(click to enlarge South Park vs ‘Dragon Tattoo’)

I was watching South Park’s 1997 'Death’ episode and noticed that a key scene is oddly similar to the climax of 2011’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

Here is a semi-spoilerish description of the Dragon Tattoo scene from Entertainment Weekly:

One of the few times The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo takes a break from Trent Reznor’s thrumming, entrancing score is during one of its more harrowing scenes, when [REMOVED] has trapped [REMOVED] in their murder den and is preparing to wreak havoc… What music does the killer choose to set the mood? The 1988 new age-y hit “Orinoco Flow” by Enya, previously played mostly in less dangerous environs like elevators or waiting rooms.

“Orinoco Flow (Sail Away)” by Enya on SoundCloud:

Now check out this 1997 South Park clip:

“This music is terrible! It’s cheesy but lame and eerily soothing at the same time!”

Who is the one responsible for the Dragon Tattoo music selection? Not the director David Fincher or the writer Steven Zaillian, but the actor Daniel Craig. More via EW:

“I have to give credit where credit is due,” Fincher tells EW. “We knew we needed a moment of levity. I said, ‘He should walk over and turn on music, because he doesn’t like to kill, he doesn’t like to hear the screams, without hearing his favorite music.’ And Daniel Craig hopped up and picked up his iPod and scrolled through it and said, ‘Here it is.’ And we all almost pissed ourselves, we were laughing so hard. No, actually, it’s worse than that. He said, ‘Orinoco Flow!’ Everybody looked at each other, like, what is he talking about? And he said, ‘You know, “Sail away, sail away…”’ And I thought, this guy is going to make Blomkvist as metro as we need.”

The question remains, is Daniel Craig a closeted South Park fan?

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