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06 February 2008

Kinda Kubrickian campaign clip? (SLYT/AskMecha combo platter) →[More:]
I'm not posting this due to any interest in the merits of McCain's candicacy, etc., etc. Instead, I find it hilarious in a way that reminds me of Being There and Dr. Strangelove at once. The way he keeps wandering out of frame during the "Bomb Iran" remarks is truly funny to me.

One thing I'd like to know, though, is if anyone recognizes the music used in the clip. It sounds like something Kubrick would've used, but I can't place a name to the piece. What is it? Was it anything he did use in a film?

(Yes, I know about that clip, too.)

post by: trondant at: 00:37 | 8 comments

Shit, shoulda been a more inside. Sorry about that.

posted by trondant 06 February | 00:38

Trondant!

Hi!

I have no answers to your questions. I just haven't seen you in a while.

posted by occhiblu 06 February | 00:39

I didn't see that clip, your last link, so thanks. Man I loved that film, and George C Scott was amazing in it, and certainly deserved an Oscar for that performance. And, no, I don't know what the music is.

"You can't fight in here, this is a war room".

posted by eekacat 06 February | 01:09

That music is actually part of Beethoven's Ode to Joy.

Kubrick used a lot of Beethoven in Clockwork Orange, so that might be your connection.

posted by bunnyfire 06 February | 06:53

Yeah, that's definitely from A Clockwork Orange. The exact scene escapes me at the moment, but it'll come to me. (Maybe the tracking shot as Alex walks through the record store?)

posted by Atom Eyes 06 February | 10:51

Thanks. Part of what was confusing me was whether the music had in fact been in something of his. I'll track it down ;)

posted by trondant 06 February | 11:47

Yes, the music is the intro to Ode to Joy, from Ludwig Van's glorious Ninth. Slooshy, my droogiewoogs.

posted by pieisexactlythree 06 February | 14:05

technically, it's the Turkish March from the Ninth -- that style was insanely popular for a while, from Haydn to Gluck, so many great composers fucked around with that theme. and to add another technicality, you have four soloists in the fourth movement of Beethoven's Ninth, and the tenor is the one accompanied by the Turkish March.

the version used in the video is almost as bad as McCain's ideas, by the way.

posted by matteo 07 February | 11:10

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