Welcome to THE NEEDLE DROP - where Dirty Soup Music Supervisors reveal their all-time favourite onscreen musical moments.
What about Gary Jules' melancholic version of Mad World in Donnie Darko, Dean Stockton's lip-synching to Roy Orbison's In Dreams in Blue Velvet or Ride of the Valkyries in Apocalypse Now? We know you'll have your top picks, and the list is endless!
First up: Master Music Supervisor Ian Neil on why he dropped Lou Reed's The Gun into Guy Ritchie's RocknRolla.
I.N - For this scene where Johnny Quid is hitting on a crack pipe and going into a state of unconsciousness, we needed something trippy. I was floating some cool artists on the temp edit and said we should look at Lou. Guy Ritchie asked me to find a track that was not overused. The Gun fitted that brief perfectly, and even though it was a dark drug scene, Lou was not opposed to the use, and so it was done. "You see, Johnny, the crackhead, knows that a rocker is worth more dead than alive…silly world, innit?"
Read Ian’s full bio HERE