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Originally Posted by pepper_green
I re-watched HEAT and The DEPARTED. seen both numerous times.
HEAT is slow paced 90's crime drama. The Departed was directed by Martin "gimme shelter" Scorsese. i love the intro to "gimme shelter". could you repeat it again? that other movie your directing? could u use "gimme shelter"?
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Wait... Huh? I can't read the message in your brain's Alphebet Soup this time around.
Are you:
a.) Giving Scorsese shit for using a Stones song in The Departed, a movie that came out 2 years before his Rolling Stones doc (which was called "Shine A Light," not "Gimme Shelter") because you think it's shameless self-cross-promotion?
Or
b.) Under the impression that that one drama about teen pregnancy or whatever that
is called Gimme Shelter is a Marty joint? (It's not. Neither is the Altamont film from 1970.)
Or
c.) Just a really big fan of the song, and like hearing it in the movie?
Or
d.) Saying it's lame to use the song in a move... perhaps because it's been used in so, so many?
Not sure what to say if
a or
b is the case.
If it's
c, then ... well, who can blame you really? It's a great song, one that is perhaps SO great, and SO linked to the era in which in was made, that it's almost
better as a soundtrack joint than it is as a Stones track (kind of like CCR's "Fortunate Son"). It's just tremendous.
If
d is yr poison, then, to be fair, Scorsese has a long history of using anthemic rock tracks in his films. The Departed actually forced me to adapt my position on the Dropkick Murphys, such that now, when I talk about how awful they are, I have to make allowances for the excellence of "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" in the context of that film. Talk about a song that works better with a movie than on its own. Yowza. (They are a really boring, awful band though.)
If you'll recall, Marty also used "Gimme Shelter" (and "Monkey Man," (!) which is awesome, and a surprisingly deep cut for such a big film) in GoodFellas. Oh, and he found room for both live AND studio versions of the song ("Gimme Shelter") in Casino, which also features "Satisfaction" and another one I can't immediately think of.
Anyhoo, I've long since lost sight of whatever it was that you were saying, or I was responding to when I first started this post, so I hope you remember. Mentioning "Gimme Shelter" got me in the mood to listen to Stones records and I'm taking a break from crate-digging to find my LP of Let it Bleed to finish this post up.
Yep. I have major, MAJOR attention issues.