Quentin Tarantino has a well-noted talent for taking forgotten or unfashionable actors and pieces of music, and making them cool again. He does this mainly by associating them with violence. Anyway, here's one of the best examples, 'The Lonely Shepherd' from Kill Bill, part 1:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv9-uwmZrEE
His use of Son of a Preacher Man in Pulp Fiction must have boosted Dusty Springfield's estate by an order of magnitude.
ReplyDeleteIndeed. Much more effective than that collaboration with the Pet Shop Boys.
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