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Old 08-06-14 | 01:40 PM
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Stuck in the Middle With You - Reservoir Dogs
Don't Stop Me Now - Shaun of the Dead
G7 - Street Fighting Man Escape - Dirty Work

...uhhh Fuck the Pain Away - Lost in Translation ?
Old 08-06-14 | 03:35 PM
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Don't Stop Me Now - Shaun of the Dead
i love that song by Queen and that scene!
Old 08-06-14 | 03:57 PM
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Hallelujah and Somewhere Over the Rainbow. Both in Face/Off.
Old 08-06-14 | 05:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Michael Corvin
Kind of a cheat, IMO. That's like asking what TV show has the best theme song and you pick Wonder Years or CSI because they use the Beatles and the Who songs.
Since theme shows aren't part of the show, mainly, your example makes no sense. As far as i can tell no one puts on a record, cd , etc. when those theme songs are playing. One of the few TV theme songs that would qualify would be something like the TV theme song for The Heights, which was also played during the show by the characters.
Old 08-06-14 | 06:40 PM
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"Ride of the Valkyries" (Apocalypse Now) been mentioned yet?
Old 08-06-14 | 06:45 PM
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Since theme shows aren't part of the show, mainly, your example makes no sense. As far as i can tell no one puts on a record, cd , etc. when those theme songs are playing. One of the few TV theme songs that would qualify would be something like the TV theme song for The Heights, which was also played during the show by the characters.
All in the Family too.
Old 08-07-14 | 05:32 AM
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To pick ones that hasn't been mentioned yet: the beginning of Book of Eli where Denzel is listening to Al Green's "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" on the mp3 player.

Public Enemy's "Fight the Power" throughout Do the Right Thing
Old 08-07-14 | 06:40 AM
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I learned a new word. Fascinating stuff.
Old 08-07-14 | 02:40 PM
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Originally Posted by GatorDeb
I learned a new word. Fascinating stuff.
Agreed! I just told my wife about it and we had an interesting discussion. She immediately thought of Ferris Beuller's Day Off ("Twist and Shout") and Risky Business ("Old Time Rock and Roll"). But then she began equating "diegetic" with music that characters are performing within the movie, which isn't always the case (for example, Demi Moore playing "Unchained Melody" on the jukebox in Ghost is an example of diegetic music, even though Moore's character isn't performing along with it, just listening to it).

Then we began discussing which songs in The Sound of Music are diegetic ("Edelweiss," "Do Re Mi," "The Lonely Goatherd") and which ones are not ("Climb Every Mountain," "Sixteen Going on Seventeen").

Yes... fascinating subject!
Old 08-07-14 | 03:28 PM
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Here's my favorite:

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Old 08-07-14 | 03:37 PM
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I always thought this was called "source music"
Old 08-07-14 | 03:38 PM
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Don't remember if it was mentioned but Pulp Fiction and Uma Thurman doing Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon by Urge Overkill.
Old 08-07-14 | 03:39 PM
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Re: Best use of diegetic music in a film?

First two movies, other than GotG, that came to mind after reading the definition:

Citizen Kane had several scenes where the music was used as defined here. Kane's Celebration with the band and girls and the beach party where him and his wife are having issues.
The Fifth Element...the Opera singer and the Fighting scene.

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Old 08-07-14 | 03:41 PM
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Let's hope some academic isn't googling "diegetic music" only to stumble on this thread and giggle at his computer: "They're all wrong. [snicker,snicker] That's not what 'diegetic' means at all."

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Old 08-07-14 | 07:58 PM
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The two that comes to mind and I don't think it was mentioned are "Eres Tu" in Tommy Boy and "Hold On" in Harold and Kumar Goes To White Castle.
Old 08-07-14 | 11:46 PM
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I can't believe I'm the first one to post this. One of the most beautiful scenes in a beautiful movie.

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Old 08-08-14 | 02:51 AM
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Re: Best use of diegetic music in a film?

Speaking of musicals and their use of diegetic music, all but two of the songs in Phantom of the Paradise are diegetic as they're all performing for Swan.

I only noticed that as I just watched the recent Blu-ray Shout Factory just put out.
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American Psycho starring Christian Bale

The scene where he plays the Huey Lewis and the News song "Hip To Be Square" on his stereo.
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