help but think could they not have thought of any other song for this trailer and it went on for what felt like ages! So it definitely did distract me from the original aim of the trailer!

S.M.B.

Ironically, I had never heard of this film and using Mad World in the trailer has prompted the OP to start a thread on a message board thus virally spreading the word about this upcoming film.

Job well done marketing people!!!

DazMarz

Several songs are firmly linked in my mind as "...the song from 'that movie'".

-'Miserlou' by Dick Dale and his Dell Tones will forever be known to me as 'Theme from Pulp Fiction'.

-'Little Green Bag' by George Baker Selection... Reservoir Dogs

-'Wake Up' by Rage Against The Machine... The Matrix

-'Shipping Up To Boston' by Dropkick Murphys... The Departed

-'Line Up' by Aerosmith... Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

-'Whip It' by Devo and 'Gimme Shelter' by Rolling Stones... Casino

-'American Woman' by Guess Who... American Beauty

-'Burning In The Third Degree' by Tahnee Cain and the Tryangles... The Terminator

-'You Could Be Mine' by Guns N Roses... Terminator II: Judgement Day

loads of others too, I'm sure, but these are the ones I can think of off the top of my head!

left_behind

Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)
Big Lebowski. The dude tripping