Red Mosquito

zdawg624 wrote:Anyone see the trailer to this Bale film yet? Recognize a certain song?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClzRVlMhU2E#t=71

Spoiler: show

in case it wasn't clear

[...]Cooper reached out to the singer for permission to use the song "Release," the closing track of Pearl Jam's 1991 debut album "Ten," in the film. Cooper was writing from a very personal place, he says, and so certainly his own musical taste was creeping in on the fringe. But in "Release" he found an anthem that reflected the more elegiac qualities of the film. Like a handful of Vedder's work, the song is about the singer's father, who died before Vedder — who grew up believing his stepfather to be his biological father — knew the truth about him. And so it rang a grace note with some of the plot points of the film in that way, as Russell and Rodney care for their dying father, bedridden in the family's Braddock, Pennsylvania home.

"It felt like that was a song that probably carried Russell Baze through some very difficult times, as I know it did me," Cooper says. "It seemed to be a natural fit."

But Pearl Jam had never allowed the song to be used for commercial purposes and in fact collectively disdains that sort of thing. Cooper flew up to Seattle to screen an early assembly of the film for Vedder, who was a fan of "Crazy Heart," and though the director says he never really gets nervous, he was dreadfully so after that screening. But he could see instantly that the film had moved Vedder. The two men clicked on an artistic level and shared a kindred spirit, Cooper says, and without much hesitation, Vedder conceded the song's use in the film.

But then he did Cooper one better. He suggested re-recording the song for the first time in over two decades to afford a rendition rich with all the life experience he, now a father, had acquired in that time. He even tweaked the song's lyrics from "Dear Dad, can you see me now?" to "Dear Rod, can you see me now?," further embedding the musical identity of the film in the perspective of Russell Baze. And so "Out of the Furnace" is bookended with the two versions, opening with the nostalgia of the original, closing with the lived-in resonance of the re-recording.

"It's a longer recording and Eddie infused it with so much power and pain and everything that we all go through," Cooper says of the new version. "I hope it registers with everybody."

He even tweaked the song's lyrics from "Dear Dad, can you see me now?" to "Dear Rod, can you see me now?," further embedding the musical identity of the film in the perspective of Russell Baze.

theplatypus wrote:

He even tweaked the song's lyrics from "Dear Dad, can you see me now?" to "Dear Rod, can you see me now?," further embedding the musical identity of the film in the perspective of Russell Baze.

haha

BurtReynolds wrote:

theplatypus wrote:

He even tweaked the song's lyrics from "Dear Dad, can you see me now?" to "Dear Rod, can you see me now?," further embedding the musical identity of the film in the perspective of Russell Baze.

haha

I wonder if the director was really like "No hey man, thats cool, we'll just use the good one from the old days" but felt too bad to say anything.

theplatypus wrote:

He even tweaked the song's lyrics from "Dear Dad, can you see me now?" to "Dear Rod, can you see me now?," further embedding the musical identity of the film in the perspective of Russell Baze.

haha

theplatypus wrote:

He even tweaked the song's lyrics from "Dear Dad, can you see me now?" to "Dear Rod, can you see me now?," further embedding the musical identity of the film in the perspective of Russell Baze.

haha

BurtReynolds wrote:

theplatypus wrote:

He even tweaked the song's lyrics from "Dear Dad, can you see me now?" to "Dear Rod, can you see me now?," further embedding the musical identity of the film in the perspective of Russell Baze.

haha

I wonder if the director was really like "No hey man, thats cool, we'll just use the good one from the old days" but felt too bad to say anything.

BurtReynolds wrote:

theplatypus wrote:

He even tweaked the song's lyrics from "Dear Dad, can you see me now?" to "Dear Rod, can you see me now?," further embedding the musical identity of the film in the perspective of Russell Baze.

haha

I wonder if the director was really like "No hey man, thats cool, we'll just use the good one from the old days" but felt too bad to say anything.

"It's a longer recording and Eddie infused it with so much power and pain and everything that we all go through," Cooper says of the new version. "I hope it registers with everybody."

stupidmop wrote:http://entertainment-buzz.tumblr.com/po ... to-musical

This says there were 15 songs, so basically an entire album. I wonder if we'll ever get to hear them. Eddie should tweak them so they're unrelated to the movie and just release it.

McParadigm wrote:

stupidmop wrote:http://entertainment-buzz.tumblr.com/po ... to-musical

This says there were 15 songs, so basically an entire album. I wonder if we'll ever get to hear them. Eddie should tweak them so they're unrelated to the movie and just release it.

So while we're chewing on scraps for the next 5 years, waiting impatiently for this ever-aging band to get the nut up and get into the studio, we can at least take solace in the fact that oh wait no we can't.