"Swayze Train GTi" (swayzetrain)
10/04/2015 at 11:32 • Filed to: None
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"Swayze Train GTi" (swayzetrain)
10/04/2015 at 11:32 • Filed to: None | 0
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1980’s Flash Gordon is probably one of the most ridiculous movies ever committed to reel. I was really high and a bit drunk when I watched it, but as I understand it, Flash Gordon plays for the New York Jets, then gets on an actual jet, and crashes in some dudes yard. So it turns out this guy has a hotrod spaceship in his garage just like your crazy uncle, and they fly off and find some guy who is evil and stop him from destroying Earth using Flash’s massive football chest. All the while there’s a bunch of ridiculous music penned and performed by Queen and some orchestral dude.
This is basically what happens for a few hours
In fact, it would be fair to say that the cinematic excess of
Flash Gordon
was only matched the commercial Chevrolet produced to promote the futuristic C4 Corvette. Just as a New York Jet somehow ends up on the planet Mongo, a two door sports car built in Kentucky is transported to magical world of computers, mountains, hidden computer mountain tunnels, dry ice, and the Stig’s Terminator Cousin. In fact the only thing different is the dialogue, the purposeful campiness of comics replaced by an overabundance of words uneducated people think a racecar engineer might use.
“Feel the performance of the world’s first computer activated manual transmission!”
“A Corvette with never before available
unidirectional turbine fin
wheels and
tires individually engineered for all four corners”
“...Superb in its engineering and technology, and defiant in its performance”
But the real kicker that I hadn’t noticed until recently was the similarity of the soundtrack, specifically Flash’s Theme, the main song in the movie. Their structure is eerily similar, from the pounding bassline consistent throughout, to the sharp interjections of synthesizers or guitar matched with equally incisive vocals. I would list more similarities, but… Well, let’s be honest, neither of these songs are very complex. What can I say, it wasn’t Queen’s best work.
In the 80s, however, people would like anything that wasn’t terrible, because most things were (cars, style, movies, drugs, Billy Idol, Reebok, wine coolers, Ronald Reagan), and this meant that the single version of Flash’s theme made it to Number 1 on the Australian charts, which makes sense really. Driving across the outback to the pulsing piano beat is the only time I would consider cranking the windows down and the volume up and belting out “FLASH! AH AAHHHHHHHHHHH! SAVIOR OFFFF THE UNIVERSE!”
Anyways, I haven’t been able to find out if Queen actually were the ones to perform the soundtrack for the Corvette commercial, so if any of you have any information let me know, and sorry if you thought you’d find answers. ALL I HAVE ARE MORE QUESTIONS.
Grindintosecond
> Swayze Train GTi
10/04/2015 at 12:14 |
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Im so glad for those individually engineered tires for all for corners. It can dodge lazer stalagmites at up to 55mph.
McMike
> Swayze Train GTi
10/04/2015 at 12:25 |
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The C4 was introduced four years after Flash Gordon, so that’s seems about right. Hell, it took a billion views before they agencies started using Gangnam Style in advertising.
What I’m more interested in is that they thought of
this
first.
ly2v8-Brian
> McMike
10/04/2015 at 12:37 |
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Time travel was a pet project of theirs at the time.
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Swayze Train GTi
> ly2v8-Brian
10/04/2015 at 12:44 |
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Roger Smith with a time machine would have made GM unstoppable. Instead everyone hates him
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ly2v8-Brian
> Swayze Train GTi
10/04/2015 at 12:51 |
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Clearly it only went a year in either direction though.
GhostZ
> Swayze Train GTi
10/04/2015 at 12:59 |
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What probably happened was some GM exec heard the Flash soundtrack, then paid a cover band a dirt cheap commission for them to play (and not license, but have GM wholly own) a pastiche of that style for the commercial. There’s no way in hell GM would fund Queen to make a song unless they were able to let others know it was them. There’s also the question of whether or not they could really afford them, given that I doubt they would have agreed to something like that for anything short of a fortune.
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Swayze Train GTi
> GhostZ
10/04/2015 at 13:21 |
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Probably but there’s a lot less funny jokes that way.
Cash Rewards
> Swayze Train GTi
10/04/2015 at 14:05 |
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Your movie summary was lacking Brian Blessed. C+
