The movie Real Steel will be in theaters Friday, October 7th and I was able to see a sneak peek last weekend! One of my favorite things about Real Steel is the soundtrack!
Make sure to read my recent review of Real Steel!
I recently had the chance to interview Director Shawn Levy he spoke to us about his choice of music and how he uses it on set.
Director Shawn Levy
Well, I make a play list, I don’t know if this is interesting to you guys, but I’ll just tell briefly. I play music on set when I’m shooting. And so every movie I make, it’s something I started doing with. The more intellectual the actor, the more I find music is a great way to direct, because you bypass the, like, cerebral intellect, with music. So with Steve Martin, with Ben, with Tina and Steve on ‘Date Night’ and with this boy. Especially with Dakota. If you… music just kind of gives them the feeling you want without it being cluttered with words that get them in their head.
So for every sequence of the movie, I make a play list months before I make the movie. So I had fight songs, I had pre-fight songs, I had the opening, and my opening playlist was, like, Nick Drake, Josh Radin, Alexi Murdoch, Ben Harper, a little John Mayer. You know. That kind of stuff.
I love that he actually played the song while filming to get everyone in the mood. The scenes in the movie where the music is pumping are electric and you can tell that all of the actors and the crowd were just full of energy.
In addition to songs from artists like Eminem, Foo Fighters and Alexi Murdoch, the beautiful score is by Danny Elfman.
Check out this playlist for the Real Steel Soundtrack, in stores October 4th!
1. Fastlane – Bad Meets Evil (Edited)
2. Here’s A Little Something For Ya – Beastie Boys (Edited)
3. Miss The Misery – Foo Fighters
4. The Enforcer – 50 Cent (Unreleased)
5. Make Some Noise – The Crystal Method Featuring Yelawolf
6. Till I Collapse – Eminem (Edited)
7. One Man Army – Prodigy & Tom Morello
8. Give It A Go – Timbaland Featuring Veronica
9. The Midas Touch – Tom Morello
10. Why Try – Limp Bizkit (Edited)
11. Torture – Rival Sons
12. All My Days – Alexi Murdoch
13. Kenton – Danny Elfman
In honor of Real Steel, I wanted to give you an awesome giveaway!
One lucky reader will win the Real Steel Soundtrack!
Disclosure: I was not compensated for this review or giveaway. The giveaway is being held by me. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
I think I will be waiting for this to come out on DVD and get it through netflix rather than go to the theater to see it
I will probably wait for it to come to DVD taking 3 kids to a movie theater to see a non kid friendly movie probably not such a great idea lol
I probably will not but I know my son will. Thanks for the wonderful giveaway
My husband and I REALLY want to see this. We both love action flicks and we both like Hugh Jackman, so this looks fun.
sadly no. no babysitter time do I see in the near future.
I saw it in a preview showing last night. I loved it!!!
My daughter will be going to see it
I will totally be going to see Real Steel! I’ve been looking forward to it!
YES! I CAN”T WAIT! Date night this weekend!
Yes, we’ll be seeing it!
Yes i will go see it with my husband!
My husband really really wants to see this movie and with his birthday coming up we will probably go to see this movie
A friend of mine saw a sneak preview and like it but said that the robots did corny dancing so I am iffy about it. I know my husband would like to see it so he may take me.
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Yes we are going to see it!
mnrquick at yahoo dot com
I don’t know if we’ll see it in the theater, but we will be seeing the movie!
Thanks!
Jayme
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I think we will see it when it comes out on DVD. Thank you
Looks great !
I will not be going to see it in the theater but will watch it when it comes out on DVD. Thanks.
partymix25(at)hotmail(dot)com
It’s undecided still. I’m really picky about what I see in theaters, but action flicks are usually on the top of the list.
MY SON IS SO EXCITED FOR THIS MOVIE
We saw it and loved it!
I am hoping to go see this when it is released! I want to see this so bad!
I would like to take my sons to see it but not sure if we are going to have time. We might have to wait until it comes out on video
i’m just too cheap….errrr…..i mean frugal. but i can hardly wait for it to come out on redbox!
yes with my sis
My grandson is begging me to to see…………….so we will be going to the theater to watch!
Karen Dorris
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I hope to be seeing this movie soon.
Unfortunately no, we have to much to do with our kids. However I’m very excited to see this movie so we will be going as soon as we can 🙂
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iI want to ser this movie but honestly will probably not seeit until it is out on dvd.
I love seeing any movie that Hugh Jackman is in. 🙂 This is on my list to see.