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Post by Rick Henry on Aug 4, 2007 15:14:13 GMT -5
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Post by smoothie2 on Aug 4, 2007 23:25:20 GMT -5
I first think of Calling Occupants even though the song itself is not scary might be a good choice...strange little green guys could be on their way perhaps just posing as being friendly. boy does that sound pretty corny or what...ha >:(s
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Post by Rick Henry on Aug 5, 2007 0:54:18 GMT -5
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Post by makapipi on Aug 5, 2007 14:45:26 GMT -5
My next choice was "Desparado" too. "Solitare" i could imagine in a Mel Gibson movie, the one where his family is killed, he is driving fast down the long stretch road, and the lyric "hope went up in smoke".
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Post by GoodOldDreams on Aug 5, 2007 17:28:16 GMT -5
How about using the humorous, tongue-in-cheek ditty "Intermission" for a teen-slasher type of flick where there are a series of untoward things happen in the bathroom. The layered chorus can be embellished with echos to create an ominous, forboding, almost taunting effect. Starting out with a seemingly ordinary everyday situation and turning it into a horrorific circumstance can help make the movie seem more creepy and plausible, like Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho."
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Post by Rick Henry on Aug 5, 2007 20:49:06 GMT -5
My next choice was "Desparado" too. "Solitare" i could imagine in a Mel Gibson movie, the one where his family is killed, he is driving fast down the long stretch road, and the lyric "hope went up in smoke". Yes, "Solitaire" would definitely work in that scenario. How about using the humorous, tongue-in-cheek ditty "Intermission" for a teen-slasher type of flick where there are a series of untoward things happen in the bathroom. The layered chorus can be embellished with echos to create an ominous, forboding, almost taunting effect. Starting out with a seemingly ordinary everyday situation and turning it into a horrorific circumstance can help make the movie seem more creepy and plausible, like Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho."
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Post by wisejester7 on Aug 6, 2007 11:12:32 GMT -5
Makapipi's song that started the idea for this thread was "The Uninvited Guest".
This 'ghostly' song could be played out by having a man and his mistress slowly and methodically drive the man's wife insane. A little like Dial M for Murder.
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Post by enigma on Aug 6, 2007 16:49:27 GMT -5
For some reason Ordinary Fool comes to mind the slow atmospheric mood of this song could easily be a backdrop for a horror or suspense movie.
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Post by ps11932 on Aug 6, 2007 18:09:05 GMT -5
This is a most thought provoking thread and conversation- the type of discussions I'm glad to be back with. The choices mentioned are great; I especially like "The Uninvited Guest", a very haunting song that could well chronicle the despair and possible breakdown (and revenge?) of a person. The other song that comes to mind, that actually was a movie theme, I think, is "Bless The Beasts And The Children." I haven't seen the movie but if it is true to the book, there was a definite element of fright to it because the characters (quite outcast and ridiculed) undertake a daring adventure that grows so drastic that, apart from a sort of fairy tale ending (seldom seen in reralistic literature), you know there is going to be a costly ending. One more thing- I loved the graphic submitted by Smoothie for "Calling Occupants"- with the character being pulled into the spaceship. It is a blast being around so many great artists here!
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Post by GoodOldDreams on Aug 6, 2007 20:54:24 GMT -5
"The Night Has a Thousand Eyes" could be effective in a movie about a stalker or a person with a very possessive/obsessive nature, like Mark Wahlberg in the movie "Fear" and Robert DeNiro in "Cape Fear."
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Post by Rick Henry on Aug 6, 2007 21:14:10 GMT -5
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Post by smoothie2 on Aug 6, 2007 22:16:51 GMT -5
Thank you Rick! I surely can say the same for you (that you're scary...um..oops, no not that) no you too are a through-thick-n-thin friend!
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Post by smoothie2 on Aug 6, 2007 22:36:12 GMT -5
Brilliant ideas by all and interesting thoughts. Superb!
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Post by wisejester7 on Aug 7, 2007 6:28:08 GMT -5
"Two Sides" could lend itself well to the scary movie theme. The lyrics seem to nicely set up a conflict and it wouldn't take much to put a 'scary' twist to their meaning. Of course, it ends with the elongated "Goodbye" ...
Well, there's two sides, to every situation Yes, there's two sides, two interpretations A laugh is a cry, hello means goodbye You're sayin' something baby, I don't wanna buy
Well, there's two sides to every creation You and me babe, we're no revelation Well, there's darkness in our light, and there's wrong in our right There's sorry babe, I'm workin' late tonight
Well, there's two sides, there's another side of me There's the one you think you live with, the one you never see It's never really lived, but it's never really died It's never really made it but it's tried
Well, there's two sides to every conversation But with you babe, that's no consolation Silence is golden, let me put you on hold Danglin' on your love line, baby, it's growin' old
Well, I don't know how to say it Cause I never thought I could God know I've tried so many times
But there's two sides, there's another side of me There's the one you think you live with, the one you never see It's never really lived, but it's never really died It's never really made it, but it's tried
To every creation We're no revelation One sees the wrong, and one sees the right The other side of me just caught a flight
Goodbye
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Post by Rick Henry on Aug 7, 2007 8:03:49 GMT -5
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Post by Dave on Aug 7, 2007 18:38:46 GMT -5
Well, let's look back at movies this year that have featured Carpenters songs: "Ghost Rider" and "1408", two relatively "dark" movies.
"Occupants" would have been great in "Independence Day", especially the scene where the LA residents were holding welcome signs atop the building...before the aliens incinerated them! Too bad there won't be a sequel...
"Superstar" could easily been a major component of "Misery" if anyone had thought of it...
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Post by makapipi on Aug 8, 2007 1:58:55 GMT -5
I remember when i first heard "Horizons" cd , i thought wow every song could have been used in a movie or probably was already in use. I think that may be another reason why the Carpenters music is so popular, certain songs create images in their listener's mind, even though they did not see a music video on that song. That' why this website is so wondeful, when listening to Carpenters and looking around I can imagine Karen in a movie... song "Eventide", scene; sitting in a beach chair before sunset at a beach.
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Post by Rick Henry on Aug 8, 2007 10:54:29 GMT -5
I remember when i first heard "Horizons" cd , i thought wow every song could have been used in a movie or probably was already in use. I think that may be another reason why the Carpenters music is so popular, certain songs create images in their listener's mind, even though they did not see a music video on that song. That' why this website is so wondeful, when listening to Carpenters and looking around I can imagine Karen in a movie... song "Eventide", scene; sitting in a beach chair before sunset at a beach.
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