I suppose mine is open to interpretation, but have always adored the scene in Almost Famous when Penny Lane (Kate Hudson) is on the plane and has a moment of realisation about William (Patrick Fugit), about how he's the one who truly loved her and his love for her ended up saving her life. At least, that's my own interpretation of the moment.
I know people don't rate Kate Hudson but she is brilliant in that movie, IMO.
I think it was about half way through Drag Me to Hell when I realized that it was a comedy. Up to that point I thought it was just the worst film i'd ever seen - after it I actually found it funny.
Indiana Jones and The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull.
Where you realise Indi is actually in one of those Nuclear Test towns in the desert.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Where Roy (Richard Dreyfuss) is tugging at the mud mountain on the table and the top comes off. Then he looks at the news broadcast on his tv !
wondered if you meant that camera effect where the foreground goes forward and the background goes backwards, I always take that to mean moment of sudden realisation
wondered if you meant that camera effect where the foreground goes forward and the background goes backwards, I always take that to mean moment of sudden realisation
Yes, it does. That effect is a dolly zoom. Not much in use these days, though, because it's generally seen as a cliché since the early 1980s.
...Borden realises just before he is to be executed that his rival Angier is Lord Caldlow, then the twist does an about turn as Angier is later shot by Borden, who is supposed to have been hanged, and he then realises how Borden did his "Transported Man" trick, he had a twin brother who lived his life as Fallon, Borden's ingenieur
Yes, it does. That effect is a dolly zoom. Not much in use these days, though, because it's generally seen as a cliché since the early 1980s.
Apart from 'Vertigo' and 'Jaws', I couldn't think of a single other example of its use. There's a list on TV Tropes, but even that only runs to a couple of dozen examples.
Apart from 'Vertigo' and 'Jaws', I couldn't think of a single other example of its use. There's a list on TV Tropes, but even that only runs to a couple of dozen examples.
That list is missing quite a few films.
Raging Bull - Edited: between 1:10-1:25 and reverse at around 1:39 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wwItkoapuA
Shock Corridor
The Lodger (Alfred Molina)
Three O'Clock High
The Incredible Hulk Edited: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jHc4lUaCp4 - the kick, between 0:20-0:23
Sex, Lies & Video Tape
Scarface
Anaconda
Spy Games
The Lonely Heart is the Hunter
The Villain (French bank heist film)
too many horror films
Quite a few East Asian films as well. Such as Peppermint Candy, Memories of Matsuko, My Sassy Girl.
I know I'm missing more, but those are what I could recall.
I can't decide whether to include Dead Poets Society. I haven't seen this since its cinema release so perhaps it's time to watch it again.
Jack - after Jack collapses, and he's in his bedroom and the butterfly reappears, and it dies in his hands. He realises that he isn't going to live for very long, just like the butterfly.
Inception - right at the end when we realise Cobb is dreaming...or is he?
August Osage County had some good realisation moments, where a situation becomes a lot worse. The audience audibly gasped!
Brief Encounter. So many little moments but Laura and Alec's declaration of love for each other is a great one. They realise simultaneously that this wonderful feeling will lead them down a path of guilt and betrayal.
The most horrific one for me was actually in a soap, Night and Day. A man who has been having an affair with his daughter's underage best friend is informed that his daughter was swapped at birth, with the best friend. His realisation that he'd been sleeping with his own daughter (and got her pregnant leading to her having an abortion) and the daughter's realisation that she can never get to know her real family is heartbreaking.
When they realise the dreams are coming alive
When Hoffman realises he entered the Sphere
When they realise at the end that they're still under the influence of the Sphere
It's on Film4 right now: The moment Jimmy Stewart and Richard Attenborough realise Hardy Kruger is a model aeroplane designer in Flight of the Phoenix.
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Such a beautiful performance IMO.
BB not winning the Oscar for this film still baffles me 16 years later.
Lovely. Lovely.
I know people don't rate Kate Hudson but she is brilliant in that movie, IMO.
Where you realise Indi is actually in one of those Nuclear Test towns in the desert.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Where Roy (Richard Dreyfuss) is tugging at the mud mountain on the table and the top comes off. Then he looks at the news broadcast on his tv !
Yes, it does. That effect is a dolly zoom. Not much in use these days, though, because it's generally seen as a cliché since the early 1980s.
Apart from 'Vertigo' and 'Jaws', I couldn't think of a single other example of its use. There's a list on TV Tropes, but even that only runs to a couple of dozen examples.
That list is missing quite a few films.
Raging Bull - Edited: between 1:10-1:25 and reverse at around 1:39 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wwItkoapuA
Shock Corridor
The Lodger (Alfred Molina)
Three O'Clock High
The Incredible Hulk Edited: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jHc4lUaCp4 - the kick, between 0:20-0:23
Sex, Lies & Video Tape
Scarface
Anaconda
Spy Games
The Lonely Heart is the Hunter
The Villain (French bank heist film)
too many horror films
Quite a few East Asian films as well. Such as Peppermint Candy, Memories of Matsuko, My Sassy Girl.
I know I'm missing more, but those are what I could recall.
I can't decide whether to include Dead Poets Society. I haven't seen this since its cinema release so perhaps it's time to watch it again.
Inception - right at the end when we realise Cobb is dreaming...or is he?
He's still the best thing in it mind.
Brief Encounter. So many little moments but Laura and Alec's declaration of love for each other is a great one. They realise simultaneously that this wonderful feeling will lead them down a path of guilt and betrayal.
The most horrific one for me was actually in a soap, Night and Day. A man who has been having an affair with his daughter's underage best friend is informed that his daughter was swapped at birth, with the best friend. His realisation that he'd been sleeping with his own daughter (and got her pregnant leading to her having an abortion) and the daughter's realisation that she can never get to know her real family is heartbreaking.
"The Weekend At Bernie's" when you realize Bernie was dead all along.
When they realise the dreams are coming alive
When Hoffman realises he entered the Sphere
When they realise at the end that they're still under the influence of the Sphere