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audiclub
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OK, there is a thread about the best, now how about the worst?
I nominate: Beast With a Million Eyes, an appallingly bad film which surely is one of the worst ever made. I had seen it in the early 60's, when even at an age of around 12, and being used to B-grade sci-fi movies, I could tell this was a real dog. AMC (American Movie 'Classics'??) ran this last year for reasons known only to themselves; and the movie was indeed as bad as I remembered.
Oh yes, the music: the Scherzo from Shostakovich's 10th Symphony (in the titles), Stravinsky's Firebird, and some others (I don't recall what at the moment and I'm not going to watch again to find out)
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Grogs1
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How about the Mozart Requiem in 'Elizabeth'?
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LucaGrella
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'Matthew B. Tepper (posts from uswest.net are forged)' wrote:
Didn't that use Nimrod from the Enigma Variations too? Mozart is anachronistic, but using Elgar like that is just plain wrong.
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ManBearPig
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The worst coming to mind right now would be Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake as title music in DRACULA (the 1931 version.... though they weren't very experienced about the use of music back in those days). But I'm sure there must be even worse examples.
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audiclub
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I think the Requiem in Elizabeth is not Mozart's even though it sounded similar. I'll double check!
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Dom
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Absolutely. And a close second: the Enigma variations in Elizabeth.
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Orion
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Oh well, too bad. I was going to say that some of John Williams' faux Prokofiev for the Star Wars movies is better than the model (unlike his faux Rachmaninov or faux Respighi or faux whatever else).
Tony Movshon
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stevo_jimmy
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The climax of 'The Pianist,' which has Szpilman playing the Chopin G minor Ballade to a Nazi in a piano left in a demolished home, is ruined by a conspicuous cut. What idiots!
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ManBearPig
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Sorry Mr Tepper my mistake. Indeed it's Mozart's Requiem.
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Jiggs
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How about Stockhausen's 'Hymnen' in that 1970s Australian film 'Walkabout'...?
mark stratford
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quickcup
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I'm missing something here. Aside from the anachronism, what's wrong with using Mozart's Requiem and Nimrod in this film? I like the film.
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