RAS Beautiful Film Music & Videos
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Meet Joe Black- Whisper of a thrill (Thomas Newman)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYVQIs2bZK8
Meet Joe Black, My Heart Will Go On
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vs_W5LV5zk
Meet Joe Black Soundtrack (That Next Place)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gao05T_CqdE
Meet Joe Black is a 1998 American romantic fantasy film directed and produced by Martin Brest, and starring Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, and Claire Forlani. The screenplay by Bo Goldman, Kevin Wade, Ron Osborn, and Jeff Reno is loosely based on the 1934 film Death Takes a Holiday, an adaptation of the 1924 Italian play La Morte in Vacanza by Alberto Casella.
It was the second pairing of Hopkins and Pitt after their 1994 film Legends of the Fall.
Media mogul Bill Parrish is contemplating a merger with another media giant. Also, his eldest daughter, Alison, is planning an elaborate 65th birthday party for him. His younger daughter Susan, a resident in internal medicine, has a relationship with Drew, one of Bill's board members.
Considering marriage, as Bill sees Susan is not deeply in love, he suggests she wait to be swept off of her feet, suggesting "lightning could strike!". When the company helicopter lands, he hears a mysterious voice, which he tries to ignore. Arriving in his office, Bill has sharp pains in his chest and hears the voice again, saying, "Yes."
While studying in a coffee shop, Susan meets a vibrant young man who also says "lightning may strike" a relationship between them. Stunned, she departs without getting his name. Unbeknownst to her, directly afterward, he is struck fatally by multiple cars.
That evening, Bill hears the voice again and it summons him so Bill meets him alone in a room. Slowly materializing, it identifies itself as Death and is now in the body of the young man. Death explains that his impassioned speech to his daughter piqued his interest. Given Bill's "competence, experience, and wisdom," Death says that for as long as Bill will be his guide on Earth, Bill will not have to die. They both return to the dinner table and under pressure to make an introduction, clumsily make up a name for Death. Introduced to the family as "Joe Black." Joe Black, having no sophisticated human qualities, doesn't seem to know how to drink, eat or why food and utensils are used. He later wanders through the palatial house to adapt. Susan tries to understand his intentions, noting that his character is not the same.
Bill fails to keep events from going rapidly out of his control. Drew secretly conspires with Parrish Communications, capitalizing on Bill's strange behavior and reliance on Joe to convince the board of directors to vote Bill out as chairman. Using information from Bill's son-in-law, Quince, Drew pushes for merger approval which Bill now opposes.
Intrigued by Joe's naivete, Susan sees he's very different from the young man she met in the coffee shop. She falls deeply in love, so Joe is now under the influence of human desires and a magnetic attraction to her. Bill inadvertently walks in and sees them. As they make love, Joe asks Susan, "What do we do now?" She replies, "It'll come to us."
Bill angrily confronts Joe about his relationship with his daughter, and Joe declares his intention to take Susan with him. But at Susan's hospital, Joe interacts with a terminally ill old woman who wishes to pass away. Understanding who he is, when he tells her he loves Susan, they discuss the meaning of life and she helps him understand he is dangerously meshing two worlds.
As Bill's birthday arrives, he asks Joe to recognize the meaning of true love, especially honesty and sacrifice. Joe realizes he must set aside his own desire and allow Susan to live her life. Joe helps Bill regain control of his company, exposing Drew's underhanded business dealings to the board by claiming to be an agent of the Internal Revenue Service and threatening to put Drew in jail.
At the party, understanding his death is imminent, Bill makes peace with his daughters. Susan tells Joe she has loved him since the day in the coffee shop and he hints that his time is coming to an end. Realizing Susan loves the unknown man, not him, crushes him. He doesn't tell her who he really is, but she seems to intuit something mystical about his identity. Struggling to comprehend the magnitude of their attraction, Susan declines to comprehend Joe as Death. She sputters, "You're, you're Joe." He promises "you will always have what you found in the coffee shop. Thank you for loving me."
In their father/daughter dance, Susan and Bill also say goodbye. Then, on a hilltop above the party, Bill asks Joe, if he should be afraid. He replies, "Not a man like you." Fireworks explode in the distance while Susan watches Joe and her father cross a bridge at the top of the hill and descend out of sight on the other side.
Susan stands stunned as "Joe" reappears alone and bewildered. He is the embodiment of the young man from the coffee shop, uninjured and not comprehending where he is. Susan accepts that her father is gone, and the magical love that she had shared with this young man has returned. "What do we do now?" she asks. "It'll come to us," he replies, as they descend hand-in-hand toward the party.
