Zack Snyder Gushes About Richard Cheese -- Is This a 'Watchmen' Hint?
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I've had a thing for lounge covers of popular songs ever since I heard Jaymz Bee's take on Alanis Morissette's "You Oughta Know" and Loverboy's "Turn Me Loose." But those were all Canadian covers. Stateside, Richard Cheese & Lounge Against the Machine take care of the big lounge covers, and Watchmen filmmaker Zack Snyder really likes them. He likes them so much, in fact, that he just wrote a blog post about them for MTV. Considering the fact that he is in the final weeks of shooting the film, I would say that he's probably got a lot on his mind. Maybe it's a jump, but I wonder if he would be writing an 880 word blog post right now that isn't, somehow, specifically linked to the film. Snyder mentions the feature, and thinking about music for the film, but doesn't specifically connect the two and state that lounge covers will appear in the movie.
But really, if done right, lounge covers could completely make sense in the alternate reality of Watchmen, where the same pop figures pop up, but in a different context since there were, for a time, masked heroes helping to keep the streets safe. Snyder says: "Although tonally they are vastly different in many ways, the film and the Cheese-y music share an in-your-face look at the world, calling bullsh-- on pop culture in an unapologetic way."
Here, here! But please, Mr. Snyder, check out Jaymz as well.
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1-30-2008 @ 3:21PM
RightNextToMarsDotCom said...
I can't imagine quite how Cleese could be weaved into the "Watchmen," but I'm willing to wait and see. Should probably be noted, though, that Snyder used two Cleese tunes in his remake of "Dawn of the Dead," most notably their cover of "Down With the Sickness" during the good-times-in-the-mall-while-the-world-ends montage. It's a beautiful thing to behold.
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1-30-2008 @ 3:22PM
RightNextToMarsDotCom said...
Whoops...Cheese not Cleese. Got Monty on the mind today, I guess.
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1-30-2008 @ 6:55PM
cubitfox said...
The down with the sickness cover during dawn of the dead was one of the greatest placed songs in the movie. It was dark, funny, and just right for the scene. If Snyder places another lounge cover in Watchmen, i trust that he would know where to put it (the guy is a genius).
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4-02-2008 @ 4:13PM
Thomas said...
Genius??? Snyder????
bwahhhahaha, I guess the standard for genius has lowered concerdiably within the past 5 years
Zach is nowhere near the genius catagory
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