10 Movies Inspired By Things NOBODY Expected
2. The Metallica Song "One" - Sinners
Ryan Coogler's incredible recent vampire film Sinners is undeniably indebted to musical traditions of decades, even centuries past, but did even a single one of us expect it to be heavily influenced by Metallica?
In an interview with The Detroit News to promote the film, Coogler revealed that Metallica's legendary 1989 opus "One" was instrumental in defining the film's structure. Coogler said:
"I wanted it to have the contrast, variation and the inevitability of a great Metallica song, like 'One.' It starts off with almost like an easy listening solo, you know what I'm saying? And then it just goes bat s**t insane, in a way you could have never seen coming - and at the same time, it felt like it was going there all along... The movie's basically that."
While Sinners wears many of its musical inspirations on its sleeve, who could've ever predicted that Metallica would be responsible for dictating the narrative's ebb and flow?