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Warning: Spoilers below if you have not seen "We".
It turns out that you can thank the Universal Marketing Department for this musical interpretation "I Got 5 On It" in "We" by Jordan Peele.
The last black story of the screenwriter-director of "Get Out" contains many frightening moments, but one of the most important is the way the 1995 rap song, "I Got 5 On It," from the band Luniz, is used as a scary movie. musical number in the most dramatic scene of the film.
And if it had not been used in the movie's first trailer, Peele would never have thought of putting the remix of the song into the movie.
"I Got 5 On It" was still supposed to be in the movie. But at first, it was supposed to be played during the scene when the Wilson family is in the car, she plays on the radio and they all start singing and snapping their fingers. But then, Peele decided to use the song to reveal the Wilson's doppelgangers in the trailer. Peele asked Universal's marketing team to take the song that Luniz sampled on the song, which is "Why do you treat me so badly," and give it the tedious remix that you hear in the trailer.
Michael Abels, the composer "Us", said that the popularity of the trailer had allowed Peele to realize that it should be included in the film.
"He knew he had to keep his promises," Abels told the phone on Wednesday at Business Insider.
Abels, who with "We" also composed the score of "Get Out", said that before the trailer, it was not planned to incorporate in the film a musical remix of the sample in "I Got 5 On It". Originally, the scene in which Adelaide and Red (both played by Lupita Nyong & # 39; o) competed at the end of the film was to feature "No Two" from "The Nutcracker" by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ( a small sample of the film). music is still featured just before the fight scene).
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With this musical arrangement already engraved in the scene, Peele abandoned it and asked Abels to create the scary version "I Got 5 On It".
Abels said that he used a string orchestra as a guide.
"Jordan really likes the space in the music," he said. "It realizes the tension generated by the silence, so I put a distance between the baseline and the melody, so there is a pause and because of that, you do not know how long this break lasts and really creates a voltage."
Abels then took what he had and the editor-in-chief Nicholas Monsour prepared a mockup with the images of the Battle of Adelaide / Red to show Peele.
"His eyes lit up," says Abels about the model Peele lives. "He knew it was going to work."
This led to weeks of adjustments to compose the music. And finally, at the approach of the image lock, Abels asked the orchestra to record the music, which took only half an hour to complete.
The scary orchestra version "I Got 5 On It", which will also appear on the soundtrack of the film, titled "No Two", because Abels said as "Nutcracker" by Tchaikovsky two people."
Abels said that's what kind of things that made it exciting to work with Peele on his films.
"I never thought I'd redo it" I got 5 On It "and that's part of Jordan's creativity and his willingness to entertain," he said. "Every time is a new adventure."
"We" currently plays in theaters.
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