Velvet Goldmine

There’s a witty song on John Wesley Harding’s latest album called “The End” (you can listen to it here) in which every line imagines how something unnamed will come to an end. And movie climaxes are suggested more than once. There’s the obligatory “It’ll end with the chance of a sequel for sure,” but to me the funniest couplet is this one: “It’ll end with a war, it’ll end all wrong/It’ll end with a new David Bowie song.” Right? How many movies of the past quarter century end with a (generally incongruous) new David Bowie song? The Falcon and the Snowman, Seven, and Memento rush to mind, but there are surely many, many more. Care to name some, dear readers?

Comments

[cinetrix]

No help on the Bowie front, but Wes's cine-skewing take is not surprising. Witness the Capra-tastic titles of his first few releases: Here Comes the Groom, It Happened One Night, Why We Fight, even The Name Above the Title.

[Rob Wesley Harding]

Does Lost Highway count for extra credit, as it BEGINS with a David Bowie song?

[Brendan]

Of course the _Life Aquatic_ ends with "Queen Bitch." But I almost feel that Wes Anderson doesn't count. He did sorta revive that song soundtrack-wise: it was just used in _Milk_.