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What Do 'The Dark Knight' and 'Fight Club' Have in Common?
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I'm sure if you pick apart the themes and scenes from both films, you'll find that The Dark Knight and Fight Club have lots in common, though for the purpose of this post we're talking about a song called "Where Is My Mind?" from The Pixies. In David Fincher's Fight Club, the song played during the final scene as Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter lock hands and watch the city in front of them crumble to the ground. Remember? Well in honor of The Dark Knight's television premiere on HBO this Saturday, June 13, the cable channel is airing two pretty groovy commercials featuring the same exact Pixies song mixed with a bunch of those memorable (yet haunting) pieces of dialogue and scenes from last year's biggest film.
I couldn't have said it better than Brian over at MTV's Splash Page, who notes: "The shots of the burned out buildings and The Joker's hospital demolition scene are particularly effective with the music for anyone who has heard in the background during Tyler Durden's anarchist attack on civilization in "Fight Club." It's also a great match for an in intensely cerebral film like "Dark Knight" where the hero's sanity is constantly being picked apart as much as the villain's." So who's staying in with me on Saturday night to welcome Batman to HBO?
Watch both HBO commercials and the scene from Fight Club after the jump.
More on SXSW headline films
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News from Matt Dentler, the SXSW film festival producer, always brightens my day. Today
he announced a preliminary list of films premiering at SXSW 2006. The big opening-night event will be the North
American premiere of A Prairie Home Companion, directed by
Robert Altman and featuring an all-star cast including Lindsay Lohan. As posted earlier, Karina is happy the
lineup includes loudQUIETloud: A Film About Pixies, a
documentary about the Pixies reunion tour. I am a little more interested in The Notorious Bettie Page, a biopic starring Gretchen Mol in the
title role as well as David Straithairn and Lili Taylor, even though it's received mixed reviews. Other
big-name premieres include The King, which stars Gael Garcia
Bernal (as a guy named Elvis, natch) and William Hurt, and the world premiere of Tales of the Rat Fink, a documentary narrated by John Goodman
about hot-rod designer Ed "Big Daddy" Roth.I'm sure I'll like seeing some of these movies at SXSW in March, but my favorite films from the festival tend to be the movies I can't see anywhere else, the ones that may never receive wide distribution. For example, last year I enjoyed The Aggressives, which has not played Austin outside of SXSW. If I miss any of the big-name films, I usually can catch them in a theater later in the year. Still, it's fun to see the star-studded lineup of premieres that SXSW attracts, and even more fun to join the crowd lining up outside the Paramount to see a couple of these premieres before anyone you know.
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