It’s so overwhelmingly pretty that eight years later, in 2012, a deaf man who successfully tried new hearing aids asked Reddit, “I can hear music for the first time ever, what should I listen to?” and he quickly listed “Starálfur” as one of his favorites, just a day after discovering music et al.
With gorgeous sweeping strings, an otherworldly sounding piano and lead singer Jónsi’s stunning falsetto, it’s not surprising that the song-despite it being sung in Icelandic, not English-fits so perfectly in such a beautiful scene.
Those two simple lines, both filled with a sense of wonder, could very easily describe the song that was playing throughout the scene, “Starálfur,” by then-rising Icelandic band Sigur Rós. “Yeah, it’s pretty good isn’t it?” replies the titular character, played by Bill Murray. For the first time since it killed Steve Zissou’s best friend, the entire crew finally sees the jaguar shark, the animal they’ve been hunting for nearly the entire movie. “It is beautiful Steve,” says Anjelica Huston during the climax of Wes Anderson’s 2004 film, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.
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