Quentin used the music from this old film (well actually the old hot rod single w/ same music) on the new film "Death Proof" Part 2 of Grindhouse.
Really cool!
Did you tell LUKE..? Is THAT who you could tell??
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Yeah, I promptly blurted out "Hey, it's the theme from 'Village of the Giants' by Jack Nitzsche!" which probably cemented my geek-cred. I gotta say, Tarentino knows how to pick movie music - I always liked that version of 'Baby, It's You' (by a band named Smith, produced by Gene Pitney!)
shareHello LOL Thats what I thought after seeing the movie but after that last eve got the soundtrack from my wife as gift and this AM I said that music is from a movie about Giant Teens in a theater I saw on Creature Features as a kid in the SF Bay area I remeber them go go dancing with that music playing in the orig film LOL I guessed it and saw your post. Good call !
shareI'm watching Death Proof for the first time and instantly recognized the music. I don't deserve to live.
shareI hated that annoying music that kept playing everytime they showed them dancing. IT was just awful lol. That was one of the craziest funniest thing about the movie. THe teens are wanting to take over the adults and the way the only way they could defy them was just say "LEts Dance" and then it went on and on with them dancing lol. I was like didnt the director or the editor think this is too long of a scene. THe scene of them rolling around in the mud went on forever too.
shareThe first time I saw DEATH PROOF, I almost blew a gasket when the VOTG music started playing. Definitely one of my all-time cool movie moments (about on the same par as hearing part of the ROAD TO SALINA score in KILL BILL VOL 2). However, I much prefer the VOTG version.
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Yeah, what's with these crazy teenagers? Every ten minutes, it's like "Let's dance!" Maybe they all suffered from Restless Legs Syndrome. Or, judging by the amount of booty shaking going on, Restless Butt Syndrome.
shareActually, a day later, they had a little celebration dance at night, according to a script I saw and chronicled on my VOTG webpage.
Though during that second dance night, they really showed them being a menace. One girl ends up losing her balance and smashing into a house porch. In another home, the vibrations from their dancing causes a ceiling to cave in on a mother and her baby. The next day, there are smashed cars and twisted poles and signs like they really got raucous.
The script also made good on Fred's requests that they knock out the communications. One character takes out some of the telephone lines, and another smashes the Sheriff's car and destroys the Sheriff's offices communicators.
Though keep in mind these were only in the script: I don't have any proof that any of those were filmed. Though the opening and closing dance bits, I wonder if they could have been from that supposed second night dance.
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That's interesting. Rather than being shot and left out of the finished film, I'd say it's far more likely those scenes were never filmed in the first place. After all, shooting those sequences would have taken a hefty chunk of the movie's already strained budget. It was probably cheaper to pad out the running time with a couple more gratuitious scenes of the kids gyrating to the music of the Beau Brummels.
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Is the version from "VILLAGE OF THE GIANTS" available anywhere? I prefer it to the one in "DEATH PROOF"!
shareThe version that played in VOTG was never released.
Someone I know recorded it off the film's soundtrack, and that's probably the closest anyone will come to finding the 'VOTG version.'
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Quentin has the best taste in movies in the world.
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