This list could have been (and nearly was) predominantly comprised of songs that have played at the end of Wes Anderson's films. Anderson is a master at the use of licensed music in general, regardless of where in his films they appear, but no one has a keener ear for exit music than Mr. Anderson. Whether it be Van Morrison's Everyone that closes out The Royal Tenenbaums, or David Bowie's flippantly hip Queen Bitch at the end of The Life Aquatic, or Joe Dassin's irresistibly charming French tune Les Champs-Elysees that finishes The Darjeeling Limited, or particularly, the fittingly sweet swan song of The Faces' Ooh La La in Rushmore, Anderson knows how to perfectly cap his unique brand of comedy and humanism with the perfect musical cue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYZ40lDrqb0 Out of all these wonderful choices though, the one Anderson song/film pairing that makes the list is The Bobby Fuller Four's Let Her Dance and Fantastic Mr. Fox. While intellectually, some of the other choices make for more satisfying post-denouement conclusions, they simply aren't as fun as the infectious bottle-tapping rhythms supplied by The Bobby Fuller Four. Let Her Dance is the perfect incarnation of the lighter impulses of mid-1960's rock, and matched with the film's retro Claymation art style, you have a combination that defies you not to smile. As each character dances in their own unique style, surrounded by friendly supermarket confines, it is hard to recall, or even imagine, a finale filled with more pure joy than Fantastic Mr. Fox.
A film fanatic at a very young age, starting with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movies and gradually moving up to more sophisticated fare, at around the age of ten he became inexplicably obsessed with all things Oscar. With the incredibly trivial power of being able to chronologically name every Best Picture winner from memory, his lifelong goal is to see every Oscar nominated film, in every major category, in the history of the Academy Awards.
