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Seriously. I cant keep count of how many movies save the best song for the end credits.
Necessary Roughness- best song on the end credits. I used to have this movie but it took a walk. Then i tried looking on youtube for it and cant find the song. It was a catchy lil' pop tune, but hey, i liked it.
Deuce Bigelow European Gigalo- end credits song by Rachel Stevens. Now, i don't know who she is, never heard of her before, but apparantly she is popular in England. But, i liked the song.
Tomorrow Never Dies- end credits song by K.D. Lang. Cant remember the song, but she really tore it up compared to the kinda anemic song that they uses for the theme song of the movie. Why use the lesser of the two? Because she is gay? Because she had been out of the more public eye for a while?
I could go on, but the Legionworld Resident Cranky Poster is sated for a few minutes.
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Filmmakers may plan it that way so that the last image/sound the audience experiences will be the most memorable one.
I'm just guessing, of course, but, having studied screenwriting, I learned that nothing happens in films by accident.
My own favorite final song in a movie is "See Me, Feel Me" by The Who in Tommy. Roger Daltrey sings it as he climbs a mountain (literally following the lyrics). It provides an uplifting conclusion to the story, which otherwise would have ended on a tragic note.
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My first thought is most people get up and leave as soon as the closing credits begin. A catchy song encourages moviegoers to stay in their seats while the credits roll.
I pretty much always stay through the credits myself, but I like reading them anyway!
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I'd agree that they probably want you to leave feeling good.
There was some Ludlum novel (Osterman Weekend?) with a character who was a film production guy and a great scene in which he complained that people missed the best part of the movie when they missed the credits.
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"Tomorrow Never Dies- end credits song by K.D. Lang. Cant remember the song, but she really tore it up compared to the kinda anemic song that they uses for the theme song of the movie. Why use the lesser of the two? Because she is gay? Because she had been out of the more public eye for a while?"
This was the example that came to my mind as soon as I saw the thread title. My impression is Sheryl Crow was considered "bigger"-- or had better "connections"-- or something. The end credits song, "Surrender" (it also included the lyrics "Tomorrow Never Dies", but I guess they couldn't have 2 songs with the SAME TITLE-- heh), I consider this one of the BEST Bond songs EVER!! Had it been at the beginning of the film, the other song would NOT have really fit or worked as well at the end. (Crow's song was about the doomed romance; Lang's was about the film's villain!) But then, I heard there was a lot of confusion behind-the-scenes on that film-- including over the title, which was originally supposed to be "Tomorrow Never LIES". (Somebody working on the film pointed out that the finished title doesn't make any sense!)
That was the 4th (and final) Bond film to have 2 separate songs between opening & end credits, a trend I liked. (Putting "The James Bond Theme" at the end is just lazy to me...) I liked "If There Was A Man" and "If you Asked Me To" (both romantic songs), but neither as much as "The Living Daylights" and "License To Kill" (the latter one has a really SCARY vocal! Go, Gladys Knight!). On the other hand, "The Experience Of Love" just SUCKS, while "Goldeneye" is FANTASTIC (yay, Tina Turner!). Looking back, I think they made a wise decision to replace Dionne Warwick's "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" with Tom Jones's "Thunderball"-- but if movies had had longer end credits back then, the Warwick song SHOULD have been over the end credits!!
The sad thing is, the terrible way they run movies on TV these days, the best part of "Tomorrow Never Dies" is NEVER SEEN or HEARD! (Just like how the single best moment in HALLOWEEN: TWENTY YEARS LATER is snipped out on tv-- the very end of the film.)
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Have you ever noticed that the second song they play during the credits is usually not as good as the first one? I'm thinking they do that to get people out of the theatres, but that's just me.
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I guess that could be. I just cant help thinking that someone out there misses the boat regularly. If you want a movie to have legs, you put the good stuff in the actual movie. Not the part that people leave in mass exodus during.
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Back when 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY used to get reissued to theatres (about every 2 years), I made a habit of always staying until "The Blue Danube" ended. The credits were about 3-4 minutes long, but that song was 8 minutes, and the only time they play the whole thing at once is at the end.
"Not the part that people leave in mass exodus during."
Which reminds me... the 1st time I saw 2001, 75% of the audience left halfway thru the "Star Gate" sequence. They couldn't take it!!! (Evidently, later audiences knew better what to expect...)
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My first thought when I saw this thread was the excellent movie "Once." The song "Once" was never performed during the whole thing, til the end! They named the movie after the end credits song. The song called "Falling Slowly" seems to be the big hit from the movie. It is performed in the body of the film. Hmm... I guess I'm contradicting this thread's title question.
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Not really. Biggest hit does not always equate with "best song". Everyone loves Black Magic Woman by Santana, but he did a "world music" album, i cant remember the name, that used a lot of what sounded to me like nordic/alps horns that i love a lot more.
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