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April 03, 2011

last stop

¡°Exit Music (For a Film)¡± is a song by Radiohead, written specifically for the ending credits of the 1996 film William Shakespeare¡¯s Romeo + Juliet. Although not included on either of the two soundtrack albums at the request of Thom Yorke, the song appears on the band¡¯s highly acclaimed third album, OK Computer (1997). The moment in the film when Claire Danes (as Juliet) holds a gun to her head was the actual inspiration for ¡°Exit Music¡±. Thom Yorke also had the 1968 adaptation of the play (Romeo and Juliet) in his head: ¡°I saw the Zeffirelli version when I was 13 and I cried my eyes out, because I couldn¡¯t understand why, the morning after they shagged, they didn¡¯t just run away. The song is written for two people who should run away before all the bad stuff starts. A personal song.¡± The director of the movie, Baz Luhrmann, revealed in the DVD commentary that he believes it is one of the greatest film exit songs ever written.

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The End

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