Biffer Spice

Good shout with the Good The Bad and The Ugly. Possibly even better for me is the showdown at (near) the end of Once Upon A Time In The West, as the harmonica connects the music to what is actually happening on the screen. Ennio Morricone/Sergio Leone combo - :thup:

Lubricated Crisp Packet

There's a very good use of music in one scene in The Departed where they show a number of murder scenes back to back. Can't find linkage of it on youtube.

Dane

Butterfly Effect, kiddy fiddling firework scene or dog in the bag

Brazil, angel scenes or Twin Peaks dreams.

xnellyrx

28 days later is the obvious one.

Tanman007

Good, very good. And Requiem For A Dream is a damn good shout, cheers. </BLOCKQUOTE>
Scene D'amour , this piece in particular I used to listen to on repeat. Very beautiful piece of music. I have the original recording on mp3 format as well.

I was thinking for the tension bit, the theme to Psycho is pretty hard to beat.

ceefax the cat

And then there's Jaws, if we're trotting off the classics.

My favourite bits of soundtracking are the more surreal connections with the film. For a scene of intense violence, for example, it seems logical to have violent-sounding music, with lots of dynamics. Often though, you can achieve a more powerful emotional effect by juxtaposing the violence with something else. That scene in The Battleship Potemkin is a classic example. Hell breaking loose on screen, but an eerily calm soundtrack. Whether it's still a surreal connection with the action in slow-mo is debatable though.

McD

Childhood: The chicken beheading in Haneke's Cache.

Desolate: The final few moments of Safe. Just the bleakness of Julianne Moore's withdrawal into abject isolation. See also Samantha Morton at the end of Code 46.

Powerful: The swirling music that accompanies the girls dancing at the summit just as we lose them in The Picnic at Hanging Rock. The mystery, the sensuality, the primal nature of the situation, it's intoxicating.

Surreal: Screaming at me Coen brothers. The supermarket hold-up in Raising Arizona? The bowling bit in The Big Lebowski?

Tension: Famous tennis match sequence in Strangers on a Train where the crowd follows the ball, left to right, right to left, but the killer's stare remains fixed on his target. Aped by Scorcese in Cape Fear. Would be ideal for this? Very cinematic, no dialogue.

If any of these interest you, I can get clips.

Geoff

surreal - fire walk with me. or Brazil. or anything with Terry gilliam's input.

E

i liked the use of Roger Waters' 'Perfect Sense' at the end of Private

ceefax the cat

All good so far, keep em coming.....