What are some movies with a consistent tune?

Submitted by baklavabaddie t3_1222sdq in movies

You know those movies with like a little tune all throughout them, I can only think of taxi driver and breakfast at Tiffany’s but I assume there would be more as it’s such a cool concept. I think it adds a really nice coherentness to a movie which I like. So movie lovers of reddit I was wondering if you can think of any movies that have a little tune?

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BEE_REAL_ t1_jdoilx1 wrote

> I can only think of taxi driver

This is a thing for most other movies Bernard Herrmann did the score for too

The Long Goodbye's score is literally just one song played in different arrangements

Stalker and L'Intrus are a couple other movies I can think of with basically just one tune as the score, sometimes shifting a little bit or adding/subtracting

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billyhbaienes t1_jdojh8q wrote

The Batman with that Nirvana song littered through out

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Earguy t1_jdok51l wrote

Live and Let Die used a feature of the theme song throughout the movie.

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PNWkinkqueens t1_jdolqws wrote

Inception uses Édith Piaf’s “Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien” at varying speeds—depending on which level of dream you’re on.

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cbbuntz t1_jdom6wz wrote

Between Two Ferns has the same theme as Taxi Driver

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LittleBullBoy t1_jdomg8z wrote

True Romance and Badlands have a great little steel drum tune all throughout

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Flaky-Roll-4900 t1_jdompct wrote

The whistle song from Kill Bill 2 used to get stuck in my head for days.

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Stratobastardo34 t1_jdomr5z wrote

Are you talking about the movie's score or a song that's played in the movie? There's literally hundreds of movies with great scores. Some iconic scores would be The Godfather, Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, Blade Runner, and Lawrence of Arabia.

If you're looking for examples of movies with specific songs, then I would suggest Fritz Lang's M, Casablanca, pretty much any Quentin Tarantino movie but more specifically Jackie Brown, Pulp Fiction and Death Proof, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Goodfellas. There are a lot more, but these are what I can think of right now.

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andro_7 t1_jdoq7hr wrote

Not a movie but Twin Peaks had a constant loop

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Squibbles t1_jdotv0j wrote

Jail Bait from Ed Wood has this guitar playing in the background practically through the entire movie

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JellyRollGeorge t1_jdoude6 wrote

It's mildly obscure but if you can overcome the one inch barrier then the Italian movie Leolo has Tom Waits' Cold Cold Ground playing throughout and is a decent film.

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ZorroMeansFox t1_jdoum9f wrote

Here's something famous for doing just that:

Robert Altman's neo-noir film The Long Goodbye.

Every single piece of music in the entire film (except for the End Titles' Music, which features a satiric use of Hooray for Hollywood) is a variation of the same piece of music: "The Long Goodbye" --composed by John Williams! (It's one of his most unique scores.)

But the thing is, each time it's heard (mostly diegetically) it's re-composed for an entirely different genre, in a way which is in tune with the scene: There's a Blue's Version, a Piano Bar Version, a Jazz version, a Mariachi Band version, composed as music for a Funeral procession; it's hummed by a thug, heard as Muzak in a grocery story, and used in many other ways. The opening notes of its melody are even used as the doorbell chime at the home of the movie's femme fatale.

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WhereIsThatElephant t1_jdow49t wrote

Taxi Driver is the least consistent movie I have seen

Try:

The Shining (1980)

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g_st_lt t1_jdp0k4a wrote

Replying to baklavabaddie (#2,362,645)

Written and directed by the writer of Taxi Driver, too. I refrained from mentioning that originally because of course the writer didn't make soundtrack decisions on Taxi Driver. But if you might watch it that might be relevant.

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Re_LE_Vant_UN t1_jdp2wjw wrote

Dead Man (1995)

Neil Young does the entire soundtrack on electric guitar, with a lot of reverb. It often is jarring and adds to the surreal nature of the film, which is ostensibly a Western at first glance. Johnny Depp stars.

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woodsboro96 t1_jdp3d6z wrote

Close Encounters of the Third Kind is the first one that comes to mind for me… one of my favorite films. The five note melody that the aliens use to communicate with humans is both diegetic in the world of the film and mixed beautifully into the John Williams score. It probably would’ve won an Oscar if John Williams hadn’t written the Oscar-winning score for Star Wars that same year.

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