Was watching Kermode doing a program about the run up to the Oscars and was reminded about the way that certain tracks and music scores just nail a scene in to your brain.
Two (for me) for starters .
Platoon - final scene
The Graduate - final scene
Baby Driver pretty much every scene.
Opening scene from Magnolia, One is the loneliest number.
There will be Blood
2001 A Space Odyssey.
Opening scene from Jaws
All the fight scenes from the The Matrix especially the one that goes dun, dun, d d d dun d dun d dun
Bo Rap in Wayne's World.
Grosse point blank, a collection of songs that created a nostalgic tone.
and the original star wars movies were perfectly scored IMO (even though I am not a fan of the films).
Most of them in Pulp Fiction.
Reservoir Dogs - Stuck in the Middle With You
The outrageous stupid cop scene from Three Billboards (Monsters of Folk - His Master's Voice)
The Good the Bad & The Ugly stareout
Grosse point blank.
In my head the Ultimart firefight (and subsequent shop explosion) has Live and Let Die playing loudly over it. But I just checked on YouTube and it doesn't! Excellent soundtrack, excellent film.
There will be Blood
That's a great example of music enhancing an entire film and not just a scene.
A couple of Hanz Zimmer ones stand out for me.
Sea Wall from Bladerunner 2049.
Mombassa from Inception.
I'm sure there's a scene in Bullitt where he's in an underground garage. There just this BASS noise. It's brilliant.
The dollar westerns are full of it
The Untouchables - the bit where Sean Connery's dying
This Mortal Coil in "The Lovely Bones" 😥
The opening scene of Justice League with Sigrid.
It pretty much was the high spot of the film sadly.
Drive (2011) - Opening Credits Scene - Car Chase
Closing scene of Fight Club. It's just perfect.
Donnie Darko - All of it.
On a slight tangent there must quite a lot of films that are famous/popular/well known for the music, some of the films already mentioned would apply
Jaws
Deliverance
Close Encounters
Rocky
Omen
The Untouchables – the bit where Sean Connery’s dying
Spoiler alert, FFS! 😉
Bladerunner, all of it.
Interstellar , docking scene
In my head the Ultimart firefight (and subsequent shop explosion) has Live and Let Die playing loudly over it.
I would have agreed with you, I wonder if the American and UK soundtracks were tweaked for their respective audiences. I believe that does sometimes happen (although not as much now in the world of downloaded distribution).
Deliverance - Ah yes, Ry Cooder. Absolutely brilliant - see also
"Paris, Texas".
Dead Man. Neil Young's guitar is just mesmerising.
Psycho
Would agree with Star Wars, but then there is a reason John Williams has been scoring movies for decades. Either Free Fallin or Secret Garden in Jerry Maguire spring to mind. Also AC DC's Thunder in Planes 2, gets my boys bouncing round the room.
Unchained Melody in Ghost.
Seriously though - anything by John Williams or Hans Zimmerman. I heard the opening bit to Star Wars on the radio the other day and the hairs stood up on the back of my neck - it still gets me every time.
The Adagietto from Mahler's 5th Symphony - "Death in Venice".
Beethoven's 9th Symphony - "A Clockwork Orange".
The Man in Me (Bob Dylan), Dead Flowers (Townes van Zandt) - "The Big Lebowski" (but not the Eagles man).
Interstellar , docking scene
I’d say all of it, from the very moment it starts right to the end credits.
The fight scene in The Fifth Element while the Diva sings (3.10 mins in).
Good call with Bladerunner 2049 it merges perfectly throughout almost as if it was part of the sound effects. Has to be watched at loud, very loud.
Drive (2011) – Opening Credits Scene – Car Chase
Awesome soundtrack, very good film too.
For me, a film that was utter gash, and completely made by the soundtrack - Highlander.
pretty much all films are enhanced by music, question is whether you remember it or not. I'd struggle to think of a film with rubbish music 🙂 anyway
Psycho
All of Cinema Paridiso
Bit gory warning...
lust for life in Trainspotting
Tron Legacy - All of it.
Bit of a Clint Mansell fan here, stemming from this...
The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
As mentioned above, Kavinsky - Nightcall
