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what's the ending song?


i can't find this info! help please

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I don't know and I don't care. It is crap, like most modern music, but that is not the main point..

Buñuel's point is that the "beggars are the ones that have good taste", they choose the best table cloth, the best food (Spanish roast lamb's leg is famous, mostly the one from Segovia. There is also a good restaurant in Plaza Mayor in Madrid, that serves it) and the best music. Haendel's "Messiah" (I think it is Sir Malcolm Sargeant's version, with The Royal Liverpool Philarmonic and the Huddersfield Choral Society, a somewhat "old" interpretation but perhaps the most spiritual of all available versions), is as masterpiece.

On the opposite side, Jorge, the cousin of Viridiana, after expelling the "UNCIVILIZED" from his newly inherited mansion, goes to play "tute" with Ramona, the servant and Viridiana whose soul has been corrupted by all the previous events. "Tute" in spanish is a card game but the word also carries sexual connotations.

So, the message is plain: "New Lords are worse than Old Rabble".

Bunuel was the right visionary 44 years ago. And he was not an enemy of God. He was the enemy of the Catholic Church, it's false beliefs, and sexual morals. Not all, but most, still persist today...

Other "Christian Churches" of our time behave the same. No further statements about the music, or the politics of our time.

Get a copy of "A proposito de Bunuel" a Spanish documentary distributed togheter with the USA version of "The Discreet charm of the Bourgeoisie". And forget about songs. This is a movie site, and movies are a VISUAL ART form.






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ok, all that is really deep. i just thought viridiana was a complete moron! i tolerated her at first but after actually inviting those homeless crazy people home......i was done! but the ending song was "catchy". i'd also like to know who is it by. can anyone help? ps: they actually give an academy award for movie songs, the music is PART of the movie. it sets the tone, mood, pace, etc. even silent films had someone playing an organ to accompany the movie. DUH!

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...That guy above is pretty pretentious about film/music, and wrong, too. Music is definitely a major component of film. Film wouldn't be film if not for the likes of Morricone, Rota, Herrmann, et cetera.

I'm a huge rockabilly fan, so that song in the end really caught my ear. Unfortunately, I didn't quite remember the name, (the title ran during the opening credits, but I forgot it.)

I think it went something like "Shimmy Shimmy Girl," or "Go Go Shimmy," or something like that. I wish I remembered. Sorry.

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Buñuel used modern music as well at the end of another of his most religion-oriented works: "Simón del desierto".

Another masterpiece by "Saint Luis Buñuel".


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Well I've been for a long time trying to figure out which recording of the Requiem is used in the film. Do you happen to know? At one point we get a glimpse of the record, I think it looks like a "his master's voice" but I'm not sure, I only remember clearly that it was red :-)
Is it Walter's recording??

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Buñuel's point is that the "beggars are the ones that have good taste", they choose the best table cloth, the best food (Spanish roast lamb's leg is famous, mostly the one from Segovia. There is also a good restaurant in Plaza Mayor in Madrid, that serves it) and the best music. Haendel's "Messiah" (I think it is Sir Malcolm Sargeant's version, with The Royal Liverpool Philarmonic and the Huddersfield Choral Society, a somewhat "old" interpretation but perhaps the most spiritual of all available versions), is as masterpiece.

On the opposite side, Jorge, the cousin of Viridiana, after expelling the "UNCIVILIZED" from his newly inherited mansion, goes to play "tute" with Ramona, the servant and Viridiana whose soul has been corrupted by all the previous events. "Tute" in spanish is a card game but the word also carries sexual connotations.

So, the message is plain: "New Lords are worse than Old Rabble".
This is true! Jorge's sense of progress was dubious to say the least. The beggars appreciated what they were enjoying as they knew its worth.
To say a little often is to tell more than to say a great deal.

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Crap or not, a rockabilly song played to the images of a burning crown of thorns , that is powerful, especially after all that Händel and Mozart the characters have been listening to.
The song is not credited, but the lyrics go "Shake, shake your cares away" or something.

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"I don't know and I don't care. It is crap, like most modern music, but that is not the main point.."

Nope, the main point is that Roebuck74 wanted to know what it was, not what your thoughts of it were. Jeez.

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"Shake, Shimmy Doll, Shake", I believe.

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I found a song called "Shimmy Doll" by Ashley Beaumont on the internet, but couldn't find the lyrics and don't know if it is the one used in the film.

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"Shimmy Doll" is indeed the name of the song. I have it on the rock 'n roll compilation album "Desperate Rock 'n Roll, vol. 4". It's a pretty obscure song!

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isn t brenda lee? or am i wrong? i always believed that.
i loved the song amd matches perfectly with the scene,remember now viridiana left the church to become a modern woman...see that when she combs her hair before entering the room.

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It is a man singing.

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I've only seen the film once, but I was really struck by the oddity of the rock and roll tune at the very end. My feeling was that Bunuel wanted some sort of modern, secular music, that would be the greatest possible contrast with the restrained, aristocratic atmosphere earlier, and the solemn, traditional Catholic imagery.

The other thing I felt was the obviously American sound and style of the tune; also in vivid contrast with the Spanish setting and characters. The sexy rhythm and lyrics certaily contrast Viridiana's ambiguous new status with her previous life style.

I would love to know more about how Bunuel happened to choose that song. Had he heard it somewhere and remembered it as being perfect for his movie, or was it sheer chance, perhaps just a suitable record that didn't require much in the way of licensing fees?

Does anyone know any more details? One poster here remarked that they actually own it on a collection, but that it's definitely an obscure tune.

And when he crossed the bridge, the phantoms came to meet him

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He picked it because that was what was typical for juke-box fare at that period, whatever country one lived in. The old culture of the uncle, for better or worse, was swept away by the modernizing of his nephew.

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That is Ashley Beaumont's "Shimmy Doll". You can find a sound clip at http://rcs.law.emory.edu/rcs/artists/b/beau8000.htm

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Here it is: Ashley Beaumont singing Shimmy Doll on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TIN-OwbiXE

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. -- A. Einstein

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