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1. Daryl Scroggins on August 4th, 2010 at 2:47 pm

   paul is dead

2. Rick Neece on August 4th, 2010 at 5:54 pm

   Fascinating! On reading translations of “Non, je ne regrette rien,” A new context of the film is raised in me. One I did not see. Now, I’ll have to see it again.

3. rossb on August 4th, 2010 at 9:20 pm

   Wow, I haven’t seen the movie, but that is something! the easiest scoring job ever… I wonder if copyrights might apply? it is a cool idea, and to actually do it! “scoring deadline? no problemo! I’ll just slow down one of the most famous recordings of all time!” what fun!

4. amanda mae on August 4th, 2010 at 9:30 pm

   I thought that was intentional. It struck me as intentional the first time I saw it? They play the Edith Piaf piece very slowly several times.

5. Sheila Ryan on August 5th, 2010 at 1:15 am

   When I was in school (as an oddball secular humanist at a politically conservative Catholic university), one of the friends I made (who earned his way through college as a [sexual] hustler), said that Edith Piaf sang as though she were going down on a fire hydrant.

   Now I do like Piaf, but I can kinda hear his point.

6. Robert Ledgerwood on August 5th, 2010 at 7:33 am

   I recently bought, and finally got around to watching, THX-1138. The special features had an part where Walter Murch talks about how he created the temporary soundtrack for the movie. He said he was just taking classical records, reversing them and slowing them down 400%. When they brought Lalo Schifrin in to talk about doing the actual score, they played him Murch’s version and he said, “That sounds like the kind of thing I’m working on right now, anyways.” So he just rewrote it for an orchestra and recorded it that way.

   I can’t remember the name of the piece, but if you speed up the beginning music from the movie 400% and reverse it, it’s some classical Italian piece.

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