Okay, this is not really what I do here at Colin Timberlake, but I keep getting questions, given that I’ve provided a few posts on the great action montages and soundtrack songs of the 1980s, which means naturally that I can’t go without mentioning Teen Wolf, Michael J. Fox, Mark Safan, Amy Holland, Win in the End, Styles, Shooting for the Moon or…Lorie Griffin, the hot chick who played Pamela Wells and then promptly disappeared into thin air when she could easily have parlayed this role into 20 years of moderate pay in B-list horror movies.
So first off, I don’t know where Lorie Griffin is, and no she won’t go out with you.
But just for the hell of it, here are a few classic Teen Wolf pictures…
Well, technically this end credits sequence may not meet all the formal criteria of a proper montage. Nonetheless, it is welcomed into the Hall of Fame on several peripheral grounds.
It combines several elements that have become key factors in great montages: Teen Wolf, Michael J. Fox, a 1980s soundtrack queen (Amy Holland), high school and sports.
Perhaps second only to E.G. Daily (Summer School) and Robert Tepper (Rocky IV) as a pop music soundtrack specialist, Amy Holland also made a notable mark on the Scarface soundtrack, among others.
Here, Shooting for the Moon provides the backdrop for the end credits (and character resolutions) of Teen Wolf, and commences mere moments after the film’s other great montage (Win in the End).
With back-to-back double montage action, Teen Wolf brought us not only gnarly music, radical basketball action and montage supremacy, but also…ahem…Lorie Griffin (see right).
Sure, Boof was nicer and certainly not bad-looking, but there must have been some kind of shady double angle Michael J. Fox could have worked here.
And from the files of songs that absolutely belong on your workout playlist (provided you have seen the associated movie) is Win in the End by Mark Safan. The song was used as the backdrop for the final conflict between Michael J. Fox’s high school basketball team and the opposing squad led by his nemesis, Mick.
Due in no small part to the soundtrack, Teen Wolf remains an 80s teen classic, and virtually everyone who has seen the movie and has an appreciation for sports will instantly conjure up images of high school basketball upon hearing this track.
The film also featured Jerry Levine, James Hampton, Mark Holton (who would later play serial killer John Wayne Gacy) and Jay Tarses as the most apathetic coach in the history of high school athletics.
In a tragic turn of events, Lorie Griffin (pictured right) didn’t really appear in any other notable movie roles following her portrayal of Pamela Wells in Teen Wolf. I don’t think anything bad happened to her. It was just a tragedy that we were limited to this and an episode of Charles in Charge.
Enjoy one of the most effective pieces of soundtrack music from a decade that specialized in linking music and film.
And for people that want a little refresher, here is the actual basketball sequence from the movie.
“How much more of this can you take?”
“As much as you can dish out…”
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