" almost like in pop culture, it's become its own voice to represent intense drama epic," Benyacar said. It "even makes bad golf epic," reads the title on a 2012 home video.
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It's the climactic soundtrack for amateur clips of cats fighting fan compilations of the movie 300 or of the footballer Lionel Messi hype up videos of the Chicago Bears and American college football. "Requiem for a Tower" backs the hugely viral meme of Stains, the dramatic cupcake dog, in a 2009 video with over 5.4 million views.
The song has morphed even more on YouTube. And those are just their biggest name appearances. "It works perfectly to describe two opposing forces brought to the ultimate confrontation," he said.īoth versions of the song have had success outside the world of sports: They've been used in ads for Canon PowerShot digital cameras and the Canadian telecom provider Telus trailers for Sunshine, The Da Vinci Code, and I Am Legend the Assassin's Creed and Return of the King video games a performance by Ricky Jaime on So You Think You Can Dance in 2011 and a ballet routine that earned Monique Evans the title of Miss Texas in 2014. The song's structure is particularly well-suited to sports, according to Duvall. It eventually formed the theme for Sky Sports News Canadian hockey team Edmonton Oilers used "Requiem for a Tower" as entrance music and the football club Arsenal has also walked onto the pitch using "Lux Aeterna." The song has been so popular in figure skating alone that it holds an entry on a Wiki for the sport: French skater Brian Joubert used it toward a first place win at the European Figure Skating Championships in 2009, and the French duo Vanessa James and Morgan Cipres-who recently retired amid the latter's sexual misconduct allegations-skated to it in a 2014 routine that took them to the Sochi Olympics. That was just the beginning of the song's rocketing popularity. Duvall, who established the music department at Ant Farm and worked as the music supervisor and producer on the Lord of the Rings advertising campaign, Horvath-who did not respond to an inquiry for this story-came to him with a request: What if they adapted Mansell's composition from the personal connection it conveyed in Requiem into an orchestral groundswell worthy of Tolkien's source material? As the team at entertainment marketing company Ant Farm thought of the music for the Two Towers trailer, editors Jenn Horvath and Steve Harris were inspired by Requiem for a Dream's score. That year, Thrive Music put out Requiem for a Dream: Remixed, an album that included Paul Oakenfold's " Aeternal," and two years later on Kings of Crunk, Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz put rhymes and a trap beat over Mansell's composition in the song " Throw It Up." (Oakenfold released a modified remix called " Zoo York" that also featured "Lux Aeterna" on his 2002 album Bunkka.) Those moments certainly helped "Lux Aeterna" take on an identity separate from Requiem, but it was another classic film that turned the song into a beast of its own: Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, whose record-breaking success in 2001 meant its highly anticipated second movie, The Two Towers, needed a treatment just as epic.Īt the time, The Fellowship of the Ring had already rounded out the top five highest grossing movies ever, but The Two Towers took the action to world-shaking new heights as Frodo Baggins continued his quest toward Mount Doom and as men and orcs fought in the legendary Battle of Helm's Deep. Remixes of "Lux Aeterna" quickly followed the film's October 2000 release.
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