# TCM promo question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tcm-promo-question/773807>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 4, 2016, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tcm-promo-question/773807 "2016-12-04T06:43:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2016, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tcm-promo-question/773807/1 "2016-12-04T06:43:08Z")

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TCM showed one of their promos recently, dozens of snippets of mostly famous scenes from old movies. A couple of them had people falling, and one in particular intrigued me. It appeared to be a man in a suit falling through the air, face down, shot from above, as though falling from an airplane. What movie?

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**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2016, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tcm-promo-question/773807/2 "2016-12-04T07:48:04Z")

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More details would help, but The Hudsucker Proxy had a scene like that - the POV of the shot changes a few times over the course of the scene, but there’s several seconds of it from the POV you describe.

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**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2016, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tcm-promo-question/773807/3 "2016-12-04T07:50:58Z")

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[The scene in question.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMqX7BvUGaw)

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**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2016, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tcm-promo-question/773807/4 "2016-12-04T17:00:53Z")

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> [@Kamino\_Neko](#):
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> [The scene in question.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMqX7BvUGaw)

That’s probably it. I don’t remember it appearing as if he was falling from a building, but then it flashed past pretty fast.

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**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2016, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tcm-promo-question/773807/5 "2016-12-04T17:20:14Z")

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Heh. I thought it was going to turn out to be [the opening sequence to MOONRAKER,](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4G4zT2X8MT0) where James Bond doesn’t let a little thing like _“not having a parachute”_ bother him, because he can streamline his slacks-and-blazer-and-turtleneck-clad self to expertly skydive down at that unsuspecting chap who (a) currently _has_ a parachute, and (b) doesn’t realize he’s about to be grappled in free-fall by the world’s greatest killer.

(Tell me again how superhero films are a recent phenomenon.)