'American Beauty' - Thomas Newman (from the 'plastic bag scene')

[leedumett444]

masterpiece. excellent scene in the film, and excellent score.

[tradmusicaddict]

Do you ever feel, like a plastic bag?

[rmdeezy]

Wow...did that bag have strings attached to it? Or CGI? Looked fake

[Chvija1986]

This is one of the best scenes in American movies, I love this movie, its not "hollywood" shit

[ieva910]

of course this is anyother name ...

[ieva910]

how this song called ?

[leftwithoutadoubt]

so damn beautiful.



[Raflinger1]

The Sound is great !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SurrealSamuiTV]

its reminds me to the opening scene in FORREST GUMP, ..... the FORREST GUMP SCENE is definitly much more better,...... but this one is awesome too,...... and great musik !!!!

thankxxx

[JeremyTheWicked028]

@SurrealSamuiTV Why do people always have to compare? Personality begins when comparision ends.

[SurrealSamuiTV]

@JeremyTheWicked028

i dont know the answer to this question !!!

very warm and friendly regards from samui / thailand

♪

[Syfrum]

@JeremyTheWicked028 Why do people always have to believe there so deep and brooding. get over yourself. go cut your arms and leave the philosophy to the real intellects. Face!

[JeremyTheWicked028]

@Syfrum That was pretty nasty, man. I don't consider myself deep nor an intellect. I just think people shouldn't compare things all the time, and take them as they are. "Go cut your arms", jee, I wouldn't say that even to the person I would hate.

[PHOENIXSUNSPOT]

Gives me a lump in my throat everytime...

[kirstyisonfire]

so this is where katy perry got her inspiration from!

[ludedood99]

Thegger10 has the right idea! Watching it too

[thegger100]

two words: family guy

[BlueRockGoth]

We did this scene for our film music topic in Music, and I just started crying because of this piece of music. I love it, its so beautiful.

[Bbqkick]

This film must be amazing...

[sportsman786]

@Bbqkick its name is American Beauty... it was the best motion picture.

[JellyPuffys]

İs that the plastic bag at news!

[HollyBee9000]

It's the kid's words that move me. There really is a life to every piece of this planet. Times when things happened, times when nothing did. When I think about that, I feel free, and not so alone.

[infinitelimitation]

everything has such deep meaning and a story behind it

[Nerwik]

Behold this, for it is a plastic bag.

[elliekinzz1]

this is called 'any other name' ..?

[sportsman786]

@elliekinzz1 yes... its the any other name from Thomas Newman.

[whiterabbit703]

same music as the green mile

[JuxTPosition]

@whiterabbit703 Same composer for sure, Thomas Newman.

[SurrealSamuiTV]

@whiterabbit703

.... great great movie THE GREEN MILE, a Masterpiece........

[Koba4329]

the point in your life when you feel like... everything just stops.

[SuperDictionar]

This is beautiful.

[haloreach321]

and yet we are now banning plastic bags...

[juanda654]

:)



[meoldmucka123]

simply the most beautiful piece of music i have ever listened to.. the only song that never stops giving me goosebumps

[Filogelos]

"And this bag was just dancing with me, like a little kid begging me to play with it, for fifteen minutes." or a ninja, trolling you like a boss

[EmmaLiex]

I love his way of looking at the world... He finds such beauty in such simplicity <3

[iimarinero]

This shit is so fucking hipster...

[lorepga]

sublime,me encanta la musica con esa escena comun pero con belleza..........<3<3<3<3<3

[bLitz72]

PRESS THE SNOWFLAKE YOUTUBE ICON WHILE WATCHING THIS.

[TheSimonStarling]

Yes. Truly, yes.

[thegger100]

@kmpa13 family guy nice

[bLitz72]

Ahhh, So that's where my Condom went!

[phelanconor030]

the only thing about this video thats beautiful is the bag

[TakeYouToSchool]

@phelanconor030

i think that anything can be beautiful with the right eye/standpoint.

i put myself in the position of the plastic bag, the wind carries me and i dance and cant do anything about it.

metaphorically the breeze is the ones who are filled with greed, those who bleed green and try to tear down all the trees.

[CRABCRUNCHERZ]

thumbs up if =3 brought you here



[DJSTRS2010]

It's just some trash blowing in the wind ! Do you know how complicated your circulatory system is?!

[MegaOrwell1984]

The funny thing is that the only way to get the plastic bag to move like that was to have to use two crew members out of shot with leaf blowers.

[JamenRemen42]

omg hhaha family guy :*

[Koba4329]

for all those trolls out there or people who generally don't understand, its not about how complicated it is, or something being beautiful. its about the simplicity of this bag being tossed around in the wind... its simple happens everyday, but if you just take a second and look at these 'simple' things it makes you think, about what you may ask... well i don't know depends on who you are and your beliefs... for me reminds me about the things i have and how lucky i am to have it.

[ohedd]

What the fuck is this? 3 minutes of a fucking plastic bag flying aroud and people go an about "beauty" and "god looking back at us". What am I missing here?

[DogsneedpIeasuretoo]

*Bag slams against random person face*

[kmpa13]

"it's a plastic bag! Do you know how complicated your circulatory system is?!!"

[greenbrae7]

@kmpa13 You've made the same comment about this scene repeatedly. CLEVER? Anatomical fact isn't the agenda. An artistic, philosophical scene with a precious mood is created through melding Thomas Newman's insipirational composition (itself establishing a unique mood) with a young man sharing his thoughts and feelings with the girl he's falling for, a video in his darkened room, her tender kiss after his monologue and the sheer originality of a plastic bag instead of another soaring eagle.

[youdontknowxpand]

Hey, does this mean if I paint a normal black dot in a white piece of paper and call it "The darkness at the end of the tunnel" I can win millions of bucks!?

[KiKiNicole96]

@youdontknowxpand Probably, if you lived in Russia...

[Koba4329]

@youdontknowxpand tbh... probably

[Pufflon1991]

Wenn ich auch nur den ersten Anschlag höre steigen mir die Tränen in die Augen. Jedes Mal ein und dieselben Szenen die mir vor den Augen schwirren und nie hat es ein Ende. Über manche Dinge kann man nicht hinwegkommen...

[videogamenostalgia]

This is the song that plays when I look at goatse

[DjMoMoValencia]

Thumbs up if RWJ brought you here !!

[AdamShifnal]

@DjMoMoValencia Already done it buddy! :]

[NicholasC713]

Katy Perry, stop that!

[AdamShifnal]

RayWilliamJohnson brought me here! First one to say it! :]

[SPvpDeath]

@AdamShifnal ur fuckin gay

[AdamShifnal]

@SPvpDeath Nice one kid, using homosexuality as an insult!

[T3hotherhalf]

@AdamShifnal second ^_^



[carlosmessala]

"It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowing and there's this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it. Right? And this bag was just dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. That's the day I realized that there was this entire life behind things, and this incredibly benevolent force that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever. (...)"

[carlosmessala]

@carlosmessala "(...) Video's a poor excuse, I know. But it helps me remember... I need to remember... Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it, and my heart is just going to cave in."

It can sound silly... I don't care... but this movie touched my life, and exactly this part made me rethink too many things about the life and everything its around.

[Alex2149]

reminds me of halo

[lehaim37]

La mejor escena de la peli sin duda

[TheChicagoguy]

IT'S JUST SOME TRASH BLOWING IN THE WIND! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA

HOW COMPLICATED YOUR CIRCULATORY SYSTEM IS!

[agmr1256]

what is the meaning of this scene?

does it mean that this guy is so depressed that he finds his happiness through a plastic bag? or anything else?

i never understood this scene?

someone plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz explain.

[mmediate1]

@agmr1256 He explains it perfectly as he's playing it for Janie. Watch the movie again

[kitesurfer9999]

@agmr1256 the movement of a plastic bag on the wind is a perfect expression of divine beauty, he feels it in his heart:)

[ladylivia100]

@agmr1256

well..the plastic bag is an allegory for an emotion..meaning freedom,and an adjustement between happiness and sorrow.

[TheBottleofsand]

One of the most beautiful scenes in the film.

[Music0ver]

Ok who stole god's ipod?



[rajicsasa]

pomaze mi da se setim

[xDistantDreamx]

@rajicsasa

uvijek...

[Cayden1986]

Holy crap, its a real life ghost!

[Ultermarto]

GRR WHAT IS THIS SONG ALREADY?

[JuxTPosition]

@Ultermarto You're joking, right? The name of the track is Track 8, 'American Beauty', from the American Beauty: Original Motion Picture Score.

[Ultermarto]

@JuxTPosition No, I've been looking for it for ages. Why would I be joking?

[JuxTPosition]

@Ultermarto Because the description for the video already gives you the information.

[Ultermarto]

@JuxTPosition Dammit, I swear i looked. I always look. Sorry.

[JuxTPosition]

@Ultermarto Not a problem. Still happy to answer your query about which song it is!

[EvolutionXEvolving]

@Ultermarto...

This piece is called "Any Other Name" composed and played by Thomas Newman, who wrote the entire musical score for American Beauty. Thomas Newman also wrote the musical score for "The Shawshank Redemption" and "Road to Perdition". Happy now? ( : o )

[JuxTPosition]

@EvolutionXEvolving No, THIS piece is called "American Beauty". "Any Other Name" is the piece playing at the END of the film. Common mistake, as they do sound very similar.

[randomite88]

@Ultermarto The piece is called "Any other name" by Thomas Newman

[professorsanch1987]

the transition in strings from 1.35 to 1.42 gives me goosebumps. this easily is one of the best compositions i've heard.

[energeez]

I need to remember.

[MrJJBLOOD]

Para ti guapa....

[KalinaMatata]

does anyone else think of finding nemo when they hear this?

[JuxTPosition]

@KalinaMatata Not surprising, as Thomas Newman also composed the Finding Nemo score: watch?v=qY_zoOikQB0

[RainFanable]

"Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it, and my heart is just going to cave in..."

[KikinBcN]

Nice sad music for one of the best films of ever.

[kesykess]

BrazilianMaster I'm not American and love the plastic bag. Maybe you should think a little deeper what the meaning of the video is...and yes a women dancing naked is absolutely beautiful, but nothing special. this bag is something different :)

[flyforce16]

I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die. First of all, that one second isn't a second at all; it stretches on forever, like an ocean of time....for me, it was lying on my back at Boy Scout Camp, watching falling stars...and yellow leaves, from the maple trees that lined our street...Or my grandmother's hands, and the way her skin seemed like paper...and the first time I saw my cousin Tony's brand new Firebird. And Janie...and Janie.

[BrazilianMaster]

you americans are all SICK! how can you like a stupid plastic bag dancing? this is just trash! here in Manaus, my hometown, we think that a woman naked dancing is a way more interesting than a scum plastic bag dancing! you all freaks! Thats why God loves Brazil the most.

[greenbrae7]

@BrazilianMaster

This scene is in the in the context of a movie...

The statements in this scene are by a hypothetical character in the movie... who suffers from marijuana induced psychosis.

You write...

"Thats why God loves Brazil the most...."

Your comments make as much sense as my saying to you

If God loves Brazil the most....I suppose that's because you shoot street children in Rio.

[BrazilianMaster]

@grenbrae7 and who cares about the context of the movie? The comments here are ALL stupid declarations of love about a DAMN BAG! I am just looking for American Beauty in youtube, I expected big tits or woman naked licking something but I found a BAG! DAMN IT! Look who's talking! An Australian! You Australians are just a forgotten colony by the United Kingdom, you still serves the queen you cunt You stop to shoot kangaroos on the head and raping Aboriginal children before criticizing my country!

[greenbrae7]

@ Brazilian mouse. Hey moron thanks for proving your stupidity. You are so ignorant & uneducated you don't even understand metaphorical analyses. You didn't even know American Beauty is a movie, nor are you aware that the men raping aboriginal children are aboriginal men, usually their drunken fathers. This has gone on for millenia in their "culture". Kangaroos are in such plague proprtion they compete with cattle for grazing land. Some people eat the meat and there is a large export market.

[greenbrae7]

@Brazilian Mousekateer. I am of European descent. I don't serve any Monarch.

Queen Elizabeth does not rule Australia, nor The United Kingdom. The British monarchy is a traditional RELIC, and has been since 1689.

Portugal only became a republic after October 5, 1910 when King Dom Manuel II fled to England. Those who overthrew him set up the first republic. Hey loser, if you want to wank over porn it's unlimited on the web. Anyone with a brain knows that. Ei cabra; Salve a Amazônia! CUNT

[Shenmooey]

Sometimes you don't know what you got till it's gone :-(

[sanketrocksss]

this music makes me cry...and amazing thing is I dont know y......

[GamerBoy522]

I see how it is beauty, and I see how it is not.

[bluenightwings]

@GamerBoy522 This is probable the most right answer

[KellRoy8]

"And here I am, or at least an empty shell of my body, while my mind is carried away by this plastic bag.."

[locust]

@KellRoy8 wow beautiful. fight club is a bit like this movie.. brings a tear to my eye

[ElizabethR1558]

Thanks for uploading this, I'm going to put it onto my phone so I can listen and relax when I've got insomnia and can't settle.

[gudguy25]

I got shivers down my spine...

[MRsuperSexyNumberOne]

when he says 'sometimes i feel like there is so much beauty in the world i feel like i cant take it' i get that very feeling listening to this. you feel like your chest is getting too big for your body and you know at that point....how lucky you are to be alive

[tricksterhuaun]

Give to that plastic bag an oscar.

that scene from the movie was the most beautiful thing i've ever seen.

[RocBoyzDealer]

when i watch this and hear it at the same time it brings be to peace with myself and makes me forgive enyone who ever did me wrong or hurt me and makes me just appricate life that little bit more what a world we live in shame we all dont get along now just imagine that !

[vanutra]

When you see something like that, it's like God is looking right at you, just for a second. And if you're careful, you can look right back.

and what do you see?

Beauty. 

[ActionSmaction]

i just listened to this... and i have never felt so, meaningful...

[MrNapoleon33]

<3

[Netrion13]

remember! they didn't hear the piano, but they cried,too

[notdemocratic]

why is something so simple seem to make me shed tears?

[tigremontes1]

doesnt this come out in another movie??

[fabeskates]

i......love....everything.

[joaofernandesist]

in spite of all there's so much beauty in the world still...thank goodness

[filikix11]

........ do you ever feel like a plastic bag?

[joaofernandesist]

@filikix11 good question;in a good way I gess there's nothing wrong in feeling like dancing together with the elements...they often invite us...

[bytheblueriver]

@filikix11 I do.

[inevaeportfolio]

@filikix11 all the time

[ladylivia100]

@filikix11

yes useless and lacked of freedom..a trivial human

[spaceframe123]

@filikix11 nope, chuck testa.

[MrMoozic]

@filikix11 I feel more like a condom sometimes

[XJDesigns1]

@filikix11 why do i think about Katy Perry when reading your comment?

[SudsontheRoof]

Great piece. Reminds me of some of Josh Kramer's music on his Only Memories album. Very introspective.

[AllHasBeenTaken]

Nice.Thanks.