Cruel Intentions paid a ridiculous amount of money to use 'Bitter Sweet Symphony.'
. Even though the song was first released in 1997, its legacy is largely indebted to the 1999 teen film, in which it soundtracks the final scene. Incredibly, though, that moment almost didn’t happen: Despite the fact that the last scene was written to the Verve’s “Bitter Sweet Symphony,” there was a period of time when the song wasn’t going to make it into the film.
That’s because it ended up costing 10 percent of the movie’s overall budget to secure, thanks to the Rolling Stones. If you weren’t paying attention to this controversy in 1997—for which you’d be forgiven—the Stones’ former manager Allen Klein filed a lawsuit against the Verve for plagiarizing the Stones.
Eventually, the production team got the song, after paying out an insane amount of money for it. “The song cost close to a million dollars, which was probably 10 percent of the budget,” the producer Neal Moritz added. “When we thought it was going to be hopeless to get, we tried 200 other songs in its place. We could not find anything even close to it. It was well worth it.” Indeed. It’s now impossible to imagine Annette leaving behind the city in Sebastian’s car to any other song.
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