# Where is this scene from? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 14, 2016, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-scene-from/752165 "2016-04-14T04:53:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SimonOnMars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SimonOnMars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SimonOnMars)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2016, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-scene-from/752165/1 "2016-04-14T04:53:19Z")
Black and white film. Dennis Hopper and Bruno Ganz (I think) on a boat on a river, with reeds. I was absolutely sure this was from Wenders’ ‘The American Friend’ But I just watched it and the film’s in colour and there’s no such scene. Two men, in a boat, on a river, with reeds, black and white… help! ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2016, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-scene-from/752165/2 "2016-04-14T07:49:24Z")
Are you sure it’s a scene (as in, you saw a whole clip), and not just B&W behind-the scenes still shots, [like these](http://cinearchive.org/post/82148859891/dennis-hopper-wim-wenders-bruno-ganz-and)from a magazine? ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e47774/32.png) [@quiltguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2016, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-scene-from/752165/3 "2016-04-14T14:18:17Z")
> [@SimonOnMars](#): > > Black and white film. Dennis Hopper and Bruno Ganz (I think) on a boat on a river, with reeds. I was absolutely sure this was from Wenders’ ‘The American Friend’ But I just watched it and the film’s in colour and there’s no such scene. > > Two men, in a boat, on a river, with reeds, black and white… help! Did this also entail tangerine trees and marmalade skies? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SimonOnMars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SimonOnMars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SimonOnMars)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2016, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-scene-from/752165/4 "2016-04-14T14:39:47Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Are you sure it’s a scene (as in, you saw a whole clip), and not just B&W behind-the scenes still shots, [like these](http://cinearchive.org/post/82148859891/dennis-hopper-wim-wenders-bruno-ganz-and)from a magazine? I remember this scene clearly. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![SimonOnMars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SimonOnMars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SimonOnMars)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2016, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-scene-from/752165/5 "2016-04-14T14:43:54Z")
> [@quiltguy](#): > > Did this also entail tangerine trees and marmalade skies? 😃 🙂 I thought of that line as I was writing the question…but no… ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2016, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-scene-from/752165/6 "2016-04-14T15:02:57Z")
> [@quiltguy](#): > > Did this also entail tangerine trees and marmalade skies? 😃 True fact: Dennis Hopper did so many drugs from 1968 to 1978, you could get a contact high just from watching one of his movies. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2016, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-scene-from/752165/7 "2016-04-14T15:21:06Z")
I just checked Hopper’s IMDB listing. He made five black and white movies: _Key Witness_ (1960) (a crime thriller about bikers); _Night Tide_ (1961) (a horror movie about a mermaid); _Tarzan and Jane Regained… Sort of_ (1964) and _The Thirteen Most Beautiful Boys_ (1964) (which were Andy Warhol films); and _The Sorceror’s Apprentice_ (1977) (a political comedy). It’s also possible you’re thinking of an episode of a TV series or that you were watching a color movie on a black and white TV. ---
**Author:** ![SimonOnMars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SimonOnMars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SimonOnMars)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2016, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-scene-from/752165/8 "2016-04-14T15:34:05Z")
Maybe it wasn’t Dennis Hopper? Interesting point about the TV. Hm. Two men, a boat, river, reeds, a B&W film which I was convinced was Wender’s, but maybe not…they’re floating along in quiet friendship… This is killing me…I remember CLEAR as daylight something which may not exist. :o ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2016, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-scene-from/752165/9 "2016-04-14T15:38:29Z")
> [@SimonOnMars](#): > > Black and white film. Dennis Hopper and Bruno Ganz (I think) on a boat on a river, with reeds. Are you sure, because if it was actually Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn, odds are you were watching _The African Queen_. Oh, wait, that was in colour. Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![SimonOnMars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SimonOnMars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SimonOnMars)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2016, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-scene-from/752165/10 "2016-04-14T15:53:44Z")
I’m going to e-mail him…or rather his office… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2016, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-scene-from/752165/11 "2016-04-14T16:56:57Z")
Is anyone else reminded of that alternate ending to Big? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2016, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-scene-from/752165/12 "2016-04-14T16:59:45Z")
Men … a swampy river … _Deliverance_! ---
**Author:** ![SimonOnMars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SimonOnMars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SimonOnMars)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2016, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-scene-from/752165/13 "2016-04-14T17:13:57Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > Is anyone else reminded of that alternate ending to Big? I’m reading that thread now. Hilarious. I hope Wim Wenders answers me. This is crazy making. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2016, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-this-scene-from/752165/14 "2016-04-14T18:15:05Z")
> [@SimonOnMars](#): > > I’m reading that thread now. Hilarious. > > I hope Wim Wenders answers me. This is crazy making. It is one of my favorite threads of all time. Every time it gets resurrected, just seeing it in the new posts list gives me a chuckle. I hope you hear from Wenders.