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Qrazy
06-22-2009, 03:58 PM
I'm watching Doctor Zhivago right now. It has an ouverture with a nice image of birch trees. It reminds me of first year in college when I forced a friend of mine to sit through the overture for 2001: A Space Odyssey. Good times.

Do you have any favorite overtures or intermissions?
Ivan Drago
06-22-2009, 04:33 PM
The overtures of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Lawrence of Arabia, and Star Trek: The Motion Picture are a few of my favorites.
Russ
06-22-2009, 04:49 PM
My favorite is the one from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

"Ooooh, fish, fish, fishy fish"

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/8787/ftffind.jpg
Qrazy
06-22-2009, 06:17 PM
My favorite is the one from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

"Ooooh, fish, fish, fishy fish"

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/8787/ftffind.jpg

I feel like Gilliam must have had a say and/or directed this entire segment. Also is it referencing anything? It's so uniquely bizarre.
monolith94
06-22-2009, 08:00 PM
Doctor Doolittle has a nice one.
trotchky
06-22-2009, 08:45 PM
When I watched Barry Lyndon on DVD, I stopped the DVD at the intermission to eat dinner.
Pathétique
07-03-2009, 12:09 AM
I hate when they show 2001 without the overture and intermission. That Ligeti piece is great and isn't used anywhere else in the film. I suppose I could do without the intermission, but the overture is a must.
trotchky
07-03-2009, 06:47 AM
I hate when they show 2001 without the overture and intermission. That Ligeti piece is great and isn't used anywhere else in the film. I suppose I could do without the intermission, but the overture is a must.

I agree (not that I've ever been to a screening of it). 2001's overture is pretty essential to the film's meaning, imo. :\