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alt title(s): The Khan A Camera Trick where the camera is placed directly over the actor, pointing down, while the actor looks up into the camera and screams. The camera pulls away, while SPIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNING!
(...maybe without the spinning.)
See also Big No, The Scream, Say My Name.
Examples:
Anime and Manga
Film
- For some reason, people think that Kirk sreaming "KHAAAAAAN!" in Star Trek II was like this. It wasn't (It's a close-up of Kirk's face if you're wondering, cutting to a long shot of the moon he's on/in), but parodies of it do this.
- John Belushi's character screaming after the beer bar is taken away in Animal House.
- Iconic movie example: In the film adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire, just after realizing the error of his ways, Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando) screams out in the rain. The "STELLA! STELL-LLAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!" is done with this camera angle and has become one of the most famous one-word lines in movie history.
- Pirates Of The Caribbean does this in the second movie, Dead Man's Chest: "Damn you, Jack... SSSPARRROOOWWWWW!!!!" complete with the pullaway camera angle from above (and Davy Jones spraying seawater).
- Performed by Cindy (Anna Faris' character) at the end of every one of the Scary Movie series, although usually punctuated by her being run over.
- Bartleby does this near the end of Dogma while laughing maniacally.
- In Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet, the line "I am... FORTUNE'S FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!" gets this treatment.
- "WILLIAAAAAMMM!" William Thatcher also does this, screaming his own name, at the end of A Knight's Tale.
- Valentine: NOOOOOOOOOO! I DON'T WANT TO BE A WAITER!
- Parodied in the movie Charlies Angels with Matt Leblanc howling "DAMN YOU, SALAZAAAR!" at the soaring camera while his girlfriend lies dead in his arms. And then we find out they're shooting a movie within the movie.
- Ferris Buellers Day Off combines it with Distant Reaction Shot.
- The My Favorite Martian movie does a variant of this, as it is executed during Elliot Coleye's Evil Laugh at the height of his One Winged Angel act (initiated by one of the Martians' "nerplex").
- This was done three times in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
Live Action TV
- Seinfeld parodied this three times. The first time was George yelling "KHAAAAAAN!" after realizing his life must be dedicated to the Susan Ross foundation. The second time was Elaine yelling "SUUUUUUUUUUZE!" after realizing her life must be dedicated to the Susie foundation, a fake character she initially made up to avoid troubles and later "killed" her to avoid exposure. The third time was George screaming "TWIIIIIIIIIX!!" after people ate up his candy lineup, which he set up to catch his candy's thief in a car dealership.
- Jon Stewart does this a lot on The Daily Show, and was especially gratified when the scientist found to be supplying rogue regimes with nuclear technology was actually named A.Q. Khan
 . They once even subverted/failed to do the shot.
- Duncan does this once in the Highlander series, when he screams Darius's name after finding his dead body.
- Like Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report also has engaged in this trope occasionally. ("MANILOWWWWWW!!!")
- Also "RAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIINNNNN!!!"
- "BENNEEEEEEEETT!!!"
- "RICKLLLLLLLLLES!!!"
- "Vigoda?"
- Along those same lines, who can forget Conan O'Brien's tortured scream... "BOOOLLTEEEENN!"
- Wade in the pilot episode of Sliders: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
- "I GAVE MY WHOLE LIFE TO PORN! AND HE DOES IT IN ONE DAY! ONE!! DAY!!!"
- In the TV movie finale of Prison Break, T-Bag does this. "SCOOFIEEELD! SCOOOOOOOOOFIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELD!"
- Parodied in an episode of Whose Line Is It Anyway? During a game in which the comedians had to portray certain characters while being in a newscast, Ryan was assigned a character of a self-centered actor about to give his "Oscar-worthy performance". Ryan finished off his bit with his character bellowing his last line as he looked up towards an overhead camera—while he spun instead of the camera. The audience burst out into applause at the end.
Video Games
- Used by the Joker in Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe's DC story mode after Captain Marvel tells Superman and the four DC villains the name of the Original Generation Big Bad. Though the camera is above him, it cuts thrice, each one more distanced from him (and echoing his voice) rather than pulling away smoothly. Then Deathstroke tells him to shut up.
- The first major turning point in Star Ocean 3 ends with Fayt screaming "WHAT THE HELL AM I!?!?!"
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Western Animation
- In the season 3 finale of Jackie Chan Adventures, the last scene show the demon Shendu, petrified again, yelling "CHAAAAAAAANNNN!!!!!" as the "camera" pans out.
- Leela does one of these in the Futurama episode "Love's Labors Lost in Space" after waking up from a night of pity sex with Fake Ultimate Hero Zapp Brannigan, who is himself a parody of William Shatner.
- Also Nibbler in the Futurama film Bender's Big Score: "Doooomed!"
- "STAMOS!"
- Parodied in The Simpsons with Rainier Wolfcastle's "MEN-DO-ZAAAA!"
- "Stroker And Hoop" parodied this with the character Stroker screaming "KHAAAAAN-ja" after being swindled and taken to a mental asylum by a woman, pretending to be an alien, (though later revealed to be a real alien) named Khan'Ja.
- Demona from Gargoyles mixes this with a Big No when she discovers her planning got her own clan brutally killed, complete with her falling to her knees and raising her hands to the sky.
Music
- The whole process is described in Razorblade Sigh by Gamma Ray.
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