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What was that weird tune playing at the nightclub?


Just saw the film on TCM. Wow, that was something! Reminded me a bit of Fellini, with its surreal quality and episodic structure and themed music in the background.

That nightclub scene in particular had a hauntingly effective soundtrack, repetitive in an irregular way, rising and falling against the babble of the crowd. I suppose the bit of music doesn't have the same impact on its own, but I was wondering what it was.

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The song is "Lili Marleen" , a famous German love song popular with both
German and Allied armies in World War 2. Marlene Dietrich sang this song in
both German and English back in 1940s and many years thereafter. So this
song is quite appropriate in this scene in the movie. By the way, if this
movie comes on TV again, please let me know by email. Thanks on July 15 from
[email protected]

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Yeah, whatever.

Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar, or doesn't.

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