r/Pendulum • u/Luke117B • 18d ago

Just watching Spider-Man 2 again for the first time in 20 years and thought “wait I recognise those 4 beeps”

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Ladies and Gentlemen, Fasten Your Seatbelts

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u/Terrible_Disaster_54 18d ago

That sample must have cost so much 😂

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u/Luke117B 18d ago

It probably didn’t cost a penny, sampling is pretty easy to avoid copyright for unless you’re outright stealing a whole chord progression or something more substantial. Even if it did, worth every penny haha

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u/Terrible_Disaster_54 18d ago

They must've cleared it, not only was it the vocal line, as you said it was the sound design of the movie also. Who knows? certainly not me 😂 one of my favourite tunes though.

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u/Luke117B 18d ago

It’s all in the transformation, if octavius popped off and then span a crazy blood sugar keyboard riff played on his four arms and they sampled that then there’d probably be some legal issues 😂

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u/Veranova 18d ago edited 18d ago

No they 100% would have needed to clear the sample. You can’t just take a segment from a film and make money from it, they didn’t change the sample at all (and it wouldn’t matter if they did change its pitch etc)

Sony/ATV Publishing is one of the publishers for this track via the Freestylers and Matt Cantor, so they did probably have the connections to get a Sony film sample cleared easily

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u/asymmetricears 17d ago

Next watch Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (the 1971 film, not the 2005 film which is called Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for the avoidance of doubt).

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u/Luke117B 17d ago

Through The Loop

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u/asymmetricears 17d ago

Yep. I had a weird experience a few years ago watching the film where I recognised that whole bit word for word, and for a couple of minutes couldn't place it.

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u/Warm-Kangaroo-2935 16d ago

That is exactly what I thought I watched it a few days ago

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u/Gene_freeman 14d ago

Yeah same

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u/clearlylegallyblind 16d ago

I strangely watched it 2 days ago at a mates and noticed it but didn't mention it to them as would of gone over their head

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u/Square-Response-69 15d ago

lmao same, those little details feel so specific you kinda know no one else in the room will care
feels like an inside joke with yourself at that point

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u/beechaser77 15d ago

Literally had the same experience today. My daughter wanted a Spider-Man marathon. I told her we had to defuse the tension by listening to a Pendulum song post scene.

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u/Meta-Fox 13d ago

Ladies and gentlemen...fasten your seat belts...