27 of the Best Needle Drops in Movie History

Movies might seem like a primarily visual medium, but really, they’re a multimedia experience. We may not have the touch, smell and taste components down yet, but sound is inarguably a crucial element of a movie. Hell, there’s an entire genre of cinematic storytelling performed entirely through song. That’s not what we’re here to talk about today, though, because even a movie that’s not a musical can pair a song with a scene in such a way that’s a thousand times more meaningful than each would be separately.

In fact, Redditor Classic_Car4776 was explicitly not asking about “musicals or scores” but “more along the lines of ‘Ride of the Valkyries’ and the helicopters in Apocalypse Now or (the) ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ sing-along in Wayne’s World or opening credit sequences like in Skyfall” when they asked r/Movies, “What song and scene are perfect together? Where you can’t imagine the scene without it or the scene with another song?”