For 1979's BEING THERE, Hal Ashby created one of the most brilliant sequences ever set to film:
Shot composition, pacing Sellers' performance.
All perfect.
But the masterstroke: Scoring it with Eumir Deodato's Grammy-winning jazz rendition of Strauss' "Zarathustra"
Genius.
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This scene from the 1979 movie BEING THERE features the jazz rendition of Richard Strauss' "Also sprach Zarathustra" as arranged and performed by Eumir Deodato.