Well, perhaps not too ambitious, but - in deed - truly infectious this game
is (always worth playing - especially if you're asking yourself a question
"why exactly did I decide to become a film scholar"... And what a relief
from mumbling the "film language" issue over again! :-)
Some fine examples have been already given - my choice would be as follows
(!):
- the flower girl face as she finally recognises Charlie in "City Lights"
- the fake-mirror scene in Marx Brothers "Duck soup" (borrowed from Linder)
- a grapefruit scene in Wellman's "Public Enemy"
- the deserted house at the beginning of "Grapes of Wrath"
- Bogumil Kobiela running through the field of cabbages in Munk's "Bad Luck"
- Jimmy Stewart's reconciliation with the community in a
hip-hip-hurray-jolly-good-fellow final of "It's a wonderful life"
- "Kinsey report" dance in the antropological museum in "On the Town"
- Jerry/Daphne throwing a spontaneus party on a train in "Some Like it Hot"
- mushroom clouds in "we'll meet again" closing sequence of "Dr.
Strangelove"
- Astaire and Kelly dancing together and dressed as angels in "Ziegfeld
Follies"
- Dragoljub Aleksic making a circus number in Makavejev's "Innocence
Unprotected"
- the medicine students game with a match box in the opening sequence of
Skolimowski's "Barrier"
- the epileptic Alessandro in the last scene of Bellocchio's "Fists in the
Pocket"
- Daniel Olbrychski & Elzbieta Czyzewska's charleston in the furniture salon
in Bareja's "Marriage of Convienience"
- hand-cuffed Travis's escape from school in Anderson's "If..."
- Ninetto's holding a flower while walking through the streets in Pasolini's
episode of "Amore e rabbia"
- Ben Braddock standing perplexed in his swimming suit in "The Graduate"
- the maoists dancing in "Chinese"
- the total eclipse in Kawalerowicz's "The Pharaoh"
- the Busby Berkeley-like shot of students chanting "Give Peace a Chance" in
"Strawberry Statement"
- Jane Fonda & Yves Montand arguing over the photo in "Tout va Bien"
- Alex's "Hey Hey Hey" when entering the Cat-lady house in "Clockwork
Orange"
- a young Nazi singing "Tomorrow belongs to me" in "Cabaret"
- a truck with a cow painted on the side in "Zabriskie Point"
- Malgorzata Braunek's demonic smile in Wajda's "Hunting Flies"
- Polanski appearing with a knife in "Chinatown"
- Krystyna Janda's brave walk through a corridor in a tv station in Wajda's
"Man of Marble"
- Hendrih Hofgens alone on a field in the final scene of "Mephisto"
- Roddy Piper exposing a "matrix" conspiracy in "They Live"
- "The thing" biting Copper's hands of in Caprenter's ever-green ("You've
got to be fu..ng kidding!")
- the "drilling breakast" scene form the forst "Tetsuo"
- Bruce Willis running over glass shards in "Die Hard"
- same actor in between his dead lovers in "Death Becomes Her"
- veins removed from the victim's body and then attached to his limbs in
order to use him as a puppet in 3rd. part of "Nightmare on Elm Street"
- the piano stuck on the beach in Campion's classic
- Renton's dive into the toilet in "Trainspotting"
- "love me tender" performed by Nicholas Cage in a traffic jam (from the
final of "Wild at heart")
- "the making of a Hula-Hoop" sequence in "Hudsucker Proxy"
- Brad Pitt's fine performance in a mutiny in the mental clinic scene in "12
Monkey's"
- the repetitive animation in "Lola rennt"
- Adam Miauczynski's fatal encounters with co-passangers on a train in
Koterski's "Day of the Wacko"
Well, can't help thinking of hundreds more, so I guess I'll wrap it up for
now.
While expecting Chris Fujiwara's forthcoming book, Amos Vogel's classic may
be handy if anyone's out of ideas - which I doubt :-)
K.
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