Rosemary Kill Bill To Music, page 1

Originally posted by Scorpio Shaping Flow
Music from the albums should begin just as the movie-specific music begins during the the appearance of the movie studio logo: Paramount, with piano chime, for Rosemary's Baby, and Miramax, with drum roll, for Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Vol. 2 makes use of a piano jingle). Hints as to what music is used for the synchronization are included within the movies themselves ("island nation steel" and "red light induced head-loss in back seat," etc...).

This had me a little confused. The movie-specific music for Kill Bill Vol. 1 doesn't start for a good 5 seconds or so after the Miramax drum-roll. So I'm not sure exactly where to start the album. At the beginning of the Miramax drum roll? At the end of it? At the beginning of the movie-specific music? I've tried a couple start-points and am able to see that the movie had to have been synched to the Sgt. Pepper album. Although, as you've said elsewhere, if you don't get the precise starting point you lose a lot of subtle nuances. I'm pretty sure I got the starting point right once, as I observed some crazy precisely-timed correlations that could not possibly be mere "coincidence".

Originally posted by OXmanK
Well, I did it. I tried it out. It kinda works out. Some spots are pretty dern eerie. Here is a list of what I remember.

The guitar on Sgt Pepper's kicks in right at the moment "Our feature presentation" comes on.

True indeed.

I'll have to look up the lyrics to the album and read them so I have them in my mind more, because I can't always make out all of the lyrics from just listening to them.

"Would you stand up and walk out on me..."...Bill puts one right in her head at the end of those lyrics.

And what's even more remarkable, is that after the album ends and starts over(because it should be on repeat all) and gets back to that same song and lyric again, someone catches a bullet to the head again right around the lyric of "Would you stand up and walk out on me".

Then the opening credits role as "A little help from my friends" plays.

Uma Thurman's first color close up sinks up with "girl the kaleidoscope eyes."

Getting Better begins as they exchange pleasantries with the kid and go get coffee.

And also as Scorpio Shaping Flow pointed out, the first color scene shows the Pussy Wagon as a "boat on a river". Also notice the bright colors and specifically the flowers shown at the same time The Beatles are singing about the colors of flowers.

Now here's one of the most obvious blatant correlations between the album and movie:

Right after the first fight scene that comes to its conclusion in the kitchen, just as Black Mamba pulls the knife out of Copperhead's chest and grabs a rag to wipe the blood off of it, The Beatles are singing: "She goes downstairs to the kitchen clutching her handkerchief.

Within You Without You begins as Elle is walking through the hospital.

"Space between" as they show the distance from Elle to Kiddo. (Sorry, partial lyric)

"Walls" as they split screen Kiddo and Elle. (Again, sorry for a small snippet of the lyrics...I really dont listen to that song that much)

"When I'm Sixty Four" begins as they flash Four Years Later.

The bell ring between chorus and verse on When I'm Sixty Four and her discovering the plate in her head syncs up really well.

I caught three of those. I'll have to watch again for the latter two.

Lovely Rita starts as Buck and pal make it in the room.

"In her room, I almost made it" is sung as the customer climbs on top of Kiddo.

The music to Good Morning, Good Morning starts as Kiddo slashes Buck's achille's.

"I saw the photograph." - Photo of O'Ren Ishi

"A crowd of people stood and stared" - Budd, Elle, Vernita, and O'Ren standing over her.

Again, I got three out your five right here. The "A crowd of people stood and stared" was a trip. I did catch that one obviously.

This is just a small list of what I caught. Maybe I had my timing messed up. But it was still eerie when she tapped plate as bell was ringing.

Scorpio Shaping Flow posted in another thread that Pink Floyd did two or three start-points for The Wizard of Oz.

What was really interesting, is that at the end of the movie The Beatles song that was playing, stopped at the end of the credits right at the exact second that the final Miramax logo disappeared, and moreover I allowed The Beatles album to keep playing and the next song that was playing had a cock crowing right at the exact moment that the title menu of the movie came back up, as if the Rooster was reintroducing the title. I must have began with the right starting-point that time.

I can't wait to try some other recommended synchs.

[edit on 8-7-2009 by Tamahu]