I went to a wedding over the weekend and during the ceremony someone sang Ave Maria. This immediately and inappropriately brought to mind several TV and movie scenes of people getting whacked. Wtf?! I thought. Here I am at church, at a wedding no less, and I'm reminded of Hollywood murder scenes?
I was a little embarrassed but it led me to thinking. And that's always dangerous for me. I wondered, "What was the first movie Hollywood used Ave Maria to illustrate a hit scene with?" I gotta be honest, Google let me down on this one.
This is also embarrassing: I don't really know my Godfather Trilogy trivia all that well. I mean, I'm assuming the first scene this came from was from one of the Godfather movies. I've seen the movies but it was a long time ago. Now get ready for some blasphemy: They weren't my favorite movies. I know how much people love them, but I was never able to get into them.
I tried googling (it's ok to not capitalize it when you use it as a verb) "ave maria godfather", "ave maria hit scene", "movie scenes set to ave maria" and I cannot get a specific scene from the Godfather movies! Here's a fact about me: I HATE not being able to find something I'm looking for. Hell, I hate not being able to find something my wife is looking for! If somebody asks me to find something, then dammit, I'm gonna find it!
But alas, it didn't happen. Now, what I could have done was just watch the trilogy, but like I said I didn't like it. I'm not sitting through possibly eight hours of cinema I don't like to find a scene which may or may not exist. Just not gonna happen.
Instead of lamenting the loss, though, let us celebrate what I DID find!
Close match number 1:
This is just a fan vid. Not from the actual movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRTkRdeO33o
Close match number 2:
This is from Modern Family. Not the most on-topic but definitely the funniest!
Close match number 3:
This is the Hitman movie trailer. The franchise also added to the Hitman: Absolution game trailer, but I thought this one was better. Timothy Olyphant (Raylen Givens from Justified) with a bald head! Bald is beautiful!
As I usually do, I ask for feed back. What would you like to see on my page? What questions would you like answered? And for the love of God, what Godfather scene did they play that song to cause I'm not watching it again!
Ave Maria didn't appear in any of the Godfather movies.
ReplyDeleteAll the music for all 3 movies was composed by Coppola's father who also made a cameo playing the piano during the montage scene when the family went to the mattresses after Michael shot Sollozo and the cop.
Good to know. It must have been put in a trailer.
ReplyDeleteCould you be thinking of Lars von trier's priolog of antichrist? It's not ave Maria but close
ReplyDeleteI knew the lady who sang Ave Maria "in the Godfather movie." Could this scene have been removed?
ReplyDeleteI knew the lady who sang Ave Maria "in the Godfather movie." Could the scene have been removed?
ReplyDeleteI know this is an old post but I came across it when I too, was searching for this scene, I have watched it so I know it exists but I cannot find it again- so frustrating!
ReplyDeleteNeedful Things by Stephen King
ReplyDeleteI have never heard it in the Trilogy that I have at home. I play 'Ave Maria" on the Classical Guitar. However, was surprised to have someone comment that it was in The Godfather....Never thought it was as I relate to the song very emotionally. But the comment has got me googling....that got me here...No one has seen the where the song is in the Trilogy...no one can show it....Still looking....even the person commenting cannot tell where it is....strange...enough to conclude it is not there in the trilogy...
ReplyDeleteWas it not good fellas when instead of getting turned into a made man the guy gets whacked and buried for taking someone out
ReplyDeleteWell, we are no longer 2013 so it's a easy one to answer these days...
ReplyDeleteHere you go!
https://m.imdb.com/list/ls560461566/