I recently finished watching Clannad After Story and noticed that the credits music seemed so out of place. Most of the episodes ended on a really sad note and then, BAM, happy music. This completely broke my immersion every time so much so that I tried to stop the stream before it came on.
So can anyone else think of any music that seems out of place in whatever it was in, be it movies, games or whatever.
I always thought the song playing over the credits at the end of The Omega Man was a little out of place. I know he got the cure to the other survivors but the last shot is Heston bleeding to death in a fountain with a spear sticking through his chest.
Lots of anime have out of place music for their opening/ending credits songs. And not just in the sense of "Oh, something bad just happened at the end of the episode, this happy ending theme music is jarring!" Lots of times the music doesn't even coincide with the theme of the show. Its like they just pulled some random song off the radio and slapped it on the end of their show.
I may be used to it now, but it still bugs the crap out of me.
About 80% of songs in movie credits nowadays are out of place. Seriously, who the hell thought a lounge singer was a good idea for Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers?
Also, all of the Breaking Benjamin, Incubus and Hoobastank tracks in Halo 2. Absolutely killed the immersion factor for me.
The protagonists are trying to escape as the villain's hi-tech fortress is exploding in a massive spectacle of destruction, with blazing fireballs, twisted metal and burning debris flying everywhere.
The protagonists are trying to escape as the villain's hi-tech fortress is exploding in a massive spectacle of destruction, with blazing fireballs, twisted metal and burning debris flying everywhere.
The protagonists are trying to escape as the villain's hi-tech fortress is exploding in a massive spectacle of destruction, with blazing fireballs, twisted metal and burning debris flying everywhere.
I will sing Metropolis' praises, because it's an amazing movie and it was my first dvd I ever owned. The Song is supposed to signify the love between Tima and Kenichi, and it's pitch perfect for that reason alone. It's not the destruction of the Ziggurat that we care about, but the love between a young boy who cared for a machine, and a machine who might have remembered him.
It's perfect for the movie. You really couldn't have put anything else into the movie, really. No other song would have worked.
Probably the Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel in Watchmen. Out of the whole movie, I loved Hallelujah, I loved All Along the Watchtower, I loved Prophecies (Dr. Manhattan's Theme), and while I did not hate "Sounds of Silence", it was my least favorite out of all the songs in the movie.
There was a movie in my old health class that was shown that dealt with teen pregnancies. It was displayed like a serious theatrical film but the music in certain spots made it seem more awkward for the actors then it should have been. For instance the couple gets in a fight over the baby and the father leaves but after he starts up the car "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Tears for Fears starts blaring from the radio.
Watch the trailer if you haven't seen repo, then watch the 2nd vid
17 is a punk song, and is really out of place in the rest of Repo, which is all rock opera stuff. Admittedly it was written as a punk song and intended to be out of place
Most of the music for Deadrising 2. Honestly, I'm a big fan of Celldweller and Blue Stahli, but the music simply didn't go with the atmosphere or boss fights.
This is probably moreso food for thought than an outright example, but some people are known to deliberately have music which is "out-of-place" in their works. I'm not sure if there's an formal name for it, but TV Tropes refers to this as "Soundtrack Dissonance" [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SoundtrackDissonance]. Used incorrectly, it will make the viewer scratch their head and wonder why. Used correctly, however? It's jarring, providing such a strong contrast to the imagery onscreen... and yet it's so ironically fitting at the same time.
Stanley Kubrick was quite fond of using this, with the final scene of Dr. Strangelove [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gb0mxcpPOU&feature=related] already having been mentioned.
Several examples can also been seen in the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion, with one of the most prominent examples being the scene where the term "Mind Rape" [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MindRape] originates from.
The music being played during this scene is "Hallelujah Chorus", and it couldn't be more appropriate. The attacking entities of series are referred to as "Angels" after all, and this particular one fits the conventional description most accurately; it's a brightly glowing winged creature, and it's form of attack takes on the appearance of light shining down upon it's target.
There are other examples as well, the "Ode to Joy" shows up at the end of the series when the end of the world could very well happen. NGE isn't exactly original for this use, as the finale of Beethoven's 9th symphony frequently gets this treatment. And finally, there's "Komm Susser Todd" [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEq8wa1Oydc] from the movie: The End of Evangelion. A curiously piece of music which demonstrates Lyrical Dissonance [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LyricalDissonance]; the lyricals are creepily depressing, talking about what appears to be suicide but still very upbeat the whole time (some have noted it's vaguely similar to "Hey Jude" by The Beatles). The scene where it plays?
The end of the world.
Anyhow, the use of music which doesn't fit the mood of the scene can be done in a way that it actually compliments the imagery very well. The most common and probably best examples are when the scene is NOT meant to sit well with the viewer, playing (conventionally) fitting music would make it all feel too natural. By playing something very different (yet vaguely appropriate), you throw the viewer off to drive home the point that the events & imagery onscreen is very wrong.
The protagonists are trying to escape as the villain's hi-tech fortress is exploding in a massive spectacle of destruction, with blazing fireballs, twisted metal and burning debris flying everywhere.
The music at the beginning of Shutter Island, as they drive up towards the asylum. This AWFUL, heavy-handed, clichéd horror-movie soundtrack piece, so distractingly loud and awful that I couldn't even focus on what the characters were saying...
...and then they arrive, it disappears and the rest of the movie sound track is incredible; sparse prepared piano, etc. I loved it. I still wonder how much of that flick was Scorsese being slightly tongue-in-cheek
Victory Gundam,s op is all upbeat and very happy in tone the show however... well let,s say the guy working on it isn't called Kill,em all Tomino for nothing.
Gundam 0083 has a scene were two guys work on a space machine and they play some kind of love song it,s pretty funny and homo-erotic at the same time.
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