Now i know that the headline is quite misleading, and probably you will concur with this once you have been through with the entire blog. The flick Cruel Intentions released in 1999 with Sarah Michelle Gellar , Ryan Phillipe, and Reese Witherspoon is not the topic of discussion here. Nor is the recent hindi movie Bluffmaster a centerstage figure. However there is one common thing between the two movies. One of the background tunes of the movie Bluffmaster( especially when Abhishek gets senti over his bandi ) is an exact copy of the song at the fag end of the movie Cruel Intentions. I had last watched the english movie atleast a year ago, but surprisingly today when i was browsing through Bluffmaster( people in Kgp will have a very good idea of how it is done ), the background score caught up my ear. On a hunch i look at Cruel Intentions and bingo !!! A perfect match !!
And after all this i got wondering ... where from did i get this memory !!! Because i hadn't listened the song atleast for a year, but today i got it out of nowhere !! Does music have a special effect on human memory. If you have music in the background can you memorize a thing faster and reproduce it even after a long time ? I think music buffs can answer a lot of these questions.
But most important , this incident restored a self-belief .... atleast my memory is still good enough !!!
By the way the song i am refering to is Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve. Guys can check it out .. even the lyrics are good !
Last of all .... why is the title Cruel Intentions .... well i have had a night out and its 6 am now ... so i guess i cant get a more suitable title .
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well, as usual, nangto has hit upon a verrry interesting topic...or should I say interesting note.. !
I can't draw a direct conclusions from your experience that music can help one remember things...it might be just that one's retentive power is higher sumtimes...which is a direct indicator of one's intensity of concentration at those times...sometimes I remember exactly at which positions the computer players(BOTS) are in a game even after a year of playing the game...tht's because i usually am bad at comp games, and have to repeat levels many times before I get through to the next ones...so it sticks in my head...and i AM blessed with a good visual memory.
During my growing up years, before maine hosh sambhala(wat's the english phrase fer it?)...i used to read these picture book Russian stories, with all men having brown beards...so when I saw my first Metallica video, I thought these guys were Russians...!!
shit happens, but the loo's a great place to be !!!
the music and the lyrics clicked you while seeing ci and again in bluffmaster. that's why i think you recognized the tune so eazily after so long... of course, your memory is another issue... ;)
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