Great films where music is a central theme.

Yes Marco, very influential and responsible for the Cornholio as a Christ figure subtext. Glad I could further your film education.

Yes Marco, very influential and responsible for the Cornholio as a Christ figure subtext. Glad I could further your film education.

Thanks for the schoolin' on movin' pitchers, Richard. Thanks also for making me blow a fair amount of bubbly water through both nostrils when I read your treatise on Cornholio. The nostrils were in need of a bit of a flush anyway.

Nick_sr - yeah, I mentioned Black Swan a while back. Which leads me to think of one of his earlier films, which has a great soundtrack and no qualifying musical content otherwise, Requiem for a Dream - but since you like dark and disturbing films, I'm sure you're familiar with it. This of course brings to mind a more recent soundtrack by the same guy who did Requiem, Clint Mansell; he also did the haunting soundtrack to, Moon. Again, sadly, no musical content and the film does not belong in this thread, though it is an excellent film with a great performance by Sam Rockwell. Oh, damn, now I'm doing it! You see what you guys made me do?!

On a redeeming note, I just watched Wim Wenders installment, The Soul of a Man, of Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues series. I promptly ordered the soundtrack. Yes, it is entirely musical content, of course. A documentary.

http://www.mtv.com/videos/misc/675057/beavis-and-butt-head-sdcc-11-sneak-peek.jhtml#id=1667713

Maybe it's not an actual subtext....

Somehow, I didn't expect that my search for "Cornholio" (I was unfamiliar with the reference) would lead to Beavis and Butthead, given that it was driven by references from Marco and Richard. I may have to re-evaluate certain assumptions that I've had about you two. Or, about Beavis and Butthead, I suppose.

Either way, I didn't see that one coming.

Marty

Any universities offering classes on the social and cultural impacts of "Beavis and Butthead" yet, I wonder?

I kinda miss those guys!