

Ode performed by a chorus in strophes movie#
Very common piece in movie trailers, particularly if a film is critically and/or financially successful, for instance the Die Hard and Hot Tub Time Machine films.In the Beatles Help!, the boys sing "Ode To Joy" to tame a tiger.Get Smart uses an edited version in the climax, where a bomb wired to the piano will go off at the end of the piece, killing the President and many others.The climax of Fulltime Killer features this tune.The above scene from Die Hard is parodied in Four Against the Bank when the film's eponymous German bank robbers open the safe to the famous tune.Michael Kamen: Our bad guys were lineal descendants of the bad guys in A Clockwork Orange. Its usage as the villains theme is a direct reference to Stanley Kubrick's classy ultraviolence. Referencing this scene, trailers for later Die Hard films would play the song over Stuff Blowing Up. Used in Die Hard when Hans and his men open and loot the vault to the Nakatomi Corporation.Incidentally, the piece, along with the Ninth Symphony as a whole, is one of Alex's personal favorites and freaks when the government scientists (inadvertently) use it against him during the Ludovico Treatment, robbing him of the pleasure he once had of the piece when he used it for his ultra-violent fantasies. Featured in A Clockwork Orange once with a woman singing the piece through a vocoder while Alex and his gang are relaxing at the Korova Milkbar, again during Alex's romp in a music store and once more during the Ludovico treatment.Johnny the Homicidal Maniac is listening to "Ode to Joy" while massacring a coffee house - and pauses when the records skips.Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" plays out, with original Japanese lyrics, over the closing credits of Satoshi Kon's Tokyo Godfathers.

In the Read or Die OVA, Yomiko is heard humming it, and is played when The Suicide Symphony is going to be broadcasted onto the entire world.Used a few times in Psycho-Pass for Soundtrack Dissonance.On the whole, Ode to Joy describes the plot and themes of Evangelion (especially the Instrumentality) in a rather scarily accurate, if ironic, way. He also plays it on a piano during his introduction in the Manga. He is also heard humming it in his and Shinji's first encounter. This is Kaworu Nagisa's leitmotif in Neon Genesis Evangelion.It appears twice in the Kämpfer OVA, used hilariously to make an Ass Shove poke epic.Might be an homage to Kaworu, but it might also be because he's actually German. Yashiro Isana hums this several times in K as does the Colorless King, particularly notable in the murder video.
