Punch-Drunk on Harry
May 21st, 2008 | 9:48 am est |
If you, like me, adore both Paul Thomas Anderson’s Punch-Drunk Love and singer/songwriter Harry Nilsson, you might want to go check out For the Love of Harry, simply the best website devoted to the man whose song “He Needs Me” from Robert Altman’s adaptation of Popeye PTA used so effectively in PDL. A recent post to that site reveals the existence of a very rare Nilsson track, also from Popeye, called “Everything Is Food”. This unravels the mystery of a seeming non sequitur from the party scene in Punch-Drunk Love (skip to 1:38 if you just can’t wait).
That seems to be a clearer explanation. I remember reading somewhere that this particular quote was a goof by Sandler, and Anderson decided to keep it beacuse Mary Rajskub & Robert Smigel played along so well. I rather believe you.
And yeah. The “He needs me” version for Punch-Drunk Love is lovely. I think it was Jon Brion the one that re-arranged the song, not sure.
Greetings.
That seems to be a clearer explanation. I remember reading somewhere that this particular quote was a goof by Sandler, and Anderson decided to keep it beacuse Mary Rajskub & Robert Smigel played along so well. I rather believe you.
And yeah. The “He needs me” version for Punch-Drunk Love is lovely. I think it was Jon Brion the one that re-arranged the song, not sure.
Greetings.
Actually, the version of He Needs Me in Punch Drunk Love is the exact same version sung by Shelly Duvall on the Popeye soundtrack. Don’t know if Brion did an instrumental version or not. But the movie versions are exactly the same.