Two years after the film’s original release in 1992, Wenders created a director’s cut version of the film, lasting almost five hours. That sucked.” The original version of the film lasted two and a half hours, cut almost by half from Wenders’ intent in order to appease film distributors. We had to release the film in a ‘Reader’s Digest’ version. Wenders said in an interview in 2011: “Until the End of the World was the most ambitious film I’ve ever done, and the most expensive. As you watch the film you get the sense that this was a much bigger undertaking production-wise than any of the director’s previous films. The second part of the movie takes place in the Australian outback, where the pace relaxes and the plot shifts into the effect of watching one’s dreams on the main characters’ psychic. I will not go over the plot here as too much happens at a very quick pace, but the visuals are stunning and the way they combine with the music is unsurpassed. It is a movie made of two halves, the first a frenetic globetrotting tour de force, where the main characters hop easily between Venice, Paris, Lisbon, Berlin, various US locations and Japan. When the movie was released in 1991, it was a futuristic road movie with a backdrop of an impending nuclear disaster at the end of the millennium. This is the story of the soundtrack to Wim Wenders’ Until The End Of The World. But that movie came with a soundtrack that in my opinion is not only a great example of incorporating songs into a movie, but also one of the best song collection albums, making up a soundtrack that is even more impressive when listening to it on its own outside the context of the film. That same year saw the release of a movie that grossed only a meager $752,856 in the US box office, a bona fide flop that was soon forgotten. In 1992 Cameron Crowe used the early Seattle grunge scene as a backdrop to the movie Singles and helped boosting the popularity of Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains and others. Who can forget the opening scene from Easy Rider with Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper on their motorbikes while Born to Be Wild by Steppenwolf is playing in the background or the start of Coppola’s Apocalypse Now with The Doors’ The End. In later years movies such as Almost Famous, Pretty in Pink and High Fidelity all used popular songs very effectively.
Movies from or about the 60s such as Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now and Platoon included period music so well that scenes from them are etched in our memories as much due to the music as the visuals. The use of period rock and pop songs as film soundtracks is a powerful tool that movie directors utilize to create a strong sense of time and place by connecting with a widely recognized cultural reference.
4 The soundtrack to Wim Wenders’ Until The End Of The World.
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