Austin Powers
I'm amazed no one's mentioned the fact that the Austin Powers theme was lifted from this film. I couldn't help imagining Mike myers walking into the pawn shop and asking rod steiger how much he would give him for his penis pump!
shareI'm amazed no one's mentioned the fact that the Austin Powers theme was lifted from this film. I couldn't help imagining Mike myers walking into the pawn shop and asking rod steiger how much he would give him for his penis pump!
shareI noticed the same thing! I guess I had always trusted that the Austin Powers theme was original, and this was definitely not a film I was expecting to hear it in. Since it seems like in the scene in which it appears it was supposed to be playing on a radio and not part of the score, does anyone know where this tune actually originated?
Amen. And all that cal.
It originated here. Quincy Jones made it for this movie, then heisted his own song for the score for Austin Powers.
shareHa, thanks, that makes a lot of sense!
Amen. And all that cal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_Bossa_Nova
According to Wikipedia, it came out on vinyl two years before the film.
Quincy Jones didn't write the score for Austin Powers. George S. Clinton did.
shareSoul Bossa Nova wasn't made for The Pawnbroker. It appears on Quincy Jones' album Big Band Bossa Nova which was made in 1962.
shareThe song was called:
"Soul Bossa Nova"
Written by 'Quincy Jones'
Performed by 'Quincy Jones' and His Orchestra
and it was then subsequently used as the opening track for AUSTIN POWERS.
Still the same song.
I was watching this in a class today and when the "Austin Powers" music came up I wanted to burst out laughing. However, I was watching this in a Holocaust in Film class, so I felt REALLY horrible for laughing. I managed to stifle it until someone said, "They're getting RANDY."
shareDon`t even mention Austin in the same sentence as this film.
shareThe song was also used as the theme for a game show. Anybody remember what that game show was?
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-I managed to stifle it until someone said, "They're getting RANDY."-
As a matter of fact, in that scene, they WERE getting randy!
It takes a big man to cry. It takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.
Well, I cannot speak for the others, but the reason I did not notice it is simple. I turned off Austin Powers after about a quater of an hour because I found it to be almost as unfunny and idiotic as Ace Ventura.
shareI think Mike Myers and the directora and composer wanted a song that would evoke a crefree goofy image of the 60s.
Ironic that its from this film which is anything BUT!