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10 Brief Blasts of Radiohead in Pop Culture
The band shuns corporate use of their music, but here are 10 films and ads it has crept into.
7. Perhaps the Teen Beat crowd is rediscovering the band: Radiohead is featured in the retro, re-cappy credits sequence for “Twilight,” where lots of neck nuzzling and meaningful looks are set to “15 Step.”
8. Though not on the film’s soundtrack, Radiohead’s “Life in a Glass House” (from “Amnesiac”) is featured in Alfonso Cuaron’s terrifying futurescape, “Children of Men.” It is heard playing in the home of wily old hippie Jasper (Michael Caine) when Theo (Clive Owen) comes to visit him for the first time. It’s one of the rare instances of Radiohead’s music being used diegetically, another being in “Clueless,” where Cher hears “Fake Plastic Trees” playing and does her trademark recoil: “Yuck! Ugh, the maudlin music of the University radio station.”
9. After clearing up the rumor that Radiohead would actually score the entire film, Richard Linklater confirmed that “A Scanner Darkly,” his rotoscoped adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s novel, would feature one song from Thom Yorke (“Black Swan”) as well as “Fog” from Radiohead.
10. I’d love to know how the negotiations went for this one: “High and Dry” can be heard playing in the background as Chuck (Adam Sandler) shows Alex (Jessica Biel) some of his late night moves in a scene from “I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.”
Tags: A Scanner Darkly, Children of Men, Clueless, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, NBA, Radiohead, Romeo + Juliet, Skins, Steve Nash, Twilight, Unfaithful, Vanilla Sky
