5. Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3b9gOtQoq4 The Bee Gees' 70s disco classic Stayin' Alive has been used in an absurd number of films, including (but absolutly not limited to) The Bounty Hunter, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, Meet Dave, Chicken Little, Madagascar, Baby Geniuses, A Night at the Roxbury, Mars Attacks!, Swingers, Grumpier Old Men, Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult, Supercop, Honey I Blew up the Kid and Look Whos Talking. There's one very specific mental image that we call come up with when imagining this song, and that's of a slick guy with an afro, flared trousers and crazy shoes strutting down the street, exuding enormous confidence. Sure, it was funny the first fifty times a film used it, but it's just been run mercilessly into the ground by this point. Filmmakers at least appear to have realised this, as I haven't seen it in a film in quite a while.
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