Great subtle moments in movies

[boscoboy]

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From Babel. I'm pretty sure that many people missed this even after a few viewings, but anyway. In the scene near the beginning where the Japanese girl returns to her apartment and flips through maybe 5 channels on the TV. For an instant, she is on a news channel where we see mugshots of the Morrocan kid and the father, which basically hints to us that they will get caught. Their picture only flashes for a second, and if you're not paying attention (which likely is the case because the girl is doing something else), it very easily blends with the background.

Edit: Not sure if this is exactly what happened, but this is how I remember it.

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I just remembered my answer for the "Worst movie of all time" question.

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"after a few viewings"???? bleech [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[TheCroShow]

in requeim for a dream "ass to ass"

[It's Brandt]

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The Big Lebowski

The Dude just finished talking with The Big Lebowski and is being walked out by Brent when The Dude first meets Bunny. She says "I'll suck your [censored] for 1000 dollars. Brent can't watch, or he has to pay 500".

Brent (Played by Phillip Seymour Hoffman) laughs nerviously, and if you look closely his nostrils flare uncontrollably as if it's a nervous tick. THAT is subtle acting at it's finest.

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It's Brandt.

[mused01]

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Spinal Tap ... hard to pick just one, but if I had to it's this one: Nigel is playing his guitar by bowing it with a violin (not a bow, an entire violin). The guitar is making the expected raucous mess of feedback and noise, but he pauses as if something is not quite right ... and tunes the *violin*.

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http://youtube.com/watch?v=4FuAUaJflRs

most hilarious scene ever.

[mused01]

Sorry if I'm hijicking the thread but i just love this movie. heres another great scene:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=kPq0weuyc...ed&search=

[youtalkfunny]

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Another scene like this is in Goodfellas. The shot is just 30 seconds of Deniro sitting at the bar by himself smoking while Sunshine of Your Love plays. Sitting there, he looks ready to jump off the bar stool and rip your guts out.

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This is the moment that DeNiro has the brilliant idea that the best way to keep these idiots from tipping off the cops (they were all buying mink coats and Cadillacs) is to whack them all. Watch it again, here, in a YouTube clip titled "'Jimmy decides to whack his gang' shot".

You can almost read his thoughts. "Hey, wait a second--I can just whack all of them! Yeah, that might work! Phew, that solves everything. Hey, I'm pretty smart for thinking that! I'm going to savor this moment (takes huge drag on cigarette). Ah, I feel better now..."

When you see that right eyebrow shoot up, and the twinkle in his eye at the 0:10 mark, that's the "Yeah, that would solve everything!" moment.

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Perhaps Scorcese made it too subtle.

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[Jay Riall]

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But I guess it's coming from someone who can't spell "tons"

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er, he's english

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I know; I was just ribbing him/her.

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Good one.

I also get really offended when people say 'you can't spell moran!' when I spell words like realised with an s instead of a z.

[quirkasaurus]

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 ?

[otnemem]

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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.'

[BigPoppa]

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Woody: What are you doing Saturday night ?

Girl: Committing suicide.

Woody: What are you doing Friday night ?


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Maybe not subtle, but funny as hell.