{"id":2347,"date":"2004-10-19T14:56:26","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T19:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2004\/10\/19\/movie-fun-music-in-non-musicals\/"},"modified":"2023-10-12T09:28:12","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T14:28:12","slug":"movie-fun-music-in-non-musicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2004\/10\/19\/movie-fun-music-in-non-musicals\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Fun: Music in Non-Musicals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finished watching <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0337563\/\">13 Going On 30<\/a><\/em> today during my <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">torture<\/span> treadmill session. Cute movie&#8230; serious lapses in plot (duh)&#8230; Jennifer Garner is a revelation. Anyway, my favorite scene in the movie was the <em>Thriller<\/em>\u00a0dance at the magazine&#8217;s party. I&#8217;m a sucker for the interjection of such scenes in movies that are not musicals, especially if they&#8217;re unusual or unexpected.<\/p>\n<p>That brought to mind similar scenes in other movies, and so I&#8217;ve decided to create a Top 10 list to see if you can think of any favorites I&#8217;ve missed. Again, the criteria are simple: the scene should involve song or dance, and it should take place in a movie genre other than a musical.<\/p>\n<p>In no particular order, here&#8217;s my list (the aforementioned &#8220;13&#8230;30&#8221; rounds it out to ten):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0082146\/\">Caveman<\/a><\/em>, the eminently forgettable vehicle with Ringo Starr, Shelley Long and Dennis Quaid had a gem of a scene around a campfire in which music was invented.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1em;\">The best scene in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0119738\/\">My Best Friend&#8217;s Wedding<\/a><\/em> was during the pre-wedding meal when the group broke out into <em>Say A Little Prayer for You<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1em;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0276751\/\">About A Boy<\/a><\/em> was a surprisingly good movie all the way around, but the finale where Hugh Grant tried to save a really pitiful song was classic.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1em;\">People stayed away from <em><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0114614\/\">Tank Girl<\/a> <\/em>in droves, and in doing so, missed a wonderfully incongruous rendition of Cole Porter&#8217;s classic, <em>Let&#8217;s Do It (Let&#8217;s Fall in Love)<\/em>, complete with dominatrix.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1em;\">Some might say that Chevy Chase, John Candy and Dan Akroyd hit bottom with <em><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0102558\/\">Nothing But Trouble<\/a><\/em>, but I would point to the hip hop scene with Tupac Shakur, Fuze and Chopmaster J (among others) and ask for a recount.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1em;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0100212\/\">My Blue Heaven<\/a><\/em> is an underrated movie starring Steve Martin and Rick Moranis and it features a great scene where Steve&#8217;s character teaches Rick&#8217;s how to dance. Rick is a quick learner.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1em;\">I debated about this one, but decided that no list of this kind would be complete without Peter Boyle&#8217;s delicate rendering of <em>Puttin&#8217; On the Ritz<\/em>\u00a0in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0072431\/\">Young Frankenstein<\/a><\/em>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1em;\">Before I swore off watching her movies, I thought Whoopi Goldberg was a riot in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0105417\/\">Sister Act<\/a><\/em>, and the choir&#8217;s rendition of <em>I Will Follow Him<\/em>\u00a0is fraught with double-meaning. (Here&#8217;s a bit of unrelated trivia, btw. The nun with the really amazing voice in <em>Sister Act<\/em>&#8230;you know, the cute blonde [can I say that about a nun?]&#8230;was Wendy Makkena. She&#8217;s now starring as Jason Alexander&#8217;s wife in the CBS sitcom, <em>Listen Up<\/em>. Catch her while you can; I predict a short life for this series.)<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1em;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0110475\/\"><em>The Mask<\/em><\/a> was one of Jim Carrey&#8217;s best pure comedies, and Cameron Diaz (in her first movie role) was breathtaking during their big dance scene.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>OK, your turn. What&#8217;d I miss (other than the 25 minutes it took me to write this)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished watching 13 Going On 30 today during my torture treadmill session. Cute movie&#8230; serious lapses in plot (duh)&#8230; Jennifer Garner is a revelation. Anyway, my favorite scene in the movie was the Thriller\u00a0dance at the magazine&#8217;s party. I&#8217;m a sucker for the interjection of such scenes in movies that are not musicals, especially&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2004\/10\/19\/movie-fun-music-in-non-musicals\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Movie Fun: Music in Non-Musicals<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-music","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2347"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12710,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions\/12710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}