rocketpig on 06 August 2008
"Watch Goodfellas, for example, or the first 10 minutes of his (otherwise failed) Gangs of New York and you realize that Martin Scorsese (age 65) is one of the few remaining directors who knows how to use music and sound in a subtle way."
The use of "Comfortably Numb" in The Departed during the sex scene was friggin' brilliant. Love that scene.
Two other directors who use music brilliantly are PT Anderson (I've watched the "Goodbye Stranger" steadycam scene in Magnolia at least 100 times... sigh...) and Richard Kelly (the Justin Timberlake "All These Things That I've Done" scene in Southland Tales is so just much damned fun that I fell in love with it instantly).
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