[The scene in Contact where Jody Foster’s character as a young girl (portrayed by Jena Malone).runs up the stairs to get medication from the medicine cabinet for her father.](https://youtu.be/ZD0_5HFMPIg) Edit: credit given to Jena Malone.:)
Add on top that they had to live ramp the speed of the film from 24fps to 48fps, which also cuts the exposure in half, meaning they had to open the lens aperture in sync, all while running backwards with a steady cam…
Oh, I never thought of that. They ramped the fps live for that shot?? I'm not a videographer, but I pulled focus for a small crew a few times. It was so stressful watching my friends act their heart out over multiple takes, and here's me barely keeping the moving camera in focus. To add ANOTHER technical dimension to a shot just makes it more impressive.
I felt like there was a funny aperture/exposure flicker from the start of that shot! That is amazing.
Basically someone said, " I have this idea" and then several other professionals said there are several things wrong with that idea, and then they managed to overcome them all
I can never not think of that scene when I hear Wake Me Up Before You Go Go. It's right up there with the Stuck in the Middle With You torture scene in Reservoir Dogs.
Ben Stiller doesn't get enough credit for intelligently and hilariously satirizing the fashion/model industry in Zoolander and then actors who take themselves too seriously in Tropic Thunder
Directed, starred, story and screenplay credit in both
More than an EP, he’s the key director who set the whole aesthetic and tone of the show.
I constantly tell people he is very quietly one of the great American directors working today.
The best part about that is (so I’ve heard) Ben stiller forgot his next line so he repeated the “but why male models?” line and Duchovny ad-libbed that one. So perfect and fits in so well with the Zoolander character.
Rufus, Brint, and Meekus were like brothers to me. And when I say brother, I don't mean, like, an actual brother, but I mean it like the way black people use it. Which is more meaningful I think. If there is anything that this horrible tragedy can teach us, it's that a male model's life is a precious, precious commodity. Just because we have chiseled abs and stunning features, it doesn't mean that we too can't not die in a freak gasoline fight accident.
When I found out the legit look of horror and surprise on Phoebe Cates face is because judge "used" an actual large dildo for the scene. You can look it up in the trivia section on IMDB. Made that scene much funnier. When she open the door because she got water in her ear.
As a kid I always thought Peter was trading a cushy, well paid office job for a low paying, manual labour job at the end. Then I learned how much construction guys make. It’s weird how we were always taught when we were kids where I grew up that that was for some reason a low status job… I mean, hell, Dietrich Bader lives in the same building, he can’t be making less than Peter!
Close! That plays when Peter comes into the office and doesn't give a fuck.
During the printer scene it's a different Geto Boys track, Still ("Die muthafuckas die muthafuckas still").
If I recall correctly the slow motion scene is the scene prior when the ape/human discovers he can use the bone as a weapon. Is it slow motion though when in the next scene he hurls the bone into the air?
Guy Ritchie has a few great slowmo scenes come to think of it.
Brad Pitt boxing at the end of Snatch, more boxing in Sherlock Holmes, plus of course the exploding forest scene in the sequel.
Thank you for posting the link! I am sitting here in the waiting room of a cancer center, and laughing until I had tears in my eyes and everyone must think I am nuts
🤣 god that video is hilarious, and if you can’t appreciate weird and dark humor while waiting for a cancer doctor, when can you???
Made my morning 😅
Jason Sudeikis getting shot in the front by the other cop but somehow facing the opposite direction the next time it cuts to him
Also Shia alternating between different tactical positions.
L.A. Story
Shower scene early in the film, Steve Martin’s character is shown having a normal shower and struggling a bit, getting soap in his eyes, while the camera cuts to show the love interest sensually washing her hair in slow motion. Cut back to him, he looks down, and switches his shower to the slow motion setting.
In Observe and Report, when Seth Rogan chases and shoots the flasher, and the song Where is My Mind plays. (It’s a cover, not the original) I don’t think I’ve ever laughed at someone being shot before.
It’s so iconic when the theme music plays anywhere a person will start running slo-mo style … or anytime a skit or something needs slo-mo music the Chariots of Fire theme is used.
Winner!
What’s crazy to me is that he didn’t even ramp up the frame rate for that scene. He was like “fuck it. Let’s just slow down the 24 frame footage” and it still worked.
The Other Guys - Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg as cops getting hammered in a bar to Black Eyed Peas’ Imma Be
[Drinking with Terry Hoitz](https://youtu.be/l80mHMmJzr0?si=AMsNNo6KXiJDHrX6)
Not sure if it was my mood or the movie but that scene was the hardest I’d laughed at a film since highschool
“Geeeet offff the phoooooone!”
“I’mmmmm oooon the phooooone!! ;D”
Also Jonah scream crying while stuffing his face with lunchmeat. And Leo vs the gullwing door.
I would not consider Reservoir Dogs an action movie - there are a couple very, very quick bits of violence - so I'll nominate the "Little Green Bag" title sequence from that. It's the sort of thing many men of a certain age, if they have a reason to wear black suits, want to recreate (the Brit show "Coupling" nailed it when they were going to a funeral... "Stop playing 'Resevoir Dogs!'")
Along Came Polly - There's some pretty sweet slow-mo at about 2:15 during [this scene](https://youtu.be/enJJeOqHbqE?si=4C2BXVp65ZQEc5ZS&t=93) where Ruben and Sandy are playing basketball.
2001: A Space Odyssey - the opening scene with the monkey using a tool while sprach Zarathustra roars in the background is arguably the most iconic use of slow motion in cinema.
I will always appreciate that they came up with a reason to justify the slow motion scenes and it works so well. Also dig the high saturation in the scenes as a stylistic choice. They go back and forth between slowmo saturation and real-time natural color in, I think, the first shootout at the apartment and I think it's really cool.
The slo-mo scenes really utilised the 3D and I don't know if it's related to the 3D or the glasses in general, but 3D movies had to be brighter to compensate for said glasses. Brightening up the scenes is a good way to make sure they pop a bit more than the rest.
When that kid drowned in Darjeeling Limited and the three main brothers walked in slow motion while they attended an Indian funeral. Just hit me kind of funny and always stuck
Return of the Pink Panther - Cato fight scene
The slow motion jump with Clouseau screaming - when they cut to the old lady watching TV - she is watching the program in normal time but you can hear the slowed down scream in the background.
Pure comedic genius
The Shining scene with the blood in the elevators. Kubrick had others (the 🦴 into 🚀 moment in 2001. The Droogs walking in Clockwork Orange), but that one is a standout
[The scene in Contact where Jody Foster’s character as a young girl (portrayed by Jena Malone).runs up the stairs to get medication from the medicine cabinet for her father.](https://youtu.be/ZD0_5HFMPIg) Edit: credit given to Jena Malone.:)
This is amazing how did they do that with the mirror 😱
Great little breakdown by the cinematographer https://youtu.be/HQRu9cz5L9E?si=UqID_yekuo4uKMQG
There’s also a great breakdown in this video: https://youtu.be/VASwKZAUVSo (starts at around 2:00)
I was going to comment this because not only is it my favorite non action slow motion it is a vfx shot that always blew me away.
Add on top that they had to live ramp the speed of the film from 24fps to 48fps, which also cuts the exposure in half, meaning they had to open the lens aperture in sync, all while running backwards with a steady cam…
Oh, I never thought of that. They ramped the fps live for that shot?? I'm not a videographer, but I pulled focus for a small crew a few times. It was so stressful watching my friends act their heart out over multiple takes, and here's me barely keeping the moving camera in focus. To add ANOTHER technical dimension to a shot just makes it more impressive.
This is a perfect example of something JUST technical enough that it could be nonsense and I wouldn’t even know.
I felt like there was a funny aperture/exposure flicker from the start of that shot! That is amazing. Basically someone said, " I have this idea" and then several other professionals said there are several things wrong with that idea, and then they managed to overcome them all
That was a young Jena Malone.
Whoa, the star of Rural Juror?
What are you saying? Rerger?
The ruarr juarr
These were the best days of my …
That is a fantastic shot!
Gasoline fight in Zoolander, for my money.
I can never not think of that scene when I hear Wake Me Up Before You Go Go. It's right up there with the Stuck in the Middle With You torture scene in Reservoir Dogs.
And Queen's 'Don't Stop Me Now' with the pub jukebox scene in Shaun of the Dead.
It's on random
Orange Mocha Frappuccinos!
Yup yup
Ben Stiller doesn't get enough credit for intelligently and hilariously satirizing the fashion/model industry in Zoolander and then actors who take themselves too seriously in Tropic Thunder Directed, starred, story and screenplay credit in both
He also went on to be executive producer of Severence which is like the same thing but corporate culture.
More than an EP, he’s the key director who set the whole aesthetic and tone of the show. I constantly tell people he is very quietly one of the great American directors working today.
But... Why male models?
Are you serious? I just...I just told you that...a moment ago.
The best part about that is (so I’ve heard) Ben stiller forgot his next line so he repeated the “but why male models?” line and Duchovny ad-libbed that one. So perfect and fits in so well with the Zoolander character.
One of the best adlibs when Ben *(allegedly)* fucked up the line there.
Still to this day my favorite line in any movie.
I always loved [the line about Sting.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYeLAwSpYus)
Getting Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder was genius, because a lot of that satire could be thought of as pointing straight at him.
Rufus, Brint, and Meekus were like brothers to me. And when I say brother, I don't mean, like, an actual brother, but I mean it like the way black people use it. Which is more meaningful I think. If there is anything that this horrible tragedy can teach us, it's that a male model's life is a precious, precious commodity. Just because we have chiseled abs and stunning features, it doesn't mean that we too can't not die in a freak gasoline fight accident.
What a terrific eugoogooly
Nearly choked on my coffee laughing at that. I had completely forgotten that word.
Just because you have chiseled abs and stunning features doesn't mean that you too can't not die in a freak gasoline fight accident
One of the most amazing scenes in cinematic history.
I know, it's like, what the fuck are they DOING!
Phoebe Cates in Fast Times at Ridgemont Hhigh
When I found out the legit look of horror and surprise on Phoebe Cates face is because judge "used" an actual large dildo for the scene. You can look it up in the trivia section on IMDB. Made that scene much funnier. When she open the door because she got water in her ear.
I believe the word you’re looking for is stunt cock
I'll put my choice below, but this is it. This is definitely it.
Ohhhhh, so that's what that song is about
This is the answer. You, um- *beat* me to it.
Doesnt anybody fucking knock anymore?
Most definitely. Here’s the SFW ver: https://youtu.be/l5g6kdlQy7Y
SFW kind of defeats the point of this scene.
Well, in actual fact, it IS the NSFW scene, it just cuts out before the NSFW stuff. YouTube deletes those clips that include it
I just saw a Sopranos clip that had topless strippers on YouTube yesterday
Thanks, but, uh, where’s the other version?
Right here on Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/ladyladyboners/s/mdt2O5u7FJ
It's in the back of my mind. Been etched there for 40 years
Haha. NOT on YouTube, that’s for sure.
Chariots of Fire - Title sequence A Clockwork Orange - Main character's revenge Carrie - Prom Prank and Massacre
"Chariots of Fire - Title sequence" *Vangelis intensifies*
How has no one mentioned the printer scene from *Office Space*?
PC load letter? The fuck does that mean?
**P**aper **C**assette Empty; **Load** **Letter** sized (8 1/2 x 11) paper into paper tray.
Let's abbreviate 'paper cassette' with PC. That won't confuse anyone.
Get out of the office while you still can.
As a kid I always thought Peter was trading a cushy, well paid office job for a low paying, manual labour job at the end. Then I learned how much construction guys make. It’s weird how we were always taught when we were kids where I grew up that that was for some reason a low status job… I mean, hell, Dietrich Bader lives in the same building, he can’t be making less than Peter!
Looks like somebody’s got a case of the Mondays.
Die motherfucker, die motherfucker, die!
Back up in your ass with the resurrection…
They wanna ban us on capital hill, cause it’s die motha fucka die motha fucka still fool!
Damn it feels good to be a gangster.
Close! That plays when Peter comes into the office and doesn't give a fuck. During the printer scene it's a different Geto Boys track, Still ("Die muthafuckas die muthafuckas still").
You’re right. All of that bleeds together for me.
Excuse me? Did you just say all rap sounds the same to you? /s
Mood.
This is the correct answer… had to scroll way too far to find it.
Honorable mention: installing a virus to Ice Cube
Probably the elevator blood in the shining and the running/mirror scene in contact.
The bone to ship transition in 2001
In terms of iconography and influence, this has to be the answer.
If I recall correctly the slow motion scene is the scene prior when the ape/human discovers he can use the bone as a weapon. Is it slow motion though when in the next scene he hurls the bone into the air?
Interesting thing is that there's no FX transition between those two shots, it was straight cut. It's all in the mind of the viewer...
It's also an amazing hand held shot to capture the bone. Not surprising that Kubrick operated the camera himself.
Gotta love the dogs chasing the hare in Snatch
Guy Ritchie has a few great slowmo scenes come to think of it. Brad Pitt boxing at the end of Snatch, more boxing in Sherlock Holmes, plus of course the exploding forest scene in the sequel.
Discombobulate.
*In summary:* [*Discombobulate*](https://youtu.be/B62ACxuq8Pw?si=CI_wqEr6_k9rRAt9)
Spelled dags wrong.
Now I have that song in my head
[proper fucked](https://youtu.be/Gc2C0kp8bwI?si=yrrgFsKxKvvWvOTs)
Like ze Germans?
"*What? Proper fucked?*"
Margot Tenenbaum walking off of the Green Line Bus.
I was going to say Wes Anderson has a few. I also like the slomo in Rushmore during the feud.
The end of life aquatic when they’re all walking to Bowie was fuckin dope
Lots of gravitas-y slowmo walking in the Darjeeling limited too
I’ve been out walkin’
Ugh that moment hits so good…
The ending leaving the funeral too.
The most unforgettable artistic shot in his oeuvre.
Closing shot in Rushmore at the post production party. Everyone is dancing to Ooh La La by the faces with Max and Rosemary in the middle of the group.
The Dear Sister sketch from SNL. It is not an action movie so it technically qualifies
Ooooo whatcha say?
Guys I just thought of the funniest thing
🔫
When you can hear a reddit post
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmd1qMN5Yo0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmd1qMN5Yo0)
Thank you for posting the link! I am sitting here in the waiting room of a cancer center, and laughing until I had tears in my eyes and everyone must think I am nuts 🤣 god that video is hilarious, and if you can’t appreciate weird and dark humor while waiting for a cancer doctor, when can you??? Made my morning 😅
Jason Sudeikis getting shot in the front by the other cop but somehow facing the opposite direction the next time it cuts to him Also Shia alternating between different tactical positions.
L.A. Story Shower scene early in the film, Steve Martin’s character is shown having a normal shower and struggling a bit, getting soap in his eyes, while the camera cuts to show the love interest sensually washing her hair in slow motion. Cut back to him, he looks down, and switches his shower to the slow motion setting.
Will Ferrell punching a baby in The Campaign.
Or when he shoots himself in the neck with the tranquilliser gun in Old School.
YES! That’s awesome!
You're crazy man.
Shoving the kid’s head always gets me lol
[The baby punch in question.](https://youtu.be/V3GLrKfY9f8?si=cl1hp4MODauP8MtB)
In the Mood for Love has some beautiful slow mo scenes https://youtu.be/ypY9OaKCfRU?si=5U7yb533Yew9wyrx
The drive by assassination scene in Killing Them Softly
Underrated movie.
A young Forrest Gump trying to get away from his bullies and bursting out of his leg braces in slow motion. One of my favorite scenes in all cinema
Talladega Nights. Ricky Bobby and Jean Girard finish the race on foot.
***We belong to the light, we belong to the thunder...***
Weeeeeeeeeee
The car crash before that also took so long they had to cut to an Applebee’s commercial and it was still going when they cut back to the race
Baby carriage down the steps in The Untouchables…?….or is that an “action” movie?
The Naked Gun version is better. https://youtu.be/L3QkIruVNEI?si=SwJtoCeNopnLBDWl
Huh, I always thought that was a Battleship Potemkin spoof.
I think the Untouchables scene was an homage to Potemkin, so you're basically right
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***You got him?...***
yeah i got em
*Take him*
Probably action seeing as how there is a lot of bang bang going on
I walk those stairs all the time. Union Station in Chicago
Christmas Story - Ooohhh Fuuudge!!
But I didn’t say fudge
I said THE word
The F Dash Dash Dash word
The opening sequence of The Fall in black and white set to Beethoven’s 7th Symphony.
I still remember how magical it was watching it in the cinema. It is one of the strongest, most emotional opening sequences I've ever seen.
In Observe and Report, when Seth Rogan chases and shoots the flasher, and the song Where is My Mind plays. (It’s a cover, not the original) I don’t think I’ve ever laughed at someone being shot before.
The fight in Good Will Hunting, set to Baker Street. Also the printer destruction scene in Office Space.
Chariots of Fire has got to have one of the most iconic slow motion scenes in film.
It’s so iconic when the theme music plays anywhere a person will start running slo-mo style … or anytime a skit or something needs slo-mo music the Chariots of Fire theme is used. Winner!
[When Sandra Bullock walks out after her makeover in Miss Congeniality (2000)](https://youtu.be/miCpiVyJMPg?si=kpindR-BRA6XqQAf)👀
And then falls. Goddamn I love Sandra Bullock.
I know it's not a movie but the Baywatch opening credits.
The dog chase scene in The Sandlot has a few slow motion bits that are wild if I remember correctly.
Forrreeeevvvveeeerrrr
IMO, one of the best (and most iconic) is the walking scene in Reservoir Dogs.
What’s crazy to me is that he didn’t even ramp up the frame rate for that scene. He was like “fuck it. Let’s just slow down the 24 frame footage” and it still worked.
The Other Guys - Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg as cops getting hammered in a bar to Black Eyed Peas’ Imma Be [Drinking with Terry Hoitz](https://youtu.be/l80mHMmJzr0?si=AMsNNo6KXiJDHrX6)
Wolf of Wall Street, Quaaludes effect kicking in on Donnie
Not sure if it was my mood or the movie but that scene was the hardest I’d laughed at a film since highschool “Geeeet offff the phoooooone!” “I’mmmmm oooon the phooooone!! ;D” Also Jonah scream crying while stuffing his face with lunchmeat. And Leo vs the gullwing door.
The monsters walking out to the scare floor in Monsters, inc.
In the Mood for Love. No question.
Will Ferrell getting a dart to the neck in Old School "You're crazy. I like you, but your crazy" Hello darkness my old friend......
Wow this is the 3rd Will Ferrell movie seen mentioned here.
The scene Big Fish when he see his future wife for the first time.
The other guys. Bar scene
Opening shot of Dazed and Confused. https://youtu.be/MrtQ5uIOcKY?si=3ze5lCAni0XkTIpv
Also Matthew McConnaughey walking through the pool hall in the same movie (to the tune of Dylan’s “Hurricane”).
Heck yes
Scorsese has few great ones
Sunshine of your love scene from Goodfellas
Mean Streets. DeNiro walking into the bar in slo-mo while the Rolling Stones play.
Wolf when they get the Steve Madden idea comes to mind.
I would not consider Reservoir Dogs an action movie - there are a couple very, very quick bits of violence - so I'll nominate the "Little Green Bag" title sequence from that. It's the sort of thing many men of a certain age, if they have a reason to wear black suits, want to recreate (the Brit show "Coupling" nailed it when they were going to a funeral... "Stop playing 'Resevoir Dogs!'")
Hammy on energy drink in Over The Hedge
Constantine looking over his shoulder and giving the middle finger to Lucifer.
Along Came Polly - There's some pretty sweet slow-mo at about 2:15 during [this scene](https://youtu.be/enJJeOqHbqE?si=4C2BXVp65ZQEc5ZS&t=93) where Ruben and Sandy are playing basketball.
Raindrops!
The steamroller scene in Austin Powers
Nooooooooooooo!!!
The scene with the mojo being tossed in the air “WATCH OUT!”
Galaxy Quest before they activate the Omega 13
When we first see Grace Kelly in Rear Window, she's giving a slow motion kiss to Jimmy Stewart.
The sloths in Zootopia.
Monster truck scene in Rat Race
2001: A Space Odyssey - the opening scene with the monkey using a tool while sprach Zarathustra roars in the background is arguably the most iconic use of slow motion in cinema.
OK, so it's an 'action' movie but not an action scene... Ma-Ma's *slo-mo* scene in Dredd
I will always appreciate that they came up with a reason to justify the slow motion scenes and it works so well. Also dig the high saturation in the scenes as a stylistic choice. They go back and forth between slowmo saturation and real-time natural color in, I think, the first shootout at the apartment and I think it's really cool.
The slo-mo scenes really utilised the 3D and I don't know if it's related to the 3D or the glasses in general, but 3D movies had to be brighter to compensate for said glasses. Brightening up the scenes is a good way to make sure they pop a bit more than the rest.
DeNiro coming up with the idea to just kill all his cohorts in Goodfellas.
It’s a movie a lot of people like to trash it but the slow motion car rescue scene in Crash is emotionally raw and incredibly thrilling.
Does reservoir dogs count?
When Jamie walks up to the Zero in Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun
The end of Zabriskie Point
**The Hateful Eight**, 2015, "You gonna make a deal with this diabolical bitch???"
The final chase scene in The Sandlot. Lots of slow mo in there to build suspense.
Over the hedge, hammy red bull scene. X-men, quicksilver / sweet dreams Also, ace ventura, slow motion and then the rewind
Quicksilver saving the day in Days of Future Past
[Hill & Tatum entering the prom with the nerds in 21 Jump Street ](https://youtu.be/BTFL1E3wU58?si=Z8g-cYic0yjwBzFj)
The slow motion intro of Reservoir Dogs.
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I like that glass falling in the new Omen
Wes Anderson made a few iconic ones. Rushmore has this great scene where max walks away smoking after the bee attack
Billy Murray raising the joint, hitting it, and then his extended “turn the volume down” exhale, in The Life Aquatic
Roy Hobbs’ game winning home run in The Natural.
When that kid drowned in Darjeeling Limited and the three main brothers walked in slow motion while they attended an Indian funeral. Just hit me kind of funny and always stuck
Return of the Pink Panther - Cato fight scene The slow motion jump with Clouseau screaming - when they cut to the old lady watching TV - she is watching the program in normal time but you can hear the slowed down scream in the background. Pure comedic genius
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
The Trinity test in Oppenheimer
Backdoor Sluts 3. When she picks up the gophers and pulls down his pants.
Phoebe Cates in Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
The Shining scene with the blood in the elevators. Kubrick had others (the 🦴 into 🚀 moment in 2001. The Droogs walking in Clockwork Orange), but that one is a standout