Belle and Sebastian’s “The Boy with the Arab Strap,” which I wrote about here, was featured, as well as Spoon’s “The Infinite Pet,” The Black Lips’ “Veni Vidi Vici,” and “The Music” by Paper Route. The entire track listing of the soundtrack is below, but there are a number of songs that were featured in the movie which were not on the soundtrack. The soundtrack fully captures the “hipness” and offbeat postmodernism that (500) Days of Summer so embodies. More important though, instead of just being thrown into the movie randomly, these songs were employed extremely effectively, enhancing the emotionality of a number of scenes. It featured a soundtrack filled with the best that the indie rock, alternative rock and folk rock genres have to offer. It starred Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Tom, a hopeless romantic, and Zooey Deschanel as the oft-distant Summer. Very witty, often quite humorous, and paced extremely well, the film was lauded by critics and landed on a number of “Top Ten” year-end lists of 2009. (500) Days of Summer is a quirky, clever, and incredibly honest romantic comedy that was released in the summer of 2009. In (500) Days of Summer, the music is presented as non-diegetic but it still effectively serves the filmmaker’s goals. In the last segment of Music in the Movies, I focused on Quentin Tarantino’s use of music and his penchant for presenting songs as diegetic sounds.
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