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?”
Top Gun
Office Space
Inglourious Basterds
The Matrix
Transformers
Boogie Nights
Guardians of the Galaxy
Almost Famous
The Lion King
The Big Lebowski
Goodfellas
Thor: Ragnarok
Say Anything…
Fight Club
Cruel Intentions
Trainspotting
Do the Right Thing
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Breakfast Club
Watchmen
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Donnie Darko
American Psycho
Snatch
Beetlejuice
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
