Round 1, Block 2, Matchup 13
#9 The Godfather
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#120 Shaft
#9 The Godfather vs. #120 Shaft
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#9 The Godfather.
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#120 Shaft
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Round 1, Block 2, Matchup 14
#56 You Know My Name (Casino Royale)
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#73 Lookin for Love (Urban Cowboy)
#56 You Know My Name (Casino Royale) vs. #73 Lookin for Love (Urban Cowboy)
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#56 You Know My Name (Casino Royale).
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#73 Lookin for Love (Urban Cowboy)t
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Round 1, Block 2, Matchup 15
#24 Once Upon a Time in the West
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#105 Vertigo
#24 Once Upon a Time in the West vs. #105 Vertigo
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#24 Once Upon a Time in the West.
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#105 Vertigo
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Round 1, Block 2, Matchup 16
#41 Dueling Banjos (Deliverance)
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#88 Smile (Modern Times)
#41 Dueling Banjos (Deliverance) vs. #88 Smile (Modern Times)
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#41 Dueling Banjos (Deliverance).
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#88 Smile (Modern Times)
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!!! Brutal set of matches. Gonna have to think about these.
Against All Odds is one of the theme songs of the extremely pathetic romantic life of LFS as a young man. In 8th grade the girl I loved did not love me, and I went home from the 8th grade dance and listened to Against All Odds all night. I’m voting this for you, Kathy Dolan, wherever you may be.
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What did you do to make your move?? I’m sorry she didn’t love you back 
It is so much more pathetic than you could possibly imagine. I managed her campaign to be class president. She won, and gave me a candy bar as thanks. Then at the dance she was with the BMOC new kid in school, Bart. Everybody knew I was infatuated with her, and I was super sad, so she asked me to dance with her for one song out of pity. Which I did, and then she went back to Bart.
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Brutal. You gave her your heart, and she gave you a candy bar.
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I can offer you one silver lining: you didn’t become a meme.
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You gotta fucking be kidding me. Literally the first two in the whole tourney I’ve gotten super excited about. GAHHHHHHH
I gotta go with Stayin’ Alive though. That song somehow never gets old. But fucking hell I would have voted for Goldfinger over anything else so far. WHY DO YOU PEOPLE DO THIS TO ME
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JFC I fell asleep during both of these.
I’m sure it will be The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly vs. Stayin’ Alive next.
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This wouldn’t happen if we brought back the patriarchy. Giving women the right to chose their mates has been the downfall of Western Society.
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You fell asleep during The Man With the Harmonica but find it painful to think of Goldfinger losing? This sequence can’t be real life.
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Gimme a timestamp that grabs you. All I heard was a bunch of slow strings.
I was hoping for some Sergio Leone.
Is it just me or does Ronny Cox in “Deliverance” look a helluva lot like David Letterman?
Ah shit. I hadn’t started listening yet. I assumed the track was the all-time elite track from Once Upon a Time in the West (The Man With the Harmonica).
Now your post makes way more sense to me.
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I started to type up a post addressing my reasoning in each and then lost it, so I’ll just put in a couple of notes:
*Until earlier this year, it never occurred to me that in the Ghostbusters title track, “bustin’ makes me feel good” was almost certainly an intentional double entendre. Figuring this out reminded me of De Niro in Meet the Parents innocently saying, “Well Puff is just the name of the boy’s magical dragon.” I don’t buy for a second that that’s a drug song, by the way. But the reference stands.
*I’m so charmed by the fact that Charlie Chaplin just casually dropped the instrumental rendition of Smile as his original personal composition as part of his various GOATing that went into making Modern Times that I felt the need to vote for it here. It’s perfectly fine that Deliverance is going to win.
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Also just want to say: I think this theme does a ton for the movie. It’s a comedy that includes funny slapstick gags as can be expected with Chaplin, but the reason that I see this as the peak Chaplin film is the underlying message about how the working class was being tread upon as they struggled within a rigged system, and the increasing empathy you feel for the characters and their plight as it goes on is really punctuated by this theme that later had full lyrics added for the Nat King Cole hit (smile though your heart is aching and all that). It gets used a few times during the film and always feels incredibly poignant. It does one of the things that movie scores are really meant to do by beautifully underscoring the emotional point.
Anyway, I wish I could ride harder for it as a deserving winner for at least one round, but the Deliverance banjos are awesome and I really can’t complain.
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Fun little bit of Oscar trivia. Charlie Chaplin won 2 Oscars, one was a 1972 Honorary Award. You would never guess the second.
1973 Best Original Dramatic Score for Limelight. Limelight was actually first released in 1952. But it wasn’t released in LA until 1972 which still made it eligible to be nominated. An all timer of the Academy looking to finally give an Oscar to a legend.
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