Favourite movie scenes

[Walker]

U-Turn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4if32z7FWO4

[promethean75]

challenge: name a movie in which one or more of these three plot devices occur - peripeteia, anagnorisis and deus ex machina.

Describe the scene, which device is utilized, and explain how/why.

[promethean75]

And u can't use a movie, play or story mentioned in an article somewhere (like wiki) when u google this stuff. U gotta learn what these devices are and then recall/analyze movies you've seen to find them.

[promethean75]

Saving Ryan's Privates.

Hanks sitting wounded and shell shocked against a motorbike with nothing but his sidearm as the german tank rapidly approaches him head on. He raises an unsteady hand and begins firing. One of the bullets passes perfectly up the turret gun, hits the shell and the whole tank explodes.

Deus ex machina?

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxLgt-IdjNXr ... DlxQPgLW4k

[promethean75]

Wait wtf. It was the tank buster plane that blew the tank up?! Dude I always thought hanks blew it up with his pistol. All these years. I just noticed the plane. Ah jeez.

Carry on.

[Walker]

Good movie.

*

This actor who fought in WWII, you know the one.
The one who acts like he did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJJHSsLhE24

[Walker]

Back in ancient olden days of yore when I used to read everything, I read the "historical novel" Shogun, by James Clavell.

Now it's a series on Hulu, and it is awesome. Story, acting, cinematography, dialogue, life and death every moment.

Episode 3, tomorrow. Very exciting. The politics of feudal Japan, and man you better know how to treat the boss.

Portugese Catholics, English Protestants, Japan is the secret treasure of the Portugese and they are interfering with their colonialist, lying political ways, which comes as quite a shock to Japan that considers itself the Center of the Universe. Allies, enemies, deceit, power struggles.

[Walker]

"The Boldest Experiment in Advertising History"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf2q0HemaFs
Desperate fantasy meets simple logic.

[Walker]

Brutal, but in a funny, civil way.
The setting is in an office, in the Arizona desert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0rS5Zusw4M

[Walker]

Trump Returns to Trump Towers
(and discovers that everything has changed)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnpATXvwWrI

[promethean75]

Warning: graphic nudity. Viewer discretion advised. The following is a short video documenting the rare and sacred Brazilian Vagina Contest that customarily isn't ever filmed but a camera crew was given exclusive access in this case. Feel free to mention the models who's vaginas u gave the highest rating to. I found vagina number 4 especially nice and one more... lost count but wanna say six or seven. Another brunette chick.

https://kaotic.com/video/46304cad_20240416021240_t

[promethean75]

Yeah contestant 7 is the other one.

[promethean75]

As with any other ethnicity there are the hotties and there are the mediocre. The thing with the Portuguese/Brazilian is that the hotties are especially hot in a way that the hotties from the other ethnicities aren't. There's like a rich earthy animal sexiness to em that whites, asians, indians, arabs and blacks don't have. Like some kind of mix between spanish, arab and a dash of black folks somewhere way down the line. They got a sexy tan... not all pale like a scandinavian chick (who still may be hot tho). They're like what happens when aztecs mate with Spanish europeans. U get some sexy genetic results when u do that.

Seriously when have u ever seen an attractive female Brazilian woman (or dude) who wasn't on some super sexy hot jungle fever level shit. Imagine rolling around naked with a sweaty Brazilian female model level hottie who smells like soap and sex.

[promethean75]

On the twenty-seventh floor of a high-rise hotel at the beach. It's 94 degrees outside. The air conditioning blasts freezing cold air and u stand in front of the glass holding a scotch and looking down on the beach below. Behind u she's cutting a line on the table. U can hear the razor clicking the glass. 'Oh c'mon, papi, ju know how much I love the pavilion. Why don't chu take me, hmm. Ju don't have to be at the stupid meeting. Just have Marcel go. Here, come... I fix u.'

U turn to see her on the couch. Her left shoulder strap has slid down her shoulder revealing the top of her tanned supple breasts. 'SNNNNTTTTHHHHHHHH'. She throws her head back and pinches the coke from her nose. 'Ah, sim, é tão bom!' 'C'mon here, meester', she says as she plants her dark eyes on u, slowly hiking up her skirt.

[Walker]

They don't make 'em like this anymore.

That's because movies used to have a literary base. Now, corporate uses a comic book base, which makes most dialogue just wisecracks.

*

Dusty Rayles Elmer Gantry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge-P19KGhME

Tough questions from an agnostic, but Gantry reveals their premise, that reveals the (objectively defined) bias.