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I'm looking for a particular type of scene in a film or tv show.
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Can anyone think of a scene in a film or tv show where the character see things one way, but then you see the same scene but how it really was?
For instance there is a scene in How I met Your Mother, where Ted thinks he is being great, but the trouble is he is drunk, so when you see it from another point of view, you see that he was really being a gimp.
Ideally the scene should be about what is said rather than what is seen.
For instance there is a scene in How I met Your Mother, where Ted thinks he is being great, but the trouble is he is drunk, so when you see it from another point of view, you see that he was really being a gimp.
Ideally the scene should be about what is said rather than what is seen.
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Not saying It's good. And its more about what he sees.
Yes sadly that is more how he sees the world rather than perceives what is being said.
But it is a good example of someone seeing things differently to how they are.
I'll see if I can find it, but if it is just one sentence then it may not help. I'll google the sentence.
There is a couple of flashbacks revealing characters' perspectives of reality don't match the actual reality. They are brainwashed, though.
To be honest, I'm not sure what you're looking for. Characters' spoken recollections that don't match the visual reality? Like Ross from Friends, for example, claiming he was the coolest dancer at school, but a flashback reveals he was actually an embarrassment on dance floor. Is this what you meant?
Also Woody Allen uses the device (in Annie Hall) of displaying in subtitles what characters are thinking when they are saying something quite different to each other.
I have 'Lovelace' but haven't watched it yet, so will check it out.
What I'm looking for is slightly more subtle than the Annie Hall subtitles thing.
The ambiguity is in the wording of what the people say, but it is the tone of voice, facial expressions and body language that give away the context of what is actually being said.
In "Coven", after Sister Jude has been imprisoned and lost her mind, she sees a new inmate as the Angel of Death and is terrified of her. As viewers, we too see the inmate as the Angel of Death. Only later do we see her as she really is and realise Jude has been hallucinating (although she doesn't *hear* the inmate saying anything different from what she's really saying in this instance).
Vantage Point is more of the film taking different views from the same scene at the start of the film.
Regards
Mark
If you like that sort of thing, 'Sliding Doors' is worth a watch.
Two difference life scenarios, simply because of missing a tube train in one instance, but not missing it in the second instance.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120148/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Mulholland Drive too has a lot of scenes of dialogue that take on a different meaning after you've seen the last part of the film.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y9aKqawdUQ
...even his death.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-13ScnosXAk
It all surrounds 4 girls getting invovled in a robbery of diamonds and we see the same events of the film played out different from each girl's point of view and how they all connect with previous scenes before.
STTNG- A Matter of Perspective
Lost, season 5, the conversation at the marina was shown several times over a number of episodes. Each time the conversation was slightly different depending on the perspective of the character the episode was focusing on.
Is that the episode where they describe the sheriff differently? Great episode if it is.
Fight Club (1999) - two contrasting characters create an underground combat scene
Life of Pi (2011) - shipwrecked guy shares a life boat with a tiger and other animals
Les Diaboliques(1955) - two women plot to kill an abusive husband.
Vertigo (1958) - former cop fails to save the deluded sucidal wife of an old school friend