Tusk Featured in movie

[secondhandchain]

Saw "The Croods" preview and the whole opening title sequence is to "Tusk".

http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/drea...n-2013-preview

I also believe it is in the teaser for the movie.

[Lindsfan]

Cool First, The Americans, and now this.

I didn't see a video though. Is the trailer on there, and I'm just not seeing it?

[bluecalmsea]

How neat! I was already excited about this movie- it looks like it will be beautiful, this just makes it even better!

[secondhandchain]

I've seen the movie ( I work in the industry) and tusk is heavily featured in the first 15 minutes of the movie. It's a soundtrack score version that is a little reworked but pretty cool.

[michelej1]

Indie Wire March 25, 2013
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplayli...-tusk-20130325

[Excerpted]

This weekend, DreamWorks Animation’s new feature “The Croods” was unleashed in theaters nationwide. A zippy, prehistoric-set riff on the family-road-trip comedy, it features a clan of cavemen (and, it should be noted, cavewomen) who are forced to evolve after cataclysmic events threaten their way of life. It’s easily one of the most visually inventive and genuinely heartfelt movies to come out of DreamWorks Animation, and we were lucky enough to speak to Kirk DeMicco and Chris Sanders, co-directors of “The Croods,” about the development of the movie, the differences between DreamWorks Animation and Pixar, who their favorite cinematic cavemen are, how Guillermo del Toro and Roger Deakins helped, and why they utilized Fleetwood Mac’s “Tusk” in the score.

I wanted to ask you about the music because the opening sequence has an orchestral version of the Fleetwood Mac song “Tusk.” Where did that come from?

Chris: Jeffrey had pulled that in.

Kirk: Yeah, early on we had said something like a marching band type of thing and it always stuck and we were always talking about “Tusk.” And we were talking with Alan [Silvestri, who Sanders worked with on “Lilo & Stitch”] and he was involved from the very beginning. And from the very beginning we had that opening hunt and we wanted it to be a kind of stand alone setpiece and Alan said, “What about the USC Marching Band [who famously contributed to the Fleetwood Mac song]?” We wanted it to feel almost like a football game and he came up with that idea. So we did it with the USC Marching Band and then, when we were scoring it at Abbey Road, they did some more tracks and layers.

[Richard B]

Just watched The Croods (not a great film) last night and loved the Tusk track in the film. I didn't see this thread before I watched the film, so it was a nice surprise. Glad I searched for this before double posting.

Here's the Soundtrack credit on IMDB.
Tusk
Written by Lindsey Buckingham
Performed by Alan Silvestri and the USC Trojan Marching Band
Arthur C. Bartner (as Dr. Arthur C. Bartner), Music Director

Here's a clip from the movie w/ Tusk, but the song Tusk is used with is called "Smash and Grab"

[michelej1]

[From AV Club article re use of song in Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp]

http://www.avclub.com/article/wet-ho...t-day-c-224245

AVC: This was a moment that clearly needed a specific type of song.


CW: Yeah, definitely. Originally they had temped in “Rock ‘N’ Roll Fantasy” by Bad Company, so we knew that was going to be a song moment. And I knew I wanted the score to flow seamlessly into it, so it would be like a rock opera moment. I personally did not think “Rock ‘N’ Roll Fantasy” was enhancing the scene enough to push for it as one of the important songs to license. I thought I could beat it—not as a song, but as a dramatic moment. Jefferson and I were sitting around with another member of my team, Matt Novack, who is the composer for Childrens Hospital. We were writing that whole huge climax section, which is wall-to-wall score and pretty big orchestral score surrounding “Let’s Rock” and “Higher And Higher” in the finale. We knew we wanted it to be this big rock opera moment.

If I knew a moment wanted a song, but I didn’t know what it wanted, I would just click play on whatever song popped into my mind on Spotify or iTunes. So I played “We Will Rock You,” which obviously worked because it’s “We Will Rock You.” I played “Tusk” by Fleetwood Mac, which worked really well in a totally different way. I wanted to capture this sort of dread in it. I didn’t want it to be, like, a triumphant anthem. “We Will Rock You” and “Tusk,” they’re songs that were scary to me as a kid, but also totally anthemic and they transcend the era in which they were made. I wanted the song to have the word “rock” in it, like so many of those classic rock-anthem songs. Lyrically we hadn’t done that yet, and it seemed very era-appropriate. Jefferson had this chord progression he was working on, but he was frustrated with it, so I took the parts he thought were good and started from there. It has my favorite lyric from the Wet Hot songs, which is “School’s through / What you wanna do / Let’s rock,” and the next line is “Kids rule / Ridin’ with the deuce / Let’s rock.”