Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, was a blast, especially considering the topics it hit upon amidst the murder-mystery. Discovering that the film’s composer was a U2 fan was lagniappe, and this quote from the article linked below really resonated with me:
“I grew up in a particular strand of American evangelicalism that split everything—people, vocations, all parts of culture—into two distinct camps: secular and sacred. And thus, there also existed “Christian” knock-off versions of most popular music genres. To have a band as big as U2 putting music to the lyrics of a Psalm felt like a huge deal to me, and played a big part in blurring the lines that were so clearly defined in my head at the time.”
The full piece, ‘An interrogation and a challenge… and a pretty good title for a murder mystery’, includes Johnson’s reflections and thoughtfully curated U2 playlist that helped shape the film’s musical imagination.
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