Do you mean, barf visibly on screen, flowing puke visible? Or just implied vomiting? And do sounds have to be present?
Because I’m thinking of the scene in Bullitt where Jacqueline Bisset runs out of her car and bends over momentarily and then “stands moodily” looking at the ocean. You’re supposed to know she upchucked after seeing the murdered girl, but I think it’s too subtle. Maybe she’s just sad? I’d rather have seen a bit more to make it clear HOW upset she was a learning HOW bad the “cesspool” Frank works in really is. But this was 1968 and I’m sure they couldn’t show it.
I’m going to hurl at your misuse of French. The phrase you want is “act du jour”, literally the “act of the day”. De Jure is a Latin phrase meaning “by law”, as opposed to "de facto, “in fact”.
It’s the scenes where the actor has a mouthful of some sort of colored liquid, then ejects it whilst bent over. It’s not even convincing as vomit, and contributes nothing to the story other than a supposed ‘eww factor’. For me, it just elicits a big :rolleyes:.
Not to be argumentative, but to you, a person running out of her car and bending over doesn’t translate to throwing up?Seeing the actual matter coming out of her mouth would have somehow conveyed more accurately exactly *how *upset she was? I don’t get this at all, but perhaps you’re view is the more popular one and the reason why graphic scenes are so prevalent these days. So, in other words, it’s all your fault
Also, because some of the examples above didn’t seem to be visible puke scenes, like American Graffiti. I could be remembering wrong, but I thought that was “bent over with sound effect”, not visible spew. A lot of shows I watch have implied vomit, where there is bending action combined with retching sound effects, but no visible vomitus. I think this is acceptable, but considering that this is the SD, and there are posters that get upset at someone eating a Kit-Kat on TV, I wanted to be sure what we were talking about.
I chose that scene in Bullitt specifically because I was never sure she was really puking out there in the weeds. I mean, yes it makes sense that she did, but so does that she just needed a bit of fresh air to clear her head (so she didn’t puke). She was only seen bending over for about a second, and it was more of a bow than a on-your-knees hurlation.
The scene emphasizes that she hadn’t really come to terms with the brutal reality of Bullitt’s job. But, if it was* that* shocking, wouldn’t she have thrown up at the crimescene, rather than what is certainly a while later (even an hour or more later) somewhere on the road back to SF? So that’s why I would have preferred a bit more clarity in the scene. Sound=good, spew=unnecessary
The first movie I can remember where a character visibly barfed (actual puke, not just bending over and making noise) was 1970’s Brewster McCloud. Directed by Robert Altman, barf by Shelley Duvall.
Of course The Exorcist came along three years later and no one remembered Duvall’s minor stomach upset.
There’s a graphic vomit scene in “Unbroken”, but it’s relevant to the plot. Things like that don’t bother me. (They’re floating on a raft in the middle of the ocean, and catch a bird and eat it even though it’s obviously diseased, and regret it a few minutes later.) There’s also an off-camera vomit scene in “42”, and it’s because she’s pregnant.
They have puking and farting in games, too. I have the Sims FreePlay on my phone. If you shake the phone, all of your on-screen Sims will puke violently. Then you get to clean it up.
If you have a Sim be funny to another Sim, that Sim will cut the cheese, then the other Sim will fan at the air in front of his or her face.
I don’t recall if they showed actual vomit spewing out, but it was indeed pretty graphic. It was so graphic in fact that a fellow Poldark fan felt compelled to mention it to me and a group of other people.
That’s just it. When did it become the law that every TV show feature vomiting and/or peeing and/or nosebleeds?
At one point I had sworn off ER because of an “average” nosebleed scene, just one of a cluster of such I had seen in everything I watched. I had switched away from some other show when I unwittingly came upon ER just as they say they need to cut up in the person’s nose to relieve pressure – and blood gushed out of the nose like a waterfall. An above-average nosebleed scene. My vision goes grey just thinking about it.
