Great subtle moments in movies

[quirkasaurus]

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in the remake of "Sleepy Hollow" with Johnny Depp...

After the Headless Horseman re-emerges from the windmill,
Johnny raises one eyebrow in disbelief. ( how's that for subtle? )

Other subtle lines:

"I suggest a new strategy, R2: let the wookie win!"
-- C3P0, Star Wars IV

"We're victims, aren't we all?"
-- The Crow to Tin-Tin right before he kills him

"These aren't the droids you're looking for..."
-- Obi-wan Ben Kenobi, Star Wars IV

In some Woody Allen Movie:

( Scene is at an Art Museum )

Woody: ( to girl staring at painting ) That's an interesting Renoir.
What does it mean to you ?

Girl: It diagram's our pathetic struggle against an indifferent
and hostile universe; lost in the emptiness of death and sorrow;
a netherworld of nothingness, void of all meaning and feeling.

Woody: What are you doing Saturday night ?

Girl: Committing suicide.

Woody: What are you doing Friday night ?

Man to Bruce Willis in Mental Institution in Twelve Monkeys:

Hello, friend. I am mentally divirgent. You see, I am called
by the Elders of the Planet Ogo. We are planning an insurrection
against the barbarian overlords.

But even though this construct is convincing to me in every
detail, they tell me that I can only be well, when I stop
going there...

Are you divirgent, friend ?

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Please research the definition of the word 'subtle.'

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surely you concede that these are not, by any means,
scenes used in the trailers...

[SoloAJ]

I just thought of one that I find both hilarious and to fit the concept of being "subtle."

I can't remember what movie it was in, but Charlie Sheen was playing some deadbeat down and out type of character. And another character said something to him about doing something right, and Sheen responded ~"Yeah right, I can't even shave my sideburns so that they're even."

Then later in the film I noticed that his sideburns were, indeed, uneven. I found that to be a nice subtle addition to the character, that they actually had him shave them uneven. The combination of me laughing at the line originally and noticing it to be true later really got me.

It may not be 'great,' but at least it's subtle.

[bisonbison]

The next time you watch the Departed, watch how many "Matt Damon's character is gay" hints they drop.

[Jay Riall]

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The next time you watch the Departed, watch how many "Matt Damon's character is gay" hints they drop.

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Only one I can remember is the implied erectile disfunction thing. Though he did like to call people '[censored]' or '[censored]' a lot.

[bisonbison]

Only one I can remember is the implied erectile disfunction thing. Though he did like to call people '[censored]' or '[censored]' a lot.

Other things I remember:

- The guy who sells him his place assuming he's gay
- When his girl moves in he only makes out with her when he knows they'll be interrupted
- his huge discomfort at the porno theater (like queasy).

I saw it for the third time and was pretty happy about it. It's like Damon and Scorcese got together and were like "we're not gonna say it, but he's gay."

[quirkasaurus]

In the remake Bewitched, with Will Ferrell...

Jack Wyatt is being interviewed on that Bravo show,
"Inside the Actor's Studio"...

The host asks him, "So, who should get the blame for
the total fiasco movie, "Himalaya's" or something...

Wyatt goes "I blame wardrobe."
Host; "wardrobe...?"

Later in the movie, Samantha is watching the movie,
Himalaya's on late night TV, and Jack Wyatt is
struggling up the mountain in a ridiculous looking
fur hat and he bellows "SHERRRRRPAAAAAH!!!!"

[joker122]

also in pulp fiction, where travolta and thurmon arrive home with the dancing trophy and so you assume they won...then later in the film you faintly overhear a car radio reporting "an incident at jack rabbit slim's occurred where a man and a woman stole a trophy for a dance competition last night" or something like that. very cool and subtle.

[Riverman]

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also in pulp fiction, where travolta and thurmon arrive home with the dancing trophy and so you assume they won...then later in the film you faintly overhear a car radio reporting "an incident at jack rabbit slim's occurred where a man and a woman stole a trophy for a dance competition last night" or something like that. very cool and subtle.

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100+ posts, this may be the first good example

[Emmitt2222]

People are really scrutinizing what subtle is, but I guess I will try.

In The Big Lebowski, over the course of the whole movie, his apartment and his car gradually get destroyed. This much is obvious. The part that I really like every night I watch it, though, is that in the first scene in the apartment, the Dude is put in a headlock and as he lunges towards the bathroom his bowling ball cracks the frame of the doorway. Every time I watch it I think in my head "and so it begins". It's great how the Coen brothers just fit in little things like that all throughout the movie.

Also, subtle things that all Achievers know about, but are still cool, are that Donny only doesn't bowl a strike right before he dies and the goons of Jackie Treehorn switch clothes between their two scenes.

[Golden_Rhino]

In the Royal Tenenbaums. The scene where Stiller tells Hackman "it's been hard dad". No big hug, no dramatic music. Just perfect.