I was struck a couple of seasons back when the television series Mad Men ended an episode about the dissipation about the same sorts of things Jones always sang about, with this song
playing over the closing credits.
Leonard Cohen «s «I'm Your Man»
plays over the closing credits so don't leave early!
These changes are not huge in themselves, but as the coda that
plays over the closing credits reminds us, even the smallest things can have the most unpredictable of consequences — and although the scenes involving mysterious sneeze guru and failed Presidential contender Humma Kavula (John Malkovich), an entirely new character, seem to have little point here, there is no doubt that his rôle is destined to become more pronounced in the inevitable sequels (note the many verbal references to a certain «Restaurant at the End of the Universe» towards the film's close).
This is subtle enough that the movie can't quite be called a religious one (although the song that
plays over the closing credits seems to believe otherwise), but the pieces are all there for those who would want to claim it — and, hence, LeMarque's story — as proof of some divine presence in this experience.
Not exact matches
But one of the most delightfully unexpected moments of I Am Not Your Negro comes when Kendrick Lamar's «The Blacker the Berry»
plays out
over the film's
closing credits.
Lusciously shot in a hostile Sicilian landscape, this is darkly comic with a cast of infuriatingly selfish and amoral characters.With a counter-intuitive score, tantalizing
close - ups and an immaculately clad Tilda Swinton at centre stage, the tangled relationships
play out like a voyeuristic travelogue.At times overblown but never boring, there is enough exploration of flawed human behaviour to linger
over and discuss long after the
credits roll.
BEST: The
closing credits were
played over a soundtrack of Public Enemy's «Fight the Power,» which was featured in the 1989 Spike Lee film «Do the Right Thing.»
It's like a stylish
play by Simon Gray or Anthony Shaffer, with a neat punchline twist that leaves you laughing
over the
closing credits.