--- title: Man Edits Movie Endings to Dire Straits Song: Video description: Dire Straits makes everything better canonical: https://time.com/4254025/movies-endings-dire-straits-walk-of-life/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-10T22:32:12.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:30:52.026Z og:title: This Guy Edited Movies to His Favorite Song and It Totally Works og:description: Dire Straits makes everything better og:url: https://time.com/4254025/movies-endings-dire-straits-walk-of-life/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Guy Edited Movies to His Favorite Song and It Totally Works twitter:description: Dire Straits makes everything better twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Guy Edited Movies to His Favorite Song and It Totally Works by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Mar 10, 2016 10:32 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Mar 10, 2016 10:32 PM UTC Peter Salomone had a simple hypothesis: That Dire Straits “Walk of Life” would improve any movie’s ending. “A friend of mine joked that ‘Walk of Life is the perfect funeral song, so I just merged that idea with my love of movie endings,” he said in an email to TIME. Being a student of the scientific method—and after thinking about the idea for two years—Salomone set out to prove his theory by adding the band’s 1985 anthem to the finales of dozens of films. Over the last two months, Salomone’s experiment, which he named the [Walk of Life Project](http://www.wolproject.com/), has tested the theory on all sorts of films, ranging from classics like _Casablanca_ to documentaries like _Nanook of the North_ to much-loved animated features like _The Lion King_, as well as modern favorites like _Dark Knight Rises_ and _Spiderman_. So far the hypothesis has proven correct, although Salomone admits that its use on the Hitchcock classic _Psycho_ is the least satisfying, because it cuts off so abruptly. Because the project is being posted online, movie fans and music lovers can test Salomone’s theory for themselves. Here’s _2001: A Space Odyssey_ with the new soundtrack: Here’s Sofia Coppola’s _Lost in Translation_ scored by Dire Straits: And here’s _Mad Max: Fury Road_ with the song: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4254025/movies-endings-dire-straits-walk-of-life/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4254025/movies-endings-dire-straits-walk-of-life/"},"headline":"This Guy Edited Movies to His Favorite Song and It Totally Works","datePublished":"2016-03-10T22:32:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:30:52.026Z","description":"Dire Straits makes everything better","url":"https://time.com/4254025/movies-endings-dire-straits-walk-of-life/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies","Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4254025/movies-endings-dire-straits-walk-of-life/","name":"This Guy Edited Movies to His Favorite Song and It Totally Works"}}]}] ```