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The firework scene gets your blood pumping...


The firework scene in this film = David Bowie scene in 'Bad Blood' = the creepy industrial band scene in 'Pola X' = the accordion scene in 'Holy Motors'.

I madly love these trademark music sequences that Leos Carax puts into almost all of his films. All of these scenes get your blood pumping. All of them involve characters reacting to music:

- in 'Bad Blood', a character runs as fast as he can to a song of David Bowie;

- in 'The Lovers on the Bridge', two characters dance like crazy to a mix of different songs they hear in the street; there's also a short scene where they walk the streets of Paris to another song of David Bowie;

- in 'Pola X', two characters watch some creepy industrial band play some even creepier music;

- in 'Holy Motors', MANY characters play music in a church and this is the first time that everyone involved in a scene participates in playing the music (in 'Pola X', some of the characters were playing it while some of them were watching them play).

I haven't seen 'Boy Meets Girl' yet. Is there such a sequence?

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I agree. Leos Carax uses music in an innovative cinematic fashion and seems to have a profound passion for it. To answer your question yes there is such a sequence in "Boy Meets Girl". The protagonist walks down the streets while David Bowie's "When I Live My Dream" is heard. I also remember hearing Dead Kennedys' "Holiday in Cambodia" in the film.

All of these scenes are just amazing, and they are never self-deliberate. They always serve a function whether it's difficult to point out or not. I love the scene in Bad Blood the most if I had to pick one. It just seems to me as a perfect expression of the protagonist's existence. The song was "Modern Love" by David Bowie.

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