... The piece of violin music that accompanied the sexy woman dancing while Sean Penn watched her. This is a brief scene, about an hour or so into the movie - it is followed immediately by a scene with Jude Law getting into an elevator.
The same piece if music was used in 'Scent of a Woman,' where Al Pacino dances the tango. I can't get it out of my mind now.
Thanks.
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"Maybe I should go alone"
- Quint, Jaws.
Heh, my grandmother said the same thing...I've never seen scent of a woman.
The song is Por Una Cabeza made by Carlos Gardel in 1935(By the head of a horse (in english)).
She didn't betray me. You have know someone to call it betrayal
Ah! Cool. Thankyou very much. :)
You should see 'Scent of a Woman'. That's one of my favourite scenes in any movie: Pacino plays this ageing 'rough diamond' character, he meets this beautiful young woman in a smart cabaret room, and charms her into letting him dance a tango with her - even though he is blind and she has never danced it before!! Anyway they do it beautifully and that's the music the band plays. Wonderful scene. :))
Thanks again for the music details - I will go and buy the CD now.
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"Maybe I should go alone"
- Quint, Jaws.
Yes... it's a beautiful piece, thanks for the info.
"All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others."
The particular recording used in this movie (and also in Scent of a Woman) is from The Tango Project on Nonesuch Records.
shareAnd I've just heard it AGAIN tonight, watching yet ANOTHER movie: 'Bad Santa'. It must be more common than I thought. I bet I keep hearing it now - like it's haunting me. lol
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"Maybe I should go alone"
- Quint, Jaws.
It's called Por La Cabeza - by a head, and is by Garbel, the tango king from Argentina (1935) - very evocative isn't it - I downloaded the free sheet music later - it also featured in Scent of a Woman and Schindler's List where he is dressed up to the nines walking into a night club to begin his campaign of profiting from the nazis greed and stupidity.
BTW, the lyrics of Por una Cabeza, which seems to pertain to some sort of horse race, are totally untranslatable to me, can anyone help?
Por una cabeza
Losing by a head of a noble horse
who slackens just down the stretch
and when it comes back it seems to say:
don't forget brother,
You know, you shouldn't bet.
Losing by a head, instant violent love
of that flirtatious and cheerful woman
who, swearing with a smile
a love she's lying about,
burns in a blaze all my love.
Losing by a head
there was all that madness;
her mouth in a kiss
wipes out the sadness,
it soothes the bitterness.
Losing by a head
if she forgets me,
no matter to lose
my life a thousand times;
what to live for?
Many deceptions, loosing by a head...
I swore a thousand times not to insist again
but if a look sways me on passing by
her lips of fire, I want to kiss once more.
Enough of race tracks, no more gambling,
a photo-finish I'm not watching again,
but if a pony looks like a sure thing on Sunday,
I'll bet everything again, what can I do?
I really love this piece of music in the movie, too. Very beautiful.
You're supposed to be the leading lady in your own life, for God's sake!
"Por una cabeza" is all over the place these days. It's happened fairly often. A piece of music is heard in a popular movie, gets picked up and used in later movies, finds its way to television, and winds up behind commercials for toothpaste and male enhancement products. Maybe the ultimate in humiliation is having the piece played as supermarket musak, along with the Monkee's "I'm a Believer" and string arrangements of "It's a Long Day's Night."
It happened, for instance, with Pachelbel's "Canon" (beginning with "Ordinary People"), the aria "Nessun Dorma" ("The Killing Fields"), and now this. The choral movement from Beethoven's Ninth has been subject to this mutilation for years. (See "Die Hard.")
In sociology, this kind of thing is called "collective behavior" and is allied to crazes, fads, urban legends, rumors, and manias like pet rocks, the hula hoop, the phantom gasser of Matoon, Paul McCartney is dead, worms in the McDonald's hamburgers, pre-school porno rings, J. Edgar Hoover as a cross-dresser, and Barack Obama's non-citizenship.
Sociologists have given it a decent amount of attention but nobody's pinned down its causes or predicted the paths of development. Sometimes an idea or a thing, like "Por Una Cabeza", takes off. Sometimes, like the ubiquity of internet predators, it doesn't. Nobody knows why.