Why make a soundtrack when it's the same old stuff anyway?
Something's been on my mind lately and, lacking any other material to post, might as well throw it out to both our readers:
What is the most over-used music in film?
I'm thinking specifics here, not the every-time-something-happens-in-Australia-cue-the-didgeridoo type of observation, or the swelling-string-section-in-each-cloying-love-scene type.
For my money, it would have to be everything from The Nutcracker, with second place split between James Brown's Papa's Got a Brand New Bag and I Got You.
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The love-death theme from
The love-death theme from "Tristan und Isolde" is pretty overused, if you ask me. More than just being a "swelling-string-in-cloying-love-scene" thing, it's a very specific swelling string that gets used over and over and over, kind of the musical equivalent of the Wilhelm scream (AAUGH!)
Ditto Parliament's "Flash Light," which is the default Black Music Of Choice when a project is too broke or lazy to license something more creative. I would have to make the case that Flash Light gets the nod just ahead of James Brown.
You hear Booker T. and the MG's "Green Onions" all over the place, too. Dusty road. Cadillac. Kevin Costner in shades. Green. Onions.
It's not so much used in
It's not so much used in movies, but Orff's Camina Buruna choral thing is used in lots of movie trailers - especially action flicks. Commercials, too.
The only movie that actually used it that I remember was Jackass.
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Thinking "Excalibur" here. But "Jackass" made better use of it, I think.