10 Mind Blowing Uses Of Music In Movies

3. "We'll Meet Again" - Dr. Strangelove

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4VlruVG81w Vera Lynn's 1939 classic We'll Meet Again found itself being enjoyed by an entirely new generation of listeners with its use at the climax of Stanley Kubrick's masterful war satire, Dr. Strangelove. At the film's darkly funny finale, it becomes painfully abundant that both sides of the war are doomed, and all they can do is to retreat into deep mineshafts and attempt to breed in order to eventually return to the surface one day. The brilliant exclamation point comes when Dr. Strangelove himself (Peter Sellers) announces that he has a plan, before suddenly stepping out of his chair and declaring, "Mein Fuhrer! I can walk!" Kubrick then suddenly cuts to the nuclear bombs detonating all over the world, signalling the end of the majority of civilisation, while Lynn's song plays out in the most ironic fashion possible. The lyrics can, of course, refer to the fact that the Americans and Soviets will meet again in warfare one day, when they've both repopulated and are ready to go to war again. Aside from its hilarity, it's also a depressing statement on human nature, one Kubrick hits home with sledgehammer force here.