BEST SONGS

“Waiting for the Miracle” by Leonard Cohen

– “Sweet Jane” by Cowboy Junkies

from NATURAL BORN KILLERS directed by Oliver Stone

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Genre: Thriller- Crime- Drama

Oliver Stone’s “Natural Born Killers” might have played even more like a demented nightmare if it hadn’t been for the O.J. Simpson case. Maybe Stone meant his movie as a warning about where we were headed, but because of Simpson it plays as an indictment of the way we are now. We are becoming a society more interested in crime and scandal than in anything else – more than in politics and the arts, certainly, and maybe even more than sports, unless crime is our new national sport.

Rating: 7.25/10

The full Natural Born Killers’ soundtrack is very good:

  1. Leonard Cohen – “Waiting for the Miracle” (Edit)
  2. L7 – “Shitlist”
  3. Dan Zanes – “Moon over Greene County” (Edit)
  4. Patti Smith – “Rock N Roll Nigger” (Flood Remix)
  5. Cowboy Junkies – “Sweet Jane” (Edit)
  6. Bob Dylan – “You Belong to Me”
  7. Duane Eddy – “The Trembler” (Edit)
  8. Nine Inch Nails – “Burn”
  9. “Route 666” 
  10. “Totally Hot”
  11. Patsy Cline – “Back in Baby’s Arms”
  12. Peter Gabriel And Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan – “Taboo” (Edit)
  13. “Sex Is Violent
  14. A.O.S. – “History (Repeats Itself)” (Edit)
  15. Nine Inch Nails – “Something I Can Never Have”
  16. Russel Means – “I Will Take You Home”
  17. The Hollywood Persuaders – “Drums a Go-Go” (Edit)
  18. “Hungry Ants”
  19. Dr. Dre – “The Day the Niggaz Took Over”
  20. Juliette Lewis – “Born Bad”
  21. Sergio Cervetti – “Fall of the Rebel Angels” (Edit)
  22. Lard – “Forkboy”
  23. “Batonga In Batongaville”
  24. Nine Inch Nails – “A Warm Place” (Edit)
  25. “Allah, Mohammed, Char, Yaar”
  26. Leonard Cohen – “The Future” (Edit)
  27. Tha Dogg Pound – “What Would U Do?”

BEST SCENE EVER # 42

“8th and final rule: if this is you first night at fight club, you have to fight!”

– FIGHT CLUB directed by David Fincher

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Genre : Thriller- Crime- Drama

Fight Club is a David Fincher’s movie released in 1999 based on the novel of the same name written by Chuck Palahniuk. Norton plays the unnamed protagonist, an « everyman » who is discontented with his white-collar job. He forms a “fight club” with soap maker Tyler Durden, played by Pitt, and they are joined by men who also want to fight recreationally. The film’s narrator attends support groups of all kinds as a way to “experience” something within his unfeeling, commercial existence.

Fincher intended Fight Club’s violence to serve as a metaphor for the conflict between a generation of young people and the value system of advertising.

Rating : 9/10

BEST SCENE EVER # 41

– AMERICAN GANGSTER directed by Ridley Scott starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe

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Genre : Thriller- Crime- Drama

Director Ridley Scott spins this yarn concerning a Harlem drug kingpin (Denzel Washington) who smuggles heroin into the country by hiding it in the bodies of U.S. soldiers killed during battle in Vietnam. 

Nobody used to notice Frank Lucas, the quiet driver for one of the inner city’s leading black crime bosses. But when his boss suddenly dies, Frank exploits the opening in the power structure to build his own empire and create his own version of the American Dream.

Rating : 7.5/10

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BEST SCENE EVER # 40

– THE EXORCIST directed by William Friedkin

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Genre : Horror

The Exorcist is a 1973 American horror film directed by William Friedkin, adapted by Willima Peter Blatty from his 1971 novel of the same name the 1949 exorcism case of Roland Doe,deals with the demonic possession of a 12-year-old girl and her mother’s desperate attempts to win back her child through an exorcism conducted by two priests.

Rating : 7.5/10