9 Perfectly Innocent Pop Songs Forever Ruined By Movie Violence

By Dan Wakefield /

9. Layer Cake (2004)

The song: ''Ordinary World'' by Duran Duran In Matthew Vaughn's London gangster debut, our unnamed protagonist (Daniel Craig) and his associate, Morty (George Harris), bump into familiar face Freddie Hurst (Ivan Kaye) down the local caff. Turns out they have previous. For while the pair are happy to sit by him and watch him wolf down his breakfast, Freddie's the reason Morty's spent a decade a behind bars. Freddie looks a state but he seems to have moved on; even having the cheek to ask Morty to lend him a fiver. ''Let's make it ten," he replies. In of the finest uses of diegetic music (something that'll spring up several times in this list), the radio plays the above Eighties song as Morty smashes Freddie's empty plate into his face before throwing him to the floor. Of course, the song has been playing since the start of the scene -with its lyric ''No, I won't cry for yesterday'' here given an ironic edge- but it's only really now that we're paying attention. As Morty hits, kicks and headbutts his way to a long-awaited revenge, James Bond can only walk away in disgust. The camera, however, chooses to stay put; bringing us to Freddie's POV, where the tip of Morty's shoe takes up most of the screen. The music swells and Morty turns his back - only to return with a boiling kettle. It's enough to put you off your cuppa.