What Are Your Favorite Scenes in Movies or TV Shows?

Trollheart · 07-15-2022, 02:21 PM

I far prefer the original.

BassoonPlatoon · 07-16-2022, 11:12 AM

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

**Frownland** · 07-29-2022, 12:18 AM

ribbons · 07-29-2022, 07:30 PM

We had to read Rhinoceros in AP English in high school. So delightfully bizarre. Well, of all things! I don't know why I've never watched the film. Gene Wilder is amazing in that scene, as he was in most things.

Which reminds me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpK36FZmTFY

SGR · 07-29-2022, 07:35 PM

**Frownland** · 07-29-2022, 07:50 PM

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Originally Posted by ribbons

We had to read Rhinoceros in AP English in high school. So delightfully bizarre. Well, of all things! I don't know why I've never watched the film. Gene Wilder is amazing in that scene, as he was in most things.

Wilder and the ending are great for sure but unfortunately I found the movie pretty lacking. It was very much like a made-for-television play with little cinematic elements. The cinematic elements that were present were largely to frame the comedic aspects of the play, which makes it part of a trend of readings that take Ionesco's ironies and cheapen them into punchline format in a way that undermines the message. That's more of a personal contention really, I'm not sure how Ionesco viewed his work or what the original performances were like.

ribbons · 07-29-2022, 08:00 PM

"Nothing human disgusts me, Mr. Shannon. Unless it's unkind, or violent."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU0xCw52YOs

Paul Smeenus · 07-29-2022, 08:02 PM

ribbons · 07-29-2022, 08:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Wilder and the ending are great for sure but unfortunately I found the movie pretty lacking. It was very much like a made-for-television play with little cinematic elements. The cinematic elements that were present were largely to frame the comedic aspects of the play, which makes it part of a trend of readings that take Ionesco's ironies and cheapen them into punchline format in a way that undermines the message. That's more of a personal contention really, I'm not sure how Ionesco viewed his work or what the original performances were like.

I can easily envision how that can happen in interpreting Ionesco's very complex work. Thanks for the warning. I'd love to see a good onstage performance of the play (as challenging as that might be to produce).

ribbons · 07-29-2022, 08:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Paul Smeenus

And I'll bet you never want her to STFU.

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07-29-2022, 07:30 PM	#294 (permalink)
ribbons Music Addict Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 1,265	We had to read Rhinoceros in AP English in high school. So delightfully bizarre. Well, of all things! I don't know why I've never watched the film. Gene Wilder is amazing in that scene, as he was in most things. Which reminds me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpK36FZmTFY

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07-29-2022, 08:00 PM	#297 (permalink)
ribbons Music Addict Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 1,265	"Nothing human disgusts me, Mr. Shannon. Unless it's unkind, or violent." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU0xCw52YOs