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Title: The Bieber Dredd Connection
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 17 February, 2014, 12:44:58 PM
Not just an attention-grabbing title, and I'm sure some of you already knew this but it blew my mind when I read it on this Cracked article (http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-bizarre-inspirations-behind-famous-movie-scenes/)

Here's the story:

Quote2012's Dredd was a man-trapped-in-a-building action movie that was equal parts science fiction and footage of a dead whale's stomach exploding. A lot of the movie's goriest, most violent moments happen after characters take a drug called Slo-Mo that slows down the user's perception of time and makes his surroundings glimmer with a diamond-like radiance ... and then Dredd busts into the room and kills everyone and we get to see bullets tear people's faces apart in vivid, stomach-turning detail. All the Slo-Mo hyper-violence was set to a beautiful, majestic musical score.

Dredd's composer, Paul Leonard-Morgan, showed an early cut of the movie to his friend and massive Judge Dredd fan Geoff Barrow, an original member of the trip-hop band Portishead. The Slo-Mo scenes reminded Barrow of a cool thing he had seen on the Internet where someone slowed down a Justin Bieber song by 800 percent and the result was an entirely different song that felt ethereal, otherworldly, and much more dramatic. Beautiful, even. Did I mention it was a goddamn Justin Bieber song? Because it was. It was a goddamn Justin Bieber song.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QspuCt1FM9M#t=68 <--

Take a gander, it is almost identical to Ma Ma's Requiem. Astonishing.

Leonard-Morgan used it as a temp track in the early cut - then composed his own version for the final thing.

BLIMEY

Here - for good measure is the Bieber-free Mama's Requiem:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyxC5eVO2GE

and finally, another link to the Cracked article which is a very interesting read generally -

http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-bizarre-inspirations-behind-famous-movie-scenes/
Title: Re: The Bieber Dredd Connection
Post by: Goaty on 17 February, 2014, 12:51:05 PM

Yeah sorry as I mentioned it this Dredd thread last year;

http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php?topic=34200.9750 (http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php?topic=34200.9750)
Title: Re: The Bieber Dredd Connection
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 17 February, 2014, 01:02:27 PM
Well who has the time to fish through that?!  :lol:
Title: Re: The Bieber Dredd Connection
Post by: Goaty on 17 February, 2014, 01:04:49 PM

Lol  :lol:

just put Dredd, Justin Bieber and 2000AD Forum on Google box and magic happens.
Title: Re: The Bieber Dredd Connection
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 17 February, 2014, 02:10:50 PM
780+ pages? I never bother with the Dredd 3D thread, so I didn't know about this. Interesting stuff.
Title: Re: The Bieber Dredd Connection
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 17 February, 2014, 02:15:23 PM
You scoundrels, keep up ;)
Title: Re: The Bieber Dredd Connection
Post by: locustsofdeath! on 17 February, 2014, 10:34:15 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 17 February, 2014, 01:04:49 PM

Lol  :lol:

just put Dredd, Justin Bieber and 2000AD Forum on Google box and magic happens.

Yes, because that's a search combination I use everyday.  ::)

Thanks for posting this, crazyfox. I had a good laugh.
Title: Re: The Bieber Dredd Connection
Post by: Trout on 18 February, 2014, 12:19:23 AM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 17 February, 2014, 02:10:50 PM
780+ pages? I never bother with the Dredd 3D thread, so I didn't know about this. Interesting stuff.

That thread is a crime against humanity.

Thanks, CFM!
Title: Re: The Bieber Dredd Connection
Post by: Fragminion on 18 February, 2014, 04:11:51 AM
The ONLY connection between Dredd and Beiber should be a DAYSTICK!
Title: Re: The Bieber Dredd Connection
Post by: Bat King on 18 February, 2014, 08:07:17 AM
Read this last night - was too traumatised to comment.

Not sure I'm much better today.
Title: Re: The Bieber Dredd Connection
Post by: Goaty on 18 February, 2014, 09:50:30 AM
Well I just create this animated... ;)

(http://i.imgur.com/2DAJpRN.gif)
Title: Re: The Bieber Dredd Connection
Post by: mimikeke on 18 February, 2014, 09:51:47 AM
that is the most amazing thing I've ever seen.  Is it ok if I steal it for my tumblr? with credit of course :)
Title: Re: The Bieber Dredd Connection
Post by: Goaty on 18 February, 2014, 10:02:33 AM
Of course you're welcome to ;)
Title: Re: The Bieber Dredd Connection
Post by: 8-Ball on 18 February, 2014, 02:13:43 PM
If only we could see it in slo-mo. Never-ending bliss.
Title: Re: The Bieber Dredd Connection
Post by: von Boom on 19 February, 2014, 04:14:32 PM
Quote from: Goaty on 18 February, 2014, 09:50:30 AM
Well I just create this animated... ;)

(http://i.imgur.com/2DAJpRN.gif)

:thumbsup:
Title: Re: The Bieber Dredd Connection
Post by: dweezil2 on 19 February, 2014, 07:25:26 PM
If they gave Oscars to Gifs, that should win one!   :D