You all know the song. That hoary old beast you'll never get away from, requested by at least one original thinker at every concert you've ever been to. Even if you can't even pronounce Lynyrd Skynyrd you'll know the opening lines to Free Bird.
If I leave here tomorrow
Would you still remember me?
For I must be traveling on now
'Cause there's too many places I've got to see
But when you hear the song used at the end of The Devil's Rejects.....oh man.
Rob Zombie's story of a killer family fleeing the police is a gruelling watch about awful people doing horrifying things. A despicable trio that you'll right hate from the off but such is the power of music that you'll still have an emotional reaction to their ending and it won't be glee, the emotion you'd expect. They're hurting, bleeding, dying. It's the first time in the film we get to see them as weak, frail humans. They've killed their way across the state but after they are captured and tortured by a sheriff even more vicious than them they finally see how the end is coming. There's no escape and as Ronnie Van Zant's vocals soar and Allen Collins & Gary Rossington's chugging riff kick in our trio decide to end it all.
Death by cop soundtracked by a glorious slice of Southern fried rock makes for a wicked pairing of sound and vision.
Previous pairings
Beetlejuice
Hard Boiled
8 mile
Wheels On Meals
The Office (UK)
Do The Right Thing
Se7en
Mad Men
The Colour Of Money
Rules Of Attraction
8 mile
Wheels On Meals
The Office (UK)
Do The Right Thing
Se7en
Mad Men
The Colour Of Money
Rules Of Attraction
Jackie Brown
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
Deliverance
The Omen
Copland
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
The Mission
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
Deliverance
The Omen
Copland
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
The Mission
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