Infectious, indeed. Some more random examples:
The remnants of The Statue of Liberty at the end of the original
Planet of the Apes.
The Tom Cruise character finding himself in an empty Times Square,
devoid of people at the beginning of Vanilla Sky (and a similar
moment in the original Open Your Eyes/Abre los ojos).
Peter Lorre's child murderer seeing in the mirror the 'M' sign on his
back in Lang's M.
Eddie Felson (Paul Newman) in The Color of Money seeing his
reflection in the pool ball.
The moment in Suspicion when the Cary Grant character carries a
luminous glass of milk up the stairs.
The cowboy in Porter's The Great Train Robbery firing his pistol at
the camera (the viewer).
The train arrival in the Lumiere brothers' Arrivé d'un train...
The famous 'Nosferatu' low-angle shot of Abraham Lincoln as he steps
up out of the shadows to an off-screen crowd cheering him in Young Mr
Lincoln.
The explosions and consumer products flying through the air in slow
motion at the end of Zabriskie Point.
Marilyn Monroe's skirt-blowing scene in The Seven Year Itch.
The image of the ship being pulled over a mountain by manpower in
Herzog's Fitzcarraldo.
Laurence Olivier's Nazi dentist drilling the protagonist's (Dustin
Hoffman's) teeth in Marathon Man.
The levitation in The Exorcist.
The nocturnal cityscape of Blade Runner. The cityscape of Metropolis.
The moment in the hotel room in Vertigo when Scottie (James Stewart)
has finally made Judy over into Madeleine, as she turns round in his
POV...
...
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> This is infectious:
>
> Slim Pickens riding the back of the nuclear bomb at the end of Dr.
> Strangelove...
>
> James Mason seeing Sue Lyon sunning herself in her bikini and heart
> shaped sunglasses in Lolita...
>
> Little Alex coming back to himself as the Prime Minister brings him
> the huge stereo at the end of Clockwork Orange ("I was cured alright")
>
>
>
> "For beauty is the beginning of terror we are still able to bear,
> and why we love it so is because it so serenely disdains to destroy
> us" Rilke's First Duino Elegy
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