In typical fashion, Quentin Taratino’s “Death Proof” soundtrack (his half of the “Grindhouse” double feature), repurposes music from past movies. Now this isn’t a major crime and is part of Tarantino’s shtick (Much of the “Jackie Brown” soundtrack was taken from ’70 exploitation films, like Bobby Womack’s “Across 110th Street,” taken from the eponymously titled film, uh, “Across 11oth Street”), but you wonder after a while whether some of his geek boy fans will recognize that his “genius” is simply recycling. Perhaps they don’t care. Or perhaps artists borrow and geniuses steal.
Music in the movie includes songs by April March, Jack Nitzsche (“The Last Race” from 1968’s “Village of the Giants“), Pino Donaggio (“Sally And Jack” was first used in Brian DePalma‘s Michaelangelo Antonioni homage, “Blow Out“), Ennio Morricone (An atonal track taken from Italian horror maestro Dario Argento’s “Gatto A Nove Code”), Willy DeVille (“It’s So Easy” from “Cruising”), the Coasters, Eddie Floyd and more.
What, no “Planet Terror” soundtrack? I suppose if you were fucking Rose McGowan, you too would be too busy to cobble together a soundtrack disc.
But actually, there is a “Planet Terror” soundtrack and it just seems that Tarantino’s soundtrack has naturally been eating up all the attention (it doesn’t help that they are both released on different record labels and Rodriguez’s disc is coming on a fairly unknown imprint). Most of “Terror” is composed by Rodriguez himself, an accomplished musician, with the help of Graeme Revell, Rick Del Castillo, Carl Thiel, George Oldziey and his younger sister Rebecca Rodriguez.
Is this the official “Death Proof” soundtrack website? (see? No, “Planet Terror” site?) If so, it’s got the weirdest URL I’ve seen for a film affiliated with a major studio. Perhaps it’s some in joke we don’t know about. It’s highly possible.
