10 Mind Blowing Uses Of Music In Movies

By Shaun Munro /

8. "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon" - Pulp Fiction

One of the most distinctive aspects of every Quentin Tarantino film is the soundtrack, and Pulp Fiction is certainly no exception. QT usually picks music from his own record collection, and reportedly first heard Urge Overkill's cover of Neil Diamond's Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon in a small record shop while visiting Amsterdam. It's just as well, then, because the result is one of the most iconic scenes in Tarantino's entire filmography, in large part thanks to the tune, as Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman) dances around to it while Vincent Vega (John Travolta) tries to talk himself into being well-behaved. There's a tremendous irony that the song, about a girl coming of age, is juxtaposed with Mia snorting some cocaine. The song fades out just as things take a turn for the worse and Mia begins to convulse, having accidentally overdosed, which is another classic moment all by itself...