Pink Floyd's Dark side of the Moon syncs with Star Wars: The Force Awakens

[Marina9]

So i've found this curious article, something i'll have to try this weekend hehe..

http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/02/star-wars-the-force-awakens-syncs-up-to-pink-floyds-dark-side-of-the-moon/

Here are some examples, though obvious spoiler warnings ahead:

– When Poe (Oscar Isaac) wakes up in Kylo Ren’s (Adam Driver) torture chamber, the lyrics of “The Great Gig in the Sky” go, “I’m not afraid of dying/ Anytime will do,” and the song’s scream happens right as Poe opens his own mouth.

– “Time” plays while we witness the repetitive mundanity of Rey’s (Daisy Ridley) life making a living by scavenging old electronics.

– The “Us and Them” lyric “And after all, we’re only ordinary men” is sung right as Finn (John Boyega) tells Rey that Resistance fighters look like him. “Some of us,” he says. “Others look different.”

– Twice during the “Keep your hands of my stack” line in “Money”, someone grabs a lightsaber: First it’s Rey taking hold of Luke Skywalker’s (Mark Hamill), then Han Solo (Harrison Ford) grabbing Kylo’s.

– “Us and Them” again syncs with the battle of Battle of Takodana. As Finn surveys the battleground, the lyrics go, “God only knows/ It’s not what we would choose to do.” Then, as David Gilmour says, “Black,” the camera focuses on Finn receiving Luke’s lightsaber (oof). Just as Gilmour says, “Blue,” Finn ignites the blue blade.

– In what turns out to be his final scene, the camera focuses right on Han Solo as the lyrics, “If you can hear this whispering, you’re dying” are heard.

– During Kylo and Rey’s final fight, the “Us and Them” lyrics go, “Black and blue/ Who knows which is which and who is who,” echoing the fight between going to the Dark Side or staying with the Light Side of the Force.

– “Brain Damage” in almost its entirety seems to fit up with the movie’s final scene as Rey makes her way towards Luke: “The lunatic is on the grass/ Remembering games, and daisy chains and laughs/ Got to keep the loonies on the path.”

 

[Buddy]

Thanks for mentioning that. I knew that people had been doing syncs with Wizard of Oz, but I didn't know about Star Wars. I wonder if the syncing ability is due mostly to the rhythmic sense of sound engineers and film editors? Interesting anyway. :)

 

[Yupo]

Such a great album. Timeless.

 

[IronFloyd]

In the case of "Dark Side of the Rainbow" can not help but consider, the strange synchronicities from the beginning, as when in "Breath" says: "Balance on the biggest wave" and at the same time, Dorothy is teetering on a fence, she falls, and begins the dramatic and urgent rythm of "On the run", until the sound of clock in "Time" starts ringing when Miss Gulch arrives on her bicycle bells, but draws attention too, some images like a pair of wheels on the left side of Dorothy, that archetypically represent the time, or a hung triangle that remember the art cover of Dark side of the Moon. After, the dialogue between the soothsayer (Professor Marvel) and Dorothy in "Breathe Reprise" is very coincident with the lyrics of the song, and the synchronies between the start and the end of songs, and the start a the end of scenes, as when starts "the great gig in the sky" and along with that, the tornado scene, that in short, represents the "death" that leads to Dorothy to another world which is "illusory", and there begins "money" as a symbol of the illusory or superficial. In Dark side of the Moon documentary, Rick Wright says that he told to Clare Torry (the singer of "The great gig in the sky") that she sings thinking about death or something very powerful over "The great gig in the sky" melody.

And so, there are many details. Many have wondered if Roger Waters and the band made the album thinking on the film, but they have said a thousand times, no, it's just coincidence.

In the case of Dark Side of the Moon and Star Wars, the truth is that I have not seen (just a little in the beginning), but I call attention the part where the little robot gives the impression that he is staying below to the spaceship, and when it goes up and looks around, and on "Breath" song says; "Leave but do not leave me, look around and choose your own ground, long you live and high you fly" ... well, I have never been a big fan of Star Wars, but if there are more curiosities and coincidences, would be fun to know. :P