{"id":2230,"date":"2009-07-02T13:11:23","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T17:11:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-07-11T01:11:38","modified_gmt":"2009-07-11T01:11:38","slug":"last-man-standing-movies-with-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-movies-with-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Man Standing: Movies With Titles Referencing Rock Album or Song Titles\/Musicians While Not Really Having Anything to Do With the Point of Reference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<div><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/lastmanstanding400x275.swf\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/lastmanstanding400x275.swf\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>An example of what I&#8217;m talking about is <em>Pretty in Pink<\/em>. Although the movie uses a new version of the <strong>Psychedelic Furs<\/strong> song, the movie&#8217;s not really based on the song, is it? I think it was just a coincidence that a hip, new song was sitting there that could tie into the marketing of Molly Ringwald while the movie was in production. <\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, <em>Alice&#8217;s Restaurant<\/em> is an adaptation of the song, so that one wouldn&#8217;t count. Same goes for movies &#8220;adapted from&#8221; entire albums, like <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2007\/07\/25\/gibb_to_produce_lemgmagical_mystery_tour\">Sgt. Pepper&#8217;s Lonely Hearts Club Band<\/a><\/em> or <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2009\/05\/15\/lemgtommyl-emg-the-movie-a-good-b-good-b\">Tommy<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Got me? <\/p>\n<p>Finally, movies with titles that were picked up for use in rock songs after the release of the movie, such as <em>Thunder Road<\/em>, are not elligible. The possibly coincidental or at least not <em>essential<\/em> rock reference of the movie title must follow the release of the song. I hope that&#8217;s clear enough to get us going on this difficult task. Don&#8217;t worry, I think I&#8217;m holding the answer that will make me Last Man Standing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An example of what I&#8217;m talking about is Pretty in Pink. Although the movie uses a new version of the Psychedelic Furs song, the movie&#8217;s not really based on the song, is it? I think it was just a coincidence that a hip, new song was sitting there that could tie into the marketing of <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-movies-with-titles\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[55,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}