Why isn't Pink Cadillac


The song on the soundtrack for this movie?

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I'd say, because the whole flic was so cheap, they couldn't afford it.



Nobody likes you. Everybody hates you. You're gonna lose. Smile, you f.ck.

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I'd say, because the whole flic was so cheap, they couldn't afford it.


With Warner Brothers backing a Clint Eastwood vehicle for a holiday (Memorial Day weekend) release, that presumption doesn't fly. Rather, the film fared so badly at the box office that the studio probably didn't see any point to releasing an album or CD, although the theme song is terrific and perhaps the best aspect of Pink Cadillac.

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Sometimes filmmakers will see it as abit obvious and cheesy to use a song that directly realtes to the title. Also, that song was never released on an actual Springsteen album so it wasn't quite as well known than as it is now.

"I've seen things in this city that make Dante's Inferno read like Winnie The Pooh."

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Sometimes filmmakers will see it as abit obvious and cheesy to use a song that directly realtes to the title. Also, that song was never released on an actual Springsteen album so it wasn't quite as well known than as it is now.


Oh, I now see what the original poster was referring to. According to Wikipedia (for what it's worth), "Pink Cadillac" constituted the B-side track to "Dancing in the Dark" in 1984, the song reached #27 on Billboard's "Top Tracks," and Springsteen played it quite a bit in concert in the mid-eighties, so it would have been well known enough to audiences.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Cadillac_(song)

I'd say that your first explanation makes sense. Eastwood later referred to using a popular song on the soundtrack in that manner as "whoring out."

Of course, we don't know if he or his associates at Malpaso (his production company) were aware of the song or if anyone at Warner Brothers suggested using it.

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I assume that was the song the OP was referring to but unless he clarifies there is no way of knowing. There have also been two or three other (unrelated) songs with the same title and then, of course, there is the Elvis song (forget the title) that refers to a "pink Cadillac" in the lyrics. On the other hand, if I recall correctly both Southern Pacific songs on the soundtrack have references to Cadillacs in the lyrics.

"I've seen things in this city that make Dante's Inferno read like Winnie The Pooh."

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Really??? That's your question????

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