The famous laser dance scene from Ocean’s Twelve:

This is the French song, La Caution’s Thé à la menthe, that they sampled:

The Ocean’s series has at least a dozen examples of great music-driven scenes. That’s part of what I most enjoyed about the series, the way Soderbergh would have me feeling one way, then would show me a series of images that would make me feel a certain, different way were it not for the strongly interwoven score.

Tarantino, of course, is king at this. Although I can’t find the interview, he speaks about how he refuses to put his films in the hands of a conductor for fear that they would ruin them. Far better, he says, is to select the songs you want to drive your scene and to shoot with them in mind. A philosophy I share and can’t wait to embrace on film.

A prime example of Tarantino’s musical slant: the final fight scene between The Bride and O-Ren Ishii in Kill Bill Volume 1:

My God, I love the sound effects over the dialogue, here, and the build-up to the introduction of the music. Stunning. Eerie. Beautiful. And, as per typical Tarantino, a complete melting pot of musical genres and styles.

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