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Song and missing scene from trailer?

posted 14 years ago by golden_hawk
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm9oMGJDY-8

Not a very good trailer for an amazing movie! I'm specifically wondering about...

(a) 0:22 with the Eiffel Tower is missing from my 20 year-old tape, safe to assume it didn't make it to the final cut? Is it on the DVD?

(b) the song - who's singing, and was it dropped in favour of Thereza Bazar's version? Also what's with the movie credit to Joan Jett for yet another cool Gotcha song which is nowhere in the film? (And which I know solely from her awesome Flashback album.)

Any info is appreciated!

[–] Fluke_Skywalker 14 years ago

I can't help you with A.) but I can shed some light on B.)

The gorgeous Joan Jett did indeed have a song called "Gotcha" which she released and it had nothing to do with the film but she also did a song for the sound track to the movie called "Gotcha where I want ya". That's the song you hear in the trailer. It's a totally different song from her own "Gotcha" and Thereza Bazar's "Gotcha" which is the theme song of the film.

[I was going to post a link to "Gotcha where I want ya" on youtube but it's not up]

Hope that helps .

’Cause there’s thunder in your heart... Every move is like lightning!

[–] golden_hawk 14 years ago

Unbelievable, that's her? How do you go from Bad Reputation to that?

The reason I always assumed the Flashback song (Gotcha) and the one listed in the end credits (Gotcha Where I Want Ya) were the same was that, a slightly altered title notwithstanding, the hook to the former is... the title of the latter.

Actually their own website seems to corroborate this view - http://joanjettbadrep.com/cgi-bin/lyrics.cgi?song=Gotcha - notice the links down below to Flashback as well as the Gotcha soundtrack. That would make the trailer song something else entirely, no?

Thanks for the input in any case!

[–] Fluke_Skywalker 14 years ago

Unbelievable, that's her? How do you go from Bad Reputation to that?

The reason I always assumed the Flashback song (Gotcha) and the one listed in the end credits (Gotcha Where I Want Ya) were the same was that, a slightly altered title notwithstanding, the hook to the former is... the title of the latter.

Actually their own website seems to corroborate this view - http://joanjettbadrep.com/cgi-bin/lyrics.cgi?song=Gotcha - notice the links down below to Flashback as well as the Gotcha soundtrack. That would make the trailer song something else entirely, no?

Thanks for the input in any case!

It's tough to say for sure without hearing the song ["Gotcha where I want ya"] but oddly it wasn't on youtube.

’Cause there’s thunder in your heart... Every move is like lightning!

[–] golden_hawk 14 years ago

Joan Jett's Gotcha is on YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y5-j1DI1jM

I think that's Where I Want Ya and (sorry to pursue this further, but) I don't think that's her in the trailer, where'd you hear it was? The thing about the trailer song in any case is that the lyrics will take you nowhere google-wise, it's like it doesn't exist.

[–] SenileFelines 13 years ago

(a) Yeah, you're right. There is no Eiffel Tower in the movie. Nice for you.

They land in Paris. Take accelerated taxi to hotel. Then there's a shot of the Arc de Triomphe. The only Eiffel Tower(s) they check out are on a lady on the Champs-Élysées. Then they go to the Louvre where Manolo, pretending to be Carlos (shhh), goes off with a Swede (Swiss) girl. Then Jonathan goes to a café and orders PerNOD avec de l'eau.

Jonathan and Manolo do have this exchange while they're at the Louvre though.
- Why don't you go check out the Eiffel Tower?
- I already saw it.
- See it again!

So yeah, they definitely shot that scene but it got cut.

http://i39.tinypic.com/2il0na.jpg

[–] golden_hawk 13 years ago

Wow thanks for the insight! That's, HAH, kind of unlike you style-wise! That's too bad the scene got cut, though I doubt I'd ever watch a version of the film that's not my own. Hah - last time I went to the Louvre I looked for the spot where Manolo cornered Tiina Maria and I recited his lines.

[–] Chip_douglas 11 years ago

Bit of a late reply, but Joan Jett's song is briefly heard in the movie after the Beta guys throw a football through Jonathan's window. It is definitely not the same song that was used in the trailer.

Chip

"I think that Amish Robot was drunk"