Yes, PLANET OF THE APES and FIELD OF DREAMS come to mind. Did that scene with the Scarecrow in THE WIZARD OF OZ also have him on his wooden thingy hanging in a cornfield? Basically crucified is what it is.
I think of Jerry Goldsmith's story about discussing a film score with director Michael Crichton as they walked together through a cornfield with the tall Crichton towering above and through the tops of the corn.
Erik's post about crying during a podcast made me think of all this as the Interviewee Snelling recalls the story of the tear evoking SUPERMAN "Leaving Home" cue where he remembers young Clark Kent and his stepmother standing in a cornfield as the sad music plays. Of course he meant to say "wheat field" as that is where the cue's crescendo and finale takes place.
Any other "Cornfield" film music references you can think of? Was there any TWILIGHT ZONE music for the "Cornfield" that young Billy Mumy sent people too when they pissed him off? Don't recall who scored that original "It's a Good Life" episode.
I now have this freaky image in my mind of Kirk Douglas as SPARTACUS crucified on the Appian Way and right next to him, the Scarecrow from THE WIZARD OF OZ crucified has he appeared in the film when Dorothy discovers him. Crazy. Dogplant could probably have some great "Photo Shop" fun with that imagery, disturbing as it is.
There's that early scene from Interstellar where they are driving the truck with a flat tire and chasing the drone while mowing down rows of corn with Hans Zimmer's music leading the way.
Signs was the ultimate cornfield movie. James Newton Howard had a field day (pardon the pun) scoring scenes involving cornfields in that film.
There's that early scene from Interstellar where they are driving the truck with a flat tire and chasing the drone while mowing down rows of corn with Hans Zimmer's music leading the way.
Terry Plumeri's great score to the mostly forgotten (but actually quite good and underrated) 1988 little horror film SCARECROWS is music for ominous cornfields in the dark of night.
Terry Plumeri's great score to the mostly forgotten (but actually quite good and underrated) 1988 little horror film SCARECROWS is music for ominous cornfields in the dark of night.
Agreed. Woefully underrated, almost Twilight Zone like.
