Travolta also often has a dancing scene in his movies, which I suppose is understandable.
Which brings to mind Uma Thurman, who seems to favor close-ups of her huge-ass feet.
Jennifer Jason Leigh seems to always get sexually abused in her movies. Along the same lines, I thought that Susan Sarandon had a “nudity required” clause in her films for a good stretch there in the 80’s and 90’s.
Since we’ve also started mentioning directors, all of Stanley Kubrick’s films feature a pivotal scene that takes place in a bathroom.
Please to add:
7. The Money Pit
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Scarlett Johannsen:
(mouth hanging open like a big dumb fish)
- Everything I’ve ever seen her in.
Eddie Murphy:
“the laugh.” You know the one I mean.
He’s been absent as a big star for a long time, but:
Andrew McCarthy with a stunned/shocked/flabergasted/just-won-the-Publishers-Clearing-House-Sweepstakes expression on his face.
Isn’t that a Tarantino thing?
I suppose it is – Tarantino + Thurman.
So maybe we can further refine the thread to combinations of a certain actor plus a certain director. Johnny Depp plus Tim Burton would probably yield another page’s worth of material.
A few weeks ago The Onion reported that Tim Burton traded Johnny Depp to Ridley Scott for Russell Crowe. Just so you know.
Liam Neeson seems to die in a lot of the movies he is in - to the point where his ‘appearance’ in Fallout 3 made me say “so, when is daddy gonna die?”
Oddly enough, I think he survived in a horror movie.
I’m trying to figure out if the Jeff Goldblum I’m-a-sexy-hairy-nerd-trying-to-look-intense stare is just part of him as a person or what he does as an actor. I think it might be the latter, but it’s by turns freaky, annoying and silly. Particularly since he is not and never was sexy and when he’s attempting to look intense, he looks constipated.
Another Kubrick signature scene:
He loved long static shots, with the entire scene in focus from deep to shallow depth. The action would start at the further end from the camera and move to the closer, shallow end. Like in Clockwork Orange, with David Prowse carrying the writer in his wheelchair from the far end of the room to the near end. Like The Shining, in that weird bathroom, with Jack Nicholson and the bartender starting in the far end and approaching closer to the camera, always staying in perfect focus.
Sometimes he’d alter the nature of this scenario, and have something seemingly happening in the foreground while the source of tension in the scene was in the background. Reference Dave and Frank conversing about unplugging Hal while Hal’s unwinking eye stares, directly centered, at them in 2001. Or Spartacus and his assigned combatant regarding each other while between them in the background, screened, are gladiators murdering each other. (The last two scenes are very similar.)
There was no one like Kubrick for eerie tension, just from the way a scene was filmed.
I just saw Cast Away a few days ago. When does Tom Hanks’ character urinate on-screen?
Two from Lord of the Rings: Ian McKellen (Gandalf) winks in all 3 movies.
And Sean Bean tries to work the word “sharp” into his dialog, as a shout-out to his breakthrough role as Richard Sharpe.
The first or second night he is on the island. He gets up while it is still dark and pees in the ocean. While is is concentrating on doing his business, there is a blinking light on the horizon.
Yes, but what about his movies?
It’s tv and not movies, and only in 2 series I have seen, but Bryan Cranston sure seems to like to strip down to his undies.
If you saw it on TV, they probably cut it out. I was really shocked when the tv version of Terminator cut Arnie’s bare butt scene.
Imagine how shocked I was as a teenager when I saw the uncut version of Fast Times at Ridgmont High.
Ahhh, forget you, you farging iceholes.
Biehn’s character does NOT die in Aliens.
But, he does die in Alien^3.