Awful choice of music for ending.
WTF was Schnabel thinking? Tom Waits? Seriously? The entire story takes place in Palestine and has an entirely Semitic cast of characters. How in any way is a Tom Waits track suitable?
shareWTF was Schnabel thinking? Tom Waits? Seriously? The entire story takes place in Palestine and has an entirely Semitic cast of characters. How in any way is a Tom Waits track suitable?
shareSeriously. His answer was that "he likes Tom Waits."
shareI actually assumed that's all the reasoning there could be behind the choice.
Ridiculous. Tom Waits, American, American born Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee closes out a film about the Palestinian struggle in Palestine.
What a tard.
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Miral leaves to Italy anyway at the end, so it's not like she really cared about Palestine either. She probably loves to listen to Tom Waits with her Jewish boyfriend in Soho.
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Yeah! And what was Wong Kar Wai thinking using Nat King Cole singing in Spanish for a movie that takes place in Hong Kong?!
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"Schnabel, a true artist, was obviously making an artistic choice, not a provincial one. Your comment seems very narrow-minded, and this is curious because you don't seem to be a narrow-minded person."
It stuck out like a sore thumb, sorry to say. I suspect he just wanted to use the track in the film and that was the impetus for him - that he likes Tom Waits. It may as well have been the Looney Tunes theme as far as I'm concerned because after watching and listening to an entire feature length film about the epic struggle between Palestinians and Jews, suddenly - Tom Waits?!?!?!
It's an abhorrent choice and just doesn't fit, regardless of his personal taste and regardless of what he's done with his other film.
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music transcends race, color, creed ... it's universal. otherwise only the English would listen to the Rolling Stones and only Americans would listen to Elivs and Michael Jackson. Instead music is in a way the common thread that unites all people around the world because the emotions stirred are the same even if you're a Palestinian and have never heard of Tom Waits.
It's obvious the director felt the song held a special meaning for the movie and wasn't bothered about the difference in country of origin. and neither should anyone else.
ask the spokesperson, I don't have a brain
Transcends, blah, blah, blah...
I don't give a rat's arse about a music's race, color, country of origin, creed, blah, blah.
The quality of that particular track is SO out of place in this film, it's not funny. And I'm not the only person who feels this way:
"The most inappropriate choice may be the music cue over a procession at film’s end, Tom Waits’ guttural croon of “Down There by the Train"...
"In the final scenes, jarringly and inexplicably, images of a funeral are accompanied by Tom Waits singing “All the World Is Green” on the soundtrack."
"With its empty visual flourishes, and with music by such scenester pals as Laurie Anderson and Tom Waits, Miral plays like an art project that took a wrong turn somewhere between SoHo and Ramallah."
“What's up with Tom Waits song at the end of the trailer? Absolutely doesn't fit in this context.”
"Look out for Tom Waits' "Down There By The Train" at the end of the trailer, too. Location and subject matter be damned, Schnabel seems to love using the guy's music (we can't blame him) regardless of the story he's filmed."
"When Tom Waits starts croaking on the soundtrack, hipster exhaustion becomes crippling."
"But none of the imagery really gets to the essence of the Israeli/Palestine conflict quite the way Tom Waits does. On second thought..."
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Ironic? I don't know about that. All I know is, I'm sitting there somewhat transfixed by the story - Palestinians, Jews, death, generations of struggle, and then - Tom Waits. It struck me as being wholly out of place at a point in the story where a viewer should be allowed to reflect a bit on the story.
I'd guess that Schnabel just really wanted to put a Tom Waits track in the film.
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You're right. He should have used Tom Waits' excellent isopolitical song Road To Peace instead.
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Road To Peace
Young Abdel Madi Shabneh was only 18 years old
The youngest of 9 children, he'd never spent a nite away from home
And his mother held his photograph, up in the New York Times
You see the killing has intensified, along the road to peace
A tall thin boy with a whispy moustache, disguised as an Orthodox Jew
On a crowded bus in Jerusalem, some had survived World War II
And the thunderous explosion blew out windows, 200 yards away
More retribution and 17 dead, along the road to peace
Now at King George Avenue and Jaffa Road, passengers boarded bus 14A
In the aisle next to the driver Abdel Madi Shabneh
And the last thing that he said on earth was "G-d is great and G-d is good"
And he blew them all to kingdom come, upon the road to peace
Now in response to this, another kiss of death was visited upon
Yashir Tehah, Israel said is an Hamas Senior militant
Israel sent 4 choppers in, flames engulfed his white Opel
And it killed his wife and his 3-year-old child, leaving only blackened skeletons
They found a toddler's bottle and a pair of small shoes,
and they waved them in front of the cameras
But Israel said they did not know that his wife and child were in the car
There are roadblocks everywhere and only suffering on TV
Neither side will ever give up their smallest right, along the road to peace
Israel launched its latest campaign against Hamas on Tuesday
And two days later Hamas shot back and killed five Israeli soldiers
Though thousands dead and wounded on both sides, most of them Middle Eastern civilians
They fill their children full of hate, to fight an old man's war and die, upon the road to peace
"And this is our land we will fight with all our force", say the Palastinians and the Jews
And each side will cut off the hand of anyone who tries to stop the Resistance
If the right eye offends thee, then you must pluck it out
And Machoud Abbas and Sharon had been lost, along the road to peace
Once Kissinger said: "We have no friends, America only has interests"
And now our president wants to be seen as a hero and he's hungry for re-election
But Bush is reluctant to risk his future, with the fear of his political failures
So he plays chess at his desk and poses for the press, ten thousand miles from the road to peace
In a video that they found at the home of Abdel Madi Shabneh
He held a Kalashnikov riffle, and he spoke with the voice like a boy
He was an excellent student, he studied so hard, it was as if he had a future
He told his mother he had a test that day, out along the road to peace
The fundamentalist killing on both sides is standing in the path of peace
And tell me, why are we arming the Israeli army with guns and tanks and bullets?
And if G-d is great and G-d is good, why can't he change the hearts of men?
Well, maybe G-d himself is lost and needs help
Maybe G-d himself he needs all of our help
Maybe G-d himself is lost and needs help
He's out upon the road to peace
Maybe G-d himself is lost and needs help
Maybe G-d himself he needs all of our help
And he's lost upon the road to peace
And he's lost upon the road to peace
Out upon the road to peace
It's not at all about the lyrics, genius. It's just a complete mismatch.
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Schnabel also concluded the Diving Bell and the Butterfly with a Waits song, so maybe it is becoming a signature for him.
I actually think it works perfectly.
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