A spoddy thing I occasionally do is make soundtracks; ie my soundtrack to an imagined David Lynch film, my alternative Wicker Man soundtrack etc and it occurs to me that it could be fun to do it here.
So fellow Afterworders, Tarantino has a new film out, Kill The Inglourious Hateful Reservoir Eight From Dusk Till Dawn, about a bunch of kung fu bounty hunters chasing down runaway nazis in Latin America.
I don’t think this is main theme material, but in the crucial bar room brawl with vampires scene, it certainly plays…
Following the shoot out which leaves most of the men dead our heroine emerges from her hiding place and makes off with the loot. As the close up on the slight smile on her face pulls out to reveal that she is driving a Porsche Spyder, and Lee and Nancy start to play as she roars off along a narrow road along the side of a mountain.
Then a fully pimped up car pulls alongside our heroine. Knives come out of the wheels Boadicea style! A nazi pimp is trying to push her off the side of the mountain!
A hammer fight ensues!
Some bikers in togas arrive and break up the fight…
Our heroine spots a toga-ed up biker she likes. She removes her shoes. The camera lingers lovingly on her feet for a while
She drop-kicks a hand grenade into the crowd! They think it’s all over? IT IS NOW!
One for the opening titles.
Maybe a 1970s US Sitcom-type montage of all the main characters doing whatever and then turning to the camera and grinning inanely
This one is ideal, because Tarantino movies need to include a musical number that the cooler-than-thou crowd wouldn’t have touched for being commercial slop, but will now claim they liked all along, but just never saw the need to mention to anybody till now.
QT revives the acting career of Cher and has her cover this song in a Motown style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXt723fN1ss
Background music for the lurrve scene:
The Chakachas – Jungle Fever
Under the torture scene, during which one man loses his gonads (off screen, on scream), we can hear this pleasant ditty:
http://youtu.be/CAORTc5dj3Y
Chilling.
I have the main opening tune! At last!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYYCmxqI7mQ
Closing titles. Our heroine strolls happily away, tossing her vast armoury of killing items into a nearby babbling brook, one by one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lpr-cGuMqGA
This is brilliant. Thank you. Never heard this and it’s marvelous.
Bobbie Gentry was not only a total babe but a great singer and songwriter.
Retired now but still around.
Guitar fans may like to note that the tiny guitar Bobbie is playing on the cover of that
LP above is a Martin 5-18.
The 5-18 was the smallest guitar in the Martin range and was marketed as “Junior, or three-quarter sizes fine for children; easy to hold and to play.”
The guitar first appeared in 1898 and last appeared in the Martin catalogues 1989. It was popularised by Marty Robbins who had a signature model released in 2006.
Thank you, carry on.
Talking of David Lynch, his new film, Mulholland Peaks Empire Highway shot entirely on 8mm videotape is out soon. The plot revolves around a mysterious film producer Zack Truman who disappears after ordering cherry pie in a diner in the Hollywood Hills, only to reappear several years beforehand as a garage mechanic posing as a gangland boss with a penchant for wearing an oxygen mask. Special Agent Bart Tremayne consults his lucky rabbit’s foot and traces Truman to an abandoned railroad car after a videotape of Truman’s empty house is found in a field. An enigmatic stranger dressed in a white suit speaks backwards and reveals that Truman and Tremayne are in fact two personality traits of the same person. The film ends with a lesbian scene that bears no relation to any of the rest of the plot. *SPOILER ALERT*