YSF spotting? Let's see if I can up the ante.
Everyone here read Pulitzer prize winning novel
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt? Nah, me neither. It's only 784 pages long so maybe I'll knock it off one evening.
It's been made
into a film this year starring Ansel Elgort (Baby from Baby Driver - which was a blast BTW), Nicole Kidman, Luke Wilson, Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things), Jeffrey Wright, Sarah Paulson and more. Cinematography by Roger Deakins - the best in the business.
The reviews have been harsh. Having not read the book, I don't know why. Some say it's over-long at 2.5 hours, but how was a 784 page book gonna be short? Anyway watching the film saved me reading the book, and I quite liked it!
At about 58 minutes our protagonist hops off the bus (as a kid) and he talks to a new school friend; a song fades up beneath them as they walk home: It's the intro to YSF. The whole intro - from the start. Then when the vox come in, the dialogue fades down, so we get Bernard's vox at full volume for the first verse.
The track fades down at around 1.49 into the song (using timing on the video below), it fades completely circa 2.10.
Then two minutes later, with some clever sound editing the track reappears. Not a fade-up but a re-start 4.04 mins into the song, and somehow it doesn't sound abrupt. It plays to about 4.21 and then (seamlessly) jumps back to the Hooky section at 1.42. It plays through to circa 1.58 when it fades it out for the final time.
Like the teenage me who didn't know that Elegia (or TLU) was in Pretty In Pink until I heard it in the cinema, I was kinda thrilled to hear YSF playing at full volume in a Hollywood film.
I really should have grown out of this level of fanboy-ism by now.
Edited by user 23 November 2019 12:28:19(UTC)
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