Dark City Soundtrack 01 - Sway

[allaboutthebeats1]

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[zumba6]

Damn this voice...

[stardingo747]

Modern New York may be the most "cutting edge" metropolis in the world, but it has lost its gangster era Jazz club charm.

[stardingo747]

New York has lost its charm. There is something 20's and 30's New York had, that modern new york doesn't. I don't know; the city used to have a greater sense of neighborliness, in a given neighborhood everybody knew everybody, now, everyone is as cold and distant as anywhere in america, that unique warmth New York USED to have is gone. Also, New York's famous neighborhoods have lost their soul.

[Hontaish]

@stardingo747 Yeah, population growth does that.

[stardingo747]

@Supenmanu tell me, if you could travel back in time to the 20's and 30's what would you be? Gangster or Noir hard boiled New York cop from the 20's? Man EVEN THE COPS had a sense of style. There is something about the 1920's New York detective, that even modern New York cops don't have. Speaking of Star Trek TNG, hey, what about Piccard and his character Dixon Hill? Who DOESN'T want to play a noir detective? What man doesn't?

[stardingo747]

@Supenmanu can you blame William T. Riker of Star Trek TNG for liking that era so much? He even fell in love with what's her face Minuet a sulty woman from that era. Well, sultry by star trek standards. Beside the point; hot women, look even hotter in 1920's dress man, you just wanna rip off their panties if they're dressed like that, fuck the consequences. I think I may have been a mobster in a past life, could be the reason I make fun of Italians so much.

[CricketSayWhat]

first time listening to this, I like it.

[stardingo747]

and, seriously, guidos of New York, what the fuck happened to you?

even the hoods of the 20's had more class than current generations of Italians! Yeah, New York was crooked in the 20's, but it had more class than it does now.

[stardingo747]

honest to god I wish time machines existed; I DESPERATELY, and I mean DESPERATELY want to be a time tourist. I want to visit 1920's New York. Don't know why; I wish I could have experienced New York in the 20's.

[stardingo747]

yeah, yeah yeah, I know, it was invented elsewhere but it was in fact New York, which gave Jazz and Blues their "chic" image.

[stardingo747]

Jazz is the only good thing to come out of New York. I'll grant the city that.

[Magnolia296]

Really great film. Rufus Sewell, Jennifer Connelly, Kiefer Sutherland, William Hurt were great. The 90's had so many overlooked & underrated SCI-FI films - this one, FutureSport, The Time Shifters, Virtuosity, Tha Lawnmower Man, Alien 3, Space Truckers, Strange Days, The Arrival, Mimic, The Apocalypse (1997), Virus, RoboCop 2, Them, Body Snatchers, eXistenZ, Sphere, Judge Dredd, Demolition Man, Anaconda, The Shadow Men etc

[FrameCatcher04]

When i saw this scene i had to tell someone about it!

[popmihai2000]

i loved jennifer connelly's voice......

[Thumbelina105]

LOL I haven't seen this movie in sooo LONG!!! lol omgs lol Love it :D

[TheAltair4]

Brilliant Sci-Fi fantasy classic! It's definitely up there with the likes of Blade Runner and Fritz Lang's Metropolis, which were very obviously huge inspirations for it.

[Johnlindsey289]

@TheAltair4

Don't forget City of Lost Children and Brazil! Do you think the Strangers look like Voldermort and Pinhead without the pins?

[TheAltair4]

@Johnlindsey289 I've always thought they sort of resembled Nosferatu myself, only without the long nails, fangs and pointy ears, but they do share a certain similarity to Voldemort and the Cenobites as well.

[Johnlindsey289]

@TheAltair4

What did you think of Inception? Very similar to this one

[TheAltair4]

@Johnlindsey289 Inception was an interesting film but i much prefer Dark City as it's much more exciting and  imaginative overall. Jennifer Connelly was smokin hot in it too.

[Johnlindsey289]

Loved this movie when it hit March of 1998 when i was 16 because i was and still am a Sci-fi obsessed person for all my life since i was a kid watching Star Wars and Star Trek movies. This blew me out of my chair in the theater and predated The Matrix to Inception, both of those are great but this one is even better yet sadly underrated.

[latinoheat300]

Sorry if it's been asked before, but is there a full length version of Connelly's Director's Cut performance?

[MrMovieDen]

I have just bought the film, mainly becouse of the cool cover of the film. I think it look cool.

[stardingo747]

this makes me want to play Bioshock.

[stardingo747]

I would have loved to have visited 1920's New York, and later on in the 30's, depression and all. That is when the city was at its peak, ironically enough, when the mob owned it. Those black hand and Jewish hoods may have been vicious turds, but at least they had taste.

[stardingo747]

Unwritten New York City rule number 1; never take a girl to a Jazz club, unless its serious. Don't know why I think that, I just do. I just think its a good way to show a girl you've got class if you have the money.

[Warcry667]

Lol yeah @stardingo747 but i fucking love a classic and this is just fucking great

[Johnlindsey289]

Loved Dark City since i was 16 in 1998 when i saw it in a theater, this scene where Connelly sings it reminded me of Jessica Rabbit in live action somehow.

[CalamityCain]

The scene in which Jennifer Connelly performed "Sway" was so strong. She was very wicked, in an attractive, old fashioned, film noir style. Too bad she didn't perform the whole song... *sigh*

But Anita Kelsey does an awesome performance as well. I know, the original's by Dean Martin, but I really think this song suits a throaty, yet feminine voice even more. Love it!

5/5* & faved! Thanks for the upload =)

[darckreigns]

so cute

[wildxochild]

i really really cant get this song outo f my head

it was beautiful when jennifer performed this

awesome but weird movie:)

[gamespy1302]

no better movie to imagine imo :D

[HunterSThompsonFan]

I loved Dark City and when I bought the soundtrack and heard this I hoped she would have a whole album with this kind of stuff but she only recorded this and 1000 Eyes for the film. Shame says I.

[johnnypneumonic]

ya the soundtrack does sound different.  still good though.

[BladeCaptain]

Actualy, this is from the sound trak release... watch to movie and listen to this, its a diffrent voice... honestly, it seems that in the movie that its indeed Jen Singing... but since she only sang a 30 second clip, it wasnt enough to put it on the sound trak for sale.

[fatskateman]

I really thought this was Jennifer singing. I was really impressed...wow is there nothing she can't do. I feel let down alittle knowing it wasn't her. Love this song and this version.

[OrcDragon65]

That was my reaction too. You have to admitt that scene was beautiful, there was definately something Classic about her in that movie, just look at her outfits during that entire movie.

[tslime]

The director's cut restores the scene to jennifer connoly's actual voice.

[fatskateman]

how did she do with it.

[tslime]

yeah, she nails it - it's one of those times where it adds character to not be perfect.

[stardingo747]

for some odd reason this makes me think of a hot chick in a night dress, and a bunch of depressed with sad expressions well dressed black dudes in the background with musical instruments, and second hand smoke floating around in the room.

[DarkCityMusic]

DITTO!

[stardingo747]

oh yeah, I have a beef with you I need to settle; WHERE THE HELL IS "RUN AROUND LOVER?!?"

[stardingo747]

delete these two replies I found it; its "night with a thousand eyes," sorry.

[TheDymed]

@stardingo747 I swear I had a dream just like that =D

[requiemrave]

@stardingo747 Amen.

[stardingo747]

@requiemrave I forgot the sultry date in the 1930's dress, with one eye covered by her hair, which was the style at the time. You wanna guarantee a date will put out? Take her to a jazz club.....

[Supenmanu]

@stardingo747: Ditto me too... LOL... i wonder why THAT might be (-: Small world! (-;

[stardingo747]

@Supenmanu my dream is to make a video game about an immortal, very noir, like this movie. And, man, noir is not noir without a 1920's and 30's Jazz club. Man I wish I wish I WISH I could have experienced 1920's New York.

[k0nt3xtus]

maybe the potentiol is there

[stardingo747]

100 years from now, people will see this movie the way the classic "Metropolis" is seen now. Our generation does not apreciate it, at least the majority, but in 100 years this will be HUGE with movie buffs.

[nds87]

I loved it since i saw it as a kid when i was 11. great movie then and i can still watch it 10 years later and it has aged like fine wine. The theme's are still strong as is the plot and cinematography. Sleep now.

[JunmaiShu]

Much of the blame falls to how the film was marketed. I gained a lot of respect for Roger Ebert after hearing his take on this masterpiece. I don't usually put any value into mainstream media reviews but I realized this was a guy that knew good cinema when he saw it. It's a very powerful film and one of my favorites.

A re-release would be so awesome. The world would appreciate it more now.

[stardingo747]

@JunmaiShu Proyas ran afoul Hollywood producers because he did not understand how things work in that industry. Hollywood isn't about art, its about money, and Proyas I've heard is a screamer; he has a nasty temper, and does not like it when people change his work. His refusal to bend over for producers, pretty much got him ran out of town into obscurity doing shit films that were beneath his skills.

[JunmaiShu]

I can buy that, and I'll bet he's not the first one, nor the last. Perhaps if Hollywood would re-focus on the artistic process, the money would be a direct result? Or perhaps they're right... most people these days do just want to mindlessly stare at T&A and watch car chases. If that's the case then innovators like Proyas really have no place in the industry anymore.

[stardingo747]

@JunmaiShu he never had a place to start with; because he received his film creds in Australia, which is dominated by European filming conventions, between his foul temper, and Hollywood's system, the two were not compatible.

[Johnlindsey289]

@JunmaiShu

What about Christopher Nolan?

[Knutmoses]

Very nice Tango. I love it! *g*