Often we fail to appreciate just how important music is in enhancing the cinematic experience; a scene can boast stunning cinematography and great acting, but often it is using just the right piece of music that will nudge a scene into iconic territory, where it will never be forgotten. It's hard to imagine any of these scenes using another piece of music or, worse still, no music at all; each director or their music consultant has perfectly selected a song to give the scene the maximum level of punchiness, or humour, or indeed, heart. It was tough whittling this list down to just ten because, of course, there are so many brilliant music-driven scenes to choose from - Psycho's shower scene very nearly made the grade - but here are 10 that have connected with audiences in the most special way. Here are 10 mind blowing uses of music in movies...
10. "Nightcall" - Drive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV_3Dpw-BRY Kavinsky's brilliant synth-pop track Nightcall was the perfect way to kick off Nicolas Winding Refn's slick, ultra-cool neo-noir Drive, and only added fuel to the fire that, combined with the pink title text, the movie was basically the movie of GTA: Vice City (a game which itself was heavily indebted to the style of 1980s cinema). Watching Ryan Gosling's Driver cruise around the city is enormously enjoyable because of both Refn's stunning cinematography and the crackling score, which gives everything a very definite air of cool. The calmer, echoing mid-section of the song perfectly reflects Driver's empty life when we see him travel up to his apartment, and then, returns to liveliness once he is back out on the road. So many opening credit sequences are utterly unnecessary, but here's one that by virtue of its amazing style, feels like the film couldn't exist without it.