Saturday, February 10, 2007

Children Of Heaven

Raindrops keep fallin' on my head
But that doesn't mean my eyes will soon be turnin' red
Cryin's not for me
'Cause i'm never gonna stop the rain by complainin'

-"Raindrops Keep fallin' On My Head" by B.J Thomas


I spent some time to look for a theme track for this Iranian movie I saw called "Children of Heaven" (Translated English title) and decided on the oldie quoted above. This post is like a game, a test of your imagination and all that. Try it. What follows is a list of descriptions of scenes from the movie with the appropriate background essential to get a feel of it. The game is this: Choose a song you think is apt for the scene described.

Scene 1: Cobbler mending old kid's shoes. A boy in ragged clothes and sneakers collects it...Buys bread...At the vegetable shop...Leaves the mended shoes outside carried in a plastic cover and goes in to buy potatoes

"Hey! Pick those inside the cart not those!"

Trash Collector pushing his cart looking for junk to be collected...At the veg shop while the boy is choosing potatoes from the cart...Sees plastic bags around...Puts inside cart...A small black cover is also put

"That will be 65 tomas"

"Mother asks you to credit it to her account"

"You're already in debt!! Ask her to clear a part of it atleast"

Boy with the potatoes...Picks up the bread wrapped in paper...Looking for the shoes in the black cover...Moves the vegetable cartons around lookin for it...Carton of tomatoes falls bringing tomatoes to the ground

"Hey You! What do you have in your head!!"

Boy trying to make amends for his accidental mistake...picking tomatoes from the ground

"Beat it boy!!" (Aiming a tomato at him)

Boy runs for a distance...Scared look on his face...Comes back stealthily...frantically looking for the black cover...Oops! Spotted by the grocer

"Stubborn boy!! Beat it"

Boy runs back home with a scared look.

End of Scene 1. Now sit back. Close your eyes and visualise the scene happening. Then think of a song that can be played while the scene is being shot.