With regards to directors who know how to place music in movies, Quentin Tarantino is right up there on the top of my list. Martin Scorsese might be number one when it comes to using recorded music. As far as scores to films, that’s an entirely different ballgame. While his best choice of music for possibly any scene in any movie he’s ever done is Steeler’s Wheel’s “Stuck in the Middle with You” during the Michael Madsen torture scene in Reservoir Dogs, you have to hand it to Urge Overkill’s remake of “Girl You’ll Be a Woman Soon” during the overdose scene in Pulp Fiction as being way up there in Tarantino films.
I’m pretty sure no one expected that track to come on during what’s one of the best scenes in the movie. Not only that I’m pretty sure people had no clue that this was originally a Neil Diamond song that as released in 1967. However the version by Urge Overkill is way “cooler” and incredibly appropriate for this scene. While it may seem random, I think it speaks to the transformation of the character moving from one state to a heroin induced drug overdose. Maybe I’m reading into it too much but that’s how I feel.
Anyway, it’s a great use of music. Check out the scene and relive it below:
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