Few things can stop a cinema audience in their tracks than an attention-grabbing scene, and few snatch viewers’ breath away with edge-of-the-seat power quite like some masterful use of a good piece of music. Whether its a classic rock track used to punctuate a character’s mindset, or simply a smart use of juxtaposition between celluloid and its soundtrack, here we run through a breakdown of the songs that broke down the movies they feature in – in the most brilliant and memorable ways.
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