![]() ![]() The trailer for Nicholas Cage’s Family Man basically plays it out line by line: “This is not my beautiful wife” - yes, Nicholas Cage, it is, and it’s Tea Leoni. Hot Tub Time Machine Family Man Rock Starĭo you have a protagonist looking to self-actualize? Do you want to send him on a crazy trip through time, space, and video games? Then “Once in a Lifetime” is a your song! Many of the lyrics concern a person uncertain about his modern life (“You may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile”). “Once in a Lifetime” says, “Woah, who/when/where am I?” Lars stands alone, dancing with himself, content but with a hidden sadness. In Lars and the Real Girl, it’s played at a party that Ryan Gosling attends with his Real Doll girlfriend. In Wall Street and later in its sequel ( Wall Street 2: More Walls, More Streets), the song soundtracks the lead in a happy moment (decorating a new fancy apartment, a kids birthday party) that is on the verge of fading. That is the case in This Must Be the Place, as Sean Penn’s character seemingly uses it as a bittersweet anthem. In most of its uses in film, it accompanies a happy character with a lingering (or impending) melancholy. ![]() It’s a love song about a person uncertain if love is really possible (“Home - is where I want to be/ But I guess I’m already there”). ![]() The song exudes a certain sort of cracking warmth. Used in: This Must Be the Place Crazy, Stupid, Love Wall Street Lars and the Real Girl He’s Just Not That Into You “This Must Be the Place” says, “Things are nice, but we’re a little bit sad about it.” We looked at the Talking Heads songs that have gotten the most screentime to figure out what their use says about the films they are used in, other than that the music supervisor has good taste. But what does it mean? What does any Talking Head song placement - whether in the movie itself, on the soundtrack, or in the trailer - mean? In short: something. That being said, the use of one of its most popular songs as the title of (and throughout) the new film This Must Be the Place, takes it to another level. It was nominated for Best Video of the Year at the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards, losing out to " Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits.The band Talking Heads is no stranger to movie soundtracks. Director Johnson re-used some of the effects techniques in award-winning videos for Peter Gabriel the following year: " Sledgehammer" and " Big Time". Scenes were also shot at Calvary Baptist Church in Hi Vista, California. Some parts were shot in the back yard and pool of actor Stephen Tobolowsky, who was co-writing Byrne's film True Stories at the time. ![]() Johnson and features the band and various objects revolving, including boxes revolving around David Byrne's head, as well as a couple growing older, masked businessmen pummeling each other with briefcases and a runaway shopping cart, as if in their own "road to nowhere". The video for the song was directed by Byrne and Stephen R. So, out of embarrassment, or shame, I wrote an intro section that had a couple more in it."Ĭash Box said that "this marching single which features David Byrne's soothing lead vocal is a curious and circus-ride look at life." Billboard said that within the song " a cappella gospel leads into Louisiana hootenanny." Music video The front bit, the white gospel choir, is kind of tacked on, 'cause I didn't think the rest of the song was enough. "I wanted to write a song that presented a resigned, even joyful look at doom," recalls David Byrne in the liner notes of Once in a Lifetime: The Best of Talking Heads. The song was released as a single in 1985 and reached No. 25 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and No. 6 on the UK, German and South African singles charts. It also appeared on Best of Talking Heads, Sand in the Vaseline: Popular Favorites, the Once in a Lifetime box set and the Brick box set. " Road to Nowhere" is a rock song written by David Byrne for the 1985 Talking Heads album Little Creatures. ![]()
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