Soldier's Things, Waits' song from his 1983 album, Swordfishtrombones, is on the soundtrack of the movie Jarhead.
The film is a, adaptation of hte book by from Anthony Swofford, a lance corporal in a United States Marine Corps scout/sniper platoon who saw combat in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait during the Gulf War.
More info about the movie at CinemaReview.com, which also has some production notes from the director, Sam Mendes
(thanks to Jarlath for the heads up on this)
2 comments:
Yea, I saw the movie friday night. I was definately pleases to hear Tom Waits' voice at the end of the movie, and an appropriate song too.
Oh yes. Very appropriate.
The song is played (almost in full) over a montage of scenes showing what happened to the various marines when they came home after the war.
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