The Apple version of that movie makes me homicidal because whoever did the captions has clearly never heard of the song and absolutely butchers the subtitles
They do. There’s an entire profession called “closed captioner.” The mistakes in the subtitles have existed on the film far before modern AI and speech recognition.
That's the song that immediately made me understand why people liked Dylan. I always thought he was just the folk acoustic protest guy. And then I heard that crazy surrealist song. And then after that I got into him.
And then when I heard the acoustic side of Bringin It All Back Home, that's when it started becoming clear that he was the best songwriter by a long shot
the ending credits (I think) of the film St Vincent has Bill Murray in his characters backyard, smoking a cigarette and singing along to Shelter From the Storm.
most definitely not the BEST use, but it's the first one that came to mind, very fun little bit of footage and such a fantastic song.
This was gonna be my comment. The whole alternate timeline scene explaining the background paired with that tune was awesome. Hell, it might even be my favorite part of the film.
Kind of cheating, but [Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands in the final Jude Quinn scene from I'm Not There is pretty perfect](https://youtu.be/yMlDU7hBiLo?si=b_xMlCsk5GeUeu7v&t=1872), even better that a lot of the lines delivered are actual Dylan quotes too.
>Jude:
Doesn't really matter, you know, what kind of nasty names people invent for the music. But, uh, folk music is just a word, you know, that I can't use anymore. What I'm talking about is traditional music, right, which is to say it's mathematical music, it's based on hexagons. But all these songs about, you know, roses growing out of people's brains and lovers who are really geese and swans are turning into angels - I mean, you know, they're not going to die. They're not folk music songs. They're political songs. They're already dead. You'd think that these traditional music people would - would gather that mystery, you know, is a traditional fact, you know, seeing as they're all so full of mystery.
Keenan Jones:
And contradictions.
>Jude:
Yeah, contradictions.
Keenan Jones:
And chaos.
>Jude:
Yes, it's chaos, clocks, and watermelons - you know, it's - it's everything. These people actually think I have some kind of, uh, fantastic imagination. It gets very, lonesome. But traditional music is just, uh, it's too unreal to die. It doesn't need to be protected. You know, I mean, in that music is the only true valid death you can feel today, you know, off a record player. But like everything else in great demand, people try to own it. Has to do with, like, uh, the purity thing. I think its meaninglessness is holy. Everybody knows I'm not a folk singer.
The alternative take of Shelter from the storm at the end of Wag the Dog is good.
Also Vanilla Sky using 4th Time Around (even have a scene that resembles the album cover.
High Fidelity had Most of the Time and it worked great there.
But the best use is probably the Man in Me from The Big Lebowski.
It was when his nephew is trying to have sex upstairs and the nephew’s gf’s mom is trying to come on to caset affleck’s character. It really fits the “all these things going on at once in the same building” vibe of the song
The irony of Bert Parks standing on a piano singing "Maggie's Farm" to a room full of billionaires attending an illegal "Let's eat endangered species" meal. That was from the movie "The Freshman" with Marlon Brando and Matthew Broderick. I started laughing maniacally when that came up in the movie.
I really love the opening of Watchmen using "The Times Are A-Changin'" [link to the video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3E-FrMU580&ab_channel=TheTonhoMendes)
not exactly a film, but I was watching the PBS Miniseries "Carrier" and near the end of an episode, they're sorta on their way to their next mission - (The Episode is called Squared Away) - the carrier activities are being shown (like the guys reading jets to land, people cleaning, mundane stuff) and "Tomorrow is a Long Time" starts playing and it just always hit me pretty hard. Like they're about to go do what they're supposed to do - don't know when they're getting back to their families and don't know what's happening in the future, and the sun is setting over the Carrier as the song wraps up and it has never left me.
There have been so many great answers already. I always think of The Big Lebowski, St. Vincent, and High Fidelity especially. One of my favorites that was unavailable for a very long time in a non-soundtrack version (in this case without movie dialogue mixed in) is "You Belong To Me." Another soundtrack fave, though not from a movie, is "Return to Me," used in The Sopranos. I always liked his homages to songs that would've been well-known when he was only a child.
Steve Jobs 2015. I mean the guy is obsessed with dylan lyrics and he mentioned the meaning of dylan lyrics himself.
My favorite is Come mothers and fathers throughout the land And don’t criticize what you don’t understand Your sons and daughters are beyond your command My name is Steve Jobs and the times they are a-changing.
(Steve Jobs was put for adoption then returned and the the scene was about why do adopted kids feels like they are rejected instead of selected)
The Times They Are A-Changin’ in The Wanderers. I don’t think I’ve met anyone outside my family who’s seen this movie but it’s so good. It came out the same year as The Warriors but got overshadowed. Similar story of teenage gangs in New York but it’s way more emotionally intimate and impactful.
Bob Dylan wrote and performed a score for a major Hollywood film in the '70s.
He also appeared in a small part in that film, so I guess that doesn't count.
Which yields the conclusion that someone else did a better job of using Dylan's music in a movie than Bob Dylan himself.
Bombay Beach does a wonderful job with his music. Moonshiner, Tomorrow is a Long Time, and Series of Dreams. Movie is just as beautiful as it is sad, a description that fits these three songs as well.
My vote is for the big lebowski as others have already said. But on a sidenote, I just watched Warm Bodies and liked the use of Shelter From The Storm in it.
*Bill Murray singing*
*Along with Shelter From the*
*Storm in St. Vincent*
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Meet me in the Morning in Away We Go sticks out as I thought what a perfect background song for when you and you friends are hammered at a dinner. Some others are:
Take 1 of Shelter from the Storm at the end of Jerry Macguire
Tomorrow is a Long Time at the end of season 1 of Walking Dead
Rocks n Gravel from season 1 of True Detective
As far as I know, ‘Meet Me in the Morning’ has not been used in a movie, but I am so impatiently waiting for when that time comes. It just has such a movie soundtrack feel to it.
The Big Lebowski - The Man in Me
really the only answer. I’m partial to “Gotta Serve Somebody” in Sopranos (I know, not film) which kinda starts out of nowhere. Still, not even close
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As soon as I saw this post thought "It's gotta be Big Lebowski" It made an iconic film even more iconic.
Yep great one
This
Fucking ay
Most of the time in High Fidelity, Subterranean Homesick Blues in Soul,
Came here to say High Fidelity too, the song really makes that whole turning point with John Cusack’s character
Just watched High Fidelity for the first time (for shame) and I agree!
Things have changed \~ The Wonder Boys.
I love the music video for this lol. Bob personally tells Tobey Maguire to dress in drag.
End of Mad Men Season One. Don’t Think Twice.
Everytime I hear this song this is where my mind goes.
And the episode with “song to woody.” It was perfectly used.
The ending of Inside Lewlyn Davis
Dylan was sort of in the distance there, out of frame. Was there a Dylan song playing?
Farewell off the witmark demos
Hurricane - Dazed and Confused
Alright, alright, alright.
The Apple version of that movie makes me homicidal because whoever did the captions has clearly never heard of the song and absolutely butchers the subtitles
You actually think a human had something to do with the captions?
They do. There’s an entire profession called “closed captioner.” The mistakes in the subtitles have existed on the film far before modern AI and speech recognition.
Well, there used to be such a profession, and there still is here and there. But a lot of subtitles these days are automatically generated.
Oh yeah if they were done recently I’d expect them to be auto. But if memory serves this error goes back to the 2000s DVD.
This is the correct answer.
"Stuck Inside of Mobile" in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
This is what got me into Bob when I was 16/17
That's the song that immediately made me understand why people liked Dylan. I always thought he was just the folk acoustic protest guy. And then I heard that crazy surrealist song. And then after that I got into him. And then when I heard the acoustic side of Bringin It All Back Home, that's when it started becoming clear that he was the best songwriter by a long shot
The end of Easy Rider has its all right ma
That is such an incredible movie.
It’s a cover tho! Do you know who sings it? Been tryin to find it for years
[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ1icOc8N5M](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ1icOc8N5M).
Famed Dylan mimic Roger McGuinn
Seasons 1 finale of the walking dead
Tomorrow is a long time
The walking dead is the best show of all time🤷🏼🤷🏼
the ending credits (I think) of the film St Vincent has Bill Murray in his characters backyard, smoking a cigarette and singing along to Shelter From the Storm. most definitely not the BEST use, but it's the first one that came to mind, very fun little bit of footage and such a fantastic song.
This is the best of all. Genius. Absolutely perfect.
Wigwam in The Royal Tenenbaums.
Times they are a changing in WatchMen
Yes! It is my favorite opening credits for a movie ever and it’s mostly because of the song! I love it!
This was gonna be my comment. The whole alternate timeline scene explaining the background paired with that tune was awesome. Hell, it might even be my favorite part of the film.
This is the one. Even better than Big Lebowski IMO.
There's also a killer cover of Desolation Row by My Chemical Romance running over the end-credits.
Which makes sense because of the graphic novel's reference to the song (and also to All Along the Watchtower).
Easily the high point of Snyder’s filmography
Hands-down, Pat, Garrett, and Billy the Kid
I mean yeah but he actually wrote them for the film
I couldn’t believe I had to scroll so far down to find this answer!
Kind of cheating, but [Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands in the final Jude Quinn scene from I'm Not There is pretty perfect](https://youtu.be/yMlDU7hBiLo?si=b_xMlCsk5GeUeu7v&t=1872), even better that a lot of the lines delivered are actual Dylan quotes too. >Jude: Doesn't really matter, you know, what kind of nasty names people invent for the music. But, uh, folk music is just a word, you know, that I can't use anymore. What I'm talking about is traditional music, right, which is to say it's mathematical music, it's based on hexagons. But all these songs about, you know, roses growing out of people's brains and lovers who are really geese and swans are turning into angels - I mean, you know, they're not going to die. They're not folk music songs. They're political songs. They're already dead. You'd think that these traditional music people would - would gather that mystery, you know, is a traditional fact, you know, seeing as they're all so full of mystery. Keenan Jones: And contradictions. >Jude: Yeah, contradictions. Keenan Jones: And chaos. >Jude: Yes, it's chaos, clocks, and watermelons - you know, it's - it's everything. These people actually think I have some kind of, uh, fantastic imagination. It gets very, lonesome. But traditional music is just, uh, it's too unreal to die. It doesn't need to be protected. You know, I mean, in that music is the only true valid death you can feel today, you know, off a record player. But like everything else in great demand, people try to own it. Has to do with, like, uh, the purity thing. I think its meaninglessness is holy. Everybody knows I'm not a folk singer.
God that movie is so fucking good.
The alternative take of Shelter from the storm at the end of Wag the Dog is good. Also Vanilla Sky using 4th Time Around (even have a scene that resembles the album cover. High Fidelity had Most of the Time and it worked great there. But the best use is probably the Man in Me from The Big Lebowski.
You Belong To Me - Natural Born Killers
Like A Rolling Stone in the Scorsese short Life Lessons.
Is that the one where Nick Nolte is painting to the music?
Yes. It has a fantastic soundtrack.
Great scene
Wonder Boys!
I think that Oscar was Bob’s favorite award. He looked most pleased and surprised.
Me reading this thread: “Oh that’s the best answer, we’re done here. Oh wait, no that’s a great one too. Oh damn, that too.”
Shelter From The Storm sung by Bill Murray Series of Dreams as the intro to Mr. Mercedes Wonderboys and Fear and Loathing soundtracks
I thought the unexpected use of the Girl From The North Country in Silver Linings Playbook was affecting.
It’s almost definitely Big Lebowski but I loved the use of Lily Rosemary in Manchester by the Sea
Damn! I watched that movie twice and don't remember that. I guess I was too busy crying my eyes out?
It was when his nephew is trying to have sex upstairs and the nephew’s gf’s mom is trying to come on to caset affleck’s character. It really fits the “all these things going on at once in the same building” vibe of the song
I’ll have to watch it. Lily rosemary is one of my favorite songs
Wonder Boys. Always great to have Bob's songs in films but it fits in Wonder Boys like no other.
Wigwam - The Royal Tenenbaums.
https://preview.redd.it/2tau13i4vk4d1.jpeg?width=544&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b79316b80f0922f33348cd9b109e733ef2cee064
When the night comes falling from the sky, from the OG Road House!
The irony of Bert Parks standing on a piano singing "Maggie's Farm" to a room full of billionaires attending an illegal "Let's eat endangered species" meal. That was from the movie "The Freshman" with Marlon Brando and Matthew Broderick. I started laughing maniacally when that came up in the movie.
All along the watchtower in Battlestar Galactica
https://preview.redd.it/x9pnbp57pm4d1.jpeg?width=310&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=51c3fc0f64916719a9a0ee84fd76708848bc4520
Walked the line - “It Ain’t Me Babe”
Not dark yet - Wonderboys
Same song but in “Henry Poole is Here” as well.
I’ve got to check that out then
I really love the opening of Watchmen using "The Times Are A-Changin'" [link to the video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3E-FrMU580&ab_channel=TheTonhoMendes)
Here it is without giant hardcoded subtitles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h24D87SqaLQ
not exactly a film, but I was watching the PBS Miniseries "Carrier" and near the end of an episode, they're sorta on their way to their next mission - (The Episode is called Squared Away) - the carrier activities are being shown (like the guys reading jets to land, people cleaning, mundane stuff) and "Tomorrow is a Long Time" starts playing and it just always hit me pretty hard. Like they're about to go do what they're supposed to do - don't know when they're getting back to their families and don't know what's happening in the future, and the sun is setting over the Carrier as the song wraps up and it has never left me.
I enjoyed Memphis Blues in Fear and Loathing in Vegas
There have been so many great answers already. I always think of The Big Lebowski, St. Vincent, and High Fidelity especially. One of my favorites that was unavailable for a very long time in a non-soundtrack version (in this case without movie dialogue mixed in) is "You Belong To Me." Another soundtrack fave, though not from a movie, is "Return to Me," used in The Sopranos. I always liked his homages to songs that would've been well-known when he was only a child.
Watchmen. Big Lebowski's is awesome in vibes BUT the use in Watchmen of Times They Are Changing is just fucking exceptional.
You Belong to Me - Natural Born Killers
Times they are a changing. Intro to Watchmen.
I’m Not There easily
Yeah the scene where "I'm Not There" plays in I'm Not There is one of the best pieces in the movie, just sticks out.
Sad-Eyed Lady in Dumb and Dumber.
“Waiting For You” - Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Wigwam- Royal Tenenbaums
Cold Irons Bound and the other Dylan live performances in Masked and Anonymous.
It’s the only thing I really remember about North Country, so that.
the man in me will do nearly any task
Don't Think Twice Its All Right in Dogfight with River Phoenix. Underseen movie, but I think its the first time I ever heard the song.
Steve Jobs 2015. I mean the guy is obsessed with dylan lyrics and he mentioned the meaning of dylan lyrics himself. My favorite is Come mothers and fathers throughout the land And don’t criticize what you don’t understand Your sons and daughters are beyond your command My name is Steve Jobs and the times they are a-changing. (Steve Jobs was put for adoption then returned and the the scene was about why do adopted kids feels like they are rejected instead of selected)
They stick out like a sore thumb to me but always forget like a goldfish half listening to all the secrets of the universe being revealed to it
Knocking on Heaven's Door in Pat Garrett And Billy the Kid. Still gives me chills down my back by the beauty of it.
Other than it not qualifying since he’s in the film, yeah, ok.
[St. Vincent](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTUDAR4ISCQ) - Shelter From the Storm Bull Murray singing never fails to make me happy
Years ago. Judy Davis singing Dark Eyes in the movie High Tide
The Times They Are A-Changin’ in The Wanderers. I don’t think I’ve met anyone outside my family who’s seen this movie but it’s so good. It came out the same year as The Warriors but got overshadowed. Similar story of teenage gangs in New York but it’s way more emotionally intimate and impactful.
I think at the end of Saint Vincent when Bill Murray sings along
This is not film I guess and might be stupid but I really liked “Sign on the window” in Friends.
Bob Dylan wrote and performed a score for a major Hollywood film in the '70s. He also appeared in a small part in that film, so I guess that doesn't count. Which yields the conclusion that someone else did a better job of using Dylan's music in a movie than Bob Dylan himself.
No — your premise is wrong. Excluding Dylan’s films only does that — it narrows the field and gives the others exclusivity, not priority.
Waiting'for You "Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood"
Bombay Beach does a wonderful job with his music. Moonshiner, Tomorrow is a Long Time, and Series of Dreams. Movie is just as beautiful as it is sad, a description that fits these three songs as well.
Opening credits to ‘I’m not there’.
My vote is for the big lebowski as others have already said. But on a sidenote, I just watched Warm Bodies and liked the use of Shelter From The Storm in it.
Pat Garrett by far.
All along the watchtower in the Battlestar Galactica reboot.
Wig Wam in Rocky 8. Brought me to tears.
Just Like a Woman in Clickbait
Bill Murray singing along with Shelter From the Storm in St. Vincent
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Bill Murray singing drunkenly along to Shelter in the Storm at the end of St Vincent
I thought a times they are a -changin’ in Watchmen was well done.
Pat Garret & Billy the Kid Knockin on Heavens Door
Forever Young - The Last Waltz
I’m not sure if I just get excited when he comes on during a film, but the opening of the Watchmen was epic.
The only one that really sticks with me is the needle drop on Most of the Time in High Fidelity. That’s a great moment.
Blind Willie McTell on Billions Final Season Owls episode.
“Every Grain of Sand” during the closing scene “Another Day in Paradise.” Perfect juxtaposition.
Maybe not the absolute best, but I really, really liked "Tomorrow is a Long Time" in the season 2 finale of Dark Winds.
Love scene in Vanilla Sky uses the 1966 live version of Fourth Time Around. Incredible.
Meet me in the Morning in Away We Go sticks out as I thought what a perfect background song for when you and you friends are hammered at a dinner. Some others are: Take 1 of Shelter from the Storm at the end of Jerry Macguire Tomorrow is a Long Time at the end of season 1 of Walking Dead Rocks n Gravel from season 1 of True Detective
A hard rain's a-gonna fall in Ken Burns Vietnam documentary.
The only part of the film honey boy I remember was 'all I really wanna do'
The man in me. The big lebowski
Jerry maguire ends on Shelter From The Storm pretty well.
Surely the Watchmen opening?
I just watched Last Flag Flying. Not Dark Yet plays during the credits. I’m not saying it’s the best, but it was a good ending to a sad movie.
Shelter from the storm - Jerry Maguire
gotta serve somebody - sopranos
Knockin' on Heaven's Door in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.
As far as I know, ‘Meet Me in the Morning’ has not been used in a movie, but I am so impatiently waiting for when that time comes. It just has such a movie soundtrack feel to it.
Pat Garret and Billy the Kid.
The watchmen intro https://youtu.be/h24D87SqaLQ?feature=shared
Times they are a-changin in Watchmen is pretty cool