Will Thanks for list of all the popular 50 songs..much appreciated :) I think the one below by Andrew Sisters might work *************************** "I Can Dream, Can't I?" (Words by Irving Kahal and Music by Sammy Fain) (Dream on, dream on) I can see No matter how near you'll be You'll never belong to me But I can dream, can't I Can't I pretend That I'm locked in the bend of your embrace For dreams are just like wine And I am drunk with mine I'm aware My heart is a sad affair There's much disillusion there But I can dream, can't I Can't I adore you Although we are oceans apart I can't make you open your heart But I can dream, can't I I'm aware My heart is a sad affair There's much disillusion there But I can dream, can't I Can't I adore you Although we are oceans apart I can't make you open your heart But I can dream, can't I (Dream on, dream on, dream on) I can dream, can't I

Let me get this out while it's still fresh in my head. Doris Day's "Secret Love" plays over the Paramount logo. Fade in to the main title sequence, a montage of abstract closeups: white, clean surfaces, sterile... seems like a hospital or doctor's office. Feet stapped down, wrists strapped down... is someone being tortured? Surgical intruments gleaming in the light. An operation? A pair of scissors are picked up... cut to almost a repeat shot of a straight razor being picked up. Someone's head is being shaved. Then a hand marks a spot on the scalp... still Doris day sings. It's a lobotomy! YAAAHHH!!! Then a cranial drill appears at the top of the frame, tilting down to the scalp... it's about to hit skin when... a SMASH CUT to a hand blender in the exact same position as the drill, the camera finishing its tilt as it enters a plastic tumbler filled with crushed ice, strawberries, tequila and margarita mix. Doris Day finishes her song as the tumbler swirls a blood-red (muahahahahaha). The camera pulls back to reveal feminine hands pour the contents of the tumbler into a margarita glass. The woman is in a kitchen somewhere. Cut to an exterior as the woman's hand reaches out to a man sitting on the deck of a yacht. It's a medium shot (the year, 1990 or whatever it is in the book, is mentioned in titles), and we see the man from behind (gray hair under a baseball cap) take the glass and set it down. He writes in his journal about the Summer of '54 and the twin terrors... yadda, yadda.. Solando & Laeddis.. yadda. He takes a sip (camera over his shoulder)... SMASH CUT to DiCaprio as Teddy giving the ole vomitorious heave-ho over the railing of a boat as it steadily swims over the rough surf of Boston Harbor while screen titles tell it's 35 years earlier. The camera pulls back and we see Mark Ruffalo as Chuck standing to Teddy's side, shaking his head and laughing at the entertainment value of it all. Teddy suddenly remembers aloud why he never joined the navy. The END of the beginning! The end of the END: A smiling shot of Teddy on the beach of Shutter Island. The camera pans over to Chuck smiling , then a SMASH CUT to Chuck (the man in the baseball cap is revealed as Mark Ruffalo) smiling to his wife, as he puts the glass down. "Too bitter" he says to her. A grayed Emily Mortimer rolls her eyes and takes the glass as the camera pulls back, a helicopter shot pulls up, up, and away as Roy Buchanan's "Secret Love" plays on the soundtrack. The name of the boat is finally revealed: The Solando... as the credits roll. After the final credit, there's a continuation of the main title sequence: the worst nightmare imaginable -- waking up in the middle of your own lobotomy! WAAAHHHH!!!! Just 12 frames worth, but we see an extreme closeup of DiCaprio's closed eyelids and the sound of a cranial drill in the distance. Suddenly they open! Cut to black.

Peanut, that song could work, if just a bit of it is heard... :) And it's an ok song, too. I wish they could find some use for "You belong to me". Actually, the sweeter the song, the more eerie it will sound like in this film. Arnzilla, muahahahahaha, indeed. I like your bookending shots of the drill. (In fact, it reminds of that 50s-60s film which ends with the protagonist being drilled as well. Only in that case, he was screaming.) I wouldn't be surprised to hear some Doris Day in the film. I'm under the impression, somehow, that Scorsese likes her. As for classical music, the novel mentions Mahler being heard during the Naehring/Cawley meeting. And Teddy remembering hearing something similar in the German commandant's office.

Arnz Too funny....I do love your ending ! :) Shynney Thanks for info :)

That's the one! Have we talked about it here before...? can't remember... It actually doesn't end with a lobotomy, I think. Even though it's performed in an operating room. It's only the drilling tool that makes me think about it. Here's the title sequence of it: spoilers And the trailer: spoilers where some of the dialogue could be modified like this: Teddy: Don't stare at me like that... Hey, John? Hey, John! Why are they staring at me like that? Cawley: They know. Teddy: They know what? Cawley: They're like you. Teddy: What do you mean...? Cawley: Inmates.

Again, from Scorsese's MySpace page, regarding his musical preferences: ..... I have a fondness for doo wop -- you have to imagine what that music sounded like in the 1950s, drifting into the night from the radio and from record players. I listen to certain pieces of classical music obsessively -- Beethoven, Bach, Lully, Mozart, Mahler. I grew up on Swing music and Django Reinhardt and the Hot Club of France, Sinatra, Bennett... I could go on and on.

Arnzilla I hope they don't take your suggestions too literally or I may only see the film through the gaps between my fingers as I cower under the seat. :? I like the idea of a Roy Buchan version of Secret Love to go with Doris Day. :D Will Thanks for all the hit's of the 50's. I was also thinking we might get some classical referrences, Mahler being the most obvious because it's mentioned in the book. Scorsese's comment about his use of St Matthew's Passion in Casino because "they're deserving of Bach just because they are human" keeps me thinking about some of the characters in this story too.

What is this music that we have fronting the boards now? Sounds like something from 'Out of Africa'. Does it have significance I wonder? Only Arnzilla knows, is he telling???

Well it's about time someone finally asked.:D It's from a movie, but not Out of Africa. I labeled the file "dream.wav" when I uploaded it. But that's all the clues you get for now.:P Stay tuned, and step up y'all if you have the answer.

Thanks for the clue Arnzilla. It does sound familiar. Can we have a little more please?

I stay tuned. I first thought that it came from an old theme in Franju's Eyes Without a Face... but I'm still waiting :D

Arnzilla Is it from Hitchcock's Spellbound? The music from the Dali Dream Sequence?. If it not that then I give up!

I wish I could hear the music, unfortunately my PC won't seem to let me hear it. :cry: