chuckd21

So I'm always the guy who knows the answer to these, until now.

There's a scene in a movie where an a cappella version of "Amazing Grace" plays over a shootout or a massacre of some kind. I'm thinking it's a scene where someone's team or squad has been betrayed and they're being slaughtered.

Help.

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Mondo Kane

Any decade on what the movie looked like? A similiar scene played out in Poor Pretty Eddie, but that's from the 70's.

chuckd21

It's recent. Within the last 20 years I'm sure.

Draven

Do you have the right song? Is it the "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" scene from Face-Off?

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chuckd21

I'm almost positive that it's Amazing Grace. I remember seeing it and thinking it was an interesting rendition of Amazing Grace that had LONG pauses between verses. So long in fact that I would laugh when the song would start up again.

Solid Snake

Recent is such a loose term now isn't it?

Dr Mabuse

If this is the a capella version you are thinking of, it may help you track it down as this is Becky Barksdale. You could then look for film uses of it.

Groucho

Drexl

Assault on Precinct 13 (the 2005 remake)?

dugan

Fits American Gangster to a T.

Heat

Reminds me of the end of The Godfather, the baptism / assassination sequence, but nobody is singing.


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chuckd21

Blergh, it's none of these. There's no way I've imagined this, it's too vivid a memory.

dugan

Eliminate the TV series results, and you've got your possibilities.
http://www.imdb.com/search/text?real...=amazing+grace

toddly6666

I have a feeling that it's from Gangs of New York, Hoodlum, or Amistad.


Here are movies that used the song:

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Star Trek 2
Silkwood
Alice's Restaurant
Coal Miner's Daughter
Gangs of New York
True Grit
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Amistad
Hoodlum
Romeo must Die
Money Train
Collateral Damage
Beverly Hills Cop 3
Highlander 2