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openI can't remember the name of the movie Film
There was an action movie I watched when I was younger and at one part, the two guys needed to reload and there was this wall column where they both went behind for cover and to reload at the same time. I think the movie also ended with someone getting stuck in a see through elevator and one of the guy walks away with a lady.I'd love to get back the name of it if anybody can help, thnx.
openClimbing the Ladder to the Top Film
Is there a trope describing the process of starting with a street level criminal Mooks and following leads all the way to the top of the organization?
In Payback, Porter wants his money back. He starts with the small fry and obtains the name of each successive link up the ladder to the top. The Big Bad who can give him his cash.
In Deadpool, Wade follows a similar process to find and take revenge on the man who tortured him into mutant anti-hero status.
Much of the action of the film involves the ways the main character goes about beating or tricking the information out of each successive rung in the ladder.
Definitely part of Man on Fire, but it doesn't necessarily have to be a Roaring Rampage of Revenge. I think it must be a staple of investigation plots where the target is either name or location unknown.
Edited by trooper8openFifties Sue Film
Is there a trope for the naming convention of teenage girls in works set during the 1950ies being called "Something-Sue", like, Peggy Sue, Betty Sue, Mary Sue, and so on?
openCharacter looks somewhere else and then it cuts to black Film
(Spoilers for the movies I mention here) The Usual Suspects, Memento, and Predestination all have something like this at the end, where it's a close-up shot of the main character and he says something in a voiceover around the same moment as he either moves his eyes or turns his head to look elsewhere. The frame with him looking in a different direction only lasts for a second or so, and then it cuts to black, ending the movie. May have a similar feeling as Smash Cut.
This probably sounds bizarrely specific but I think you can see what I mean if you've seen the movies or the clips of them recently. I think this technique is intended to give the audience a slight feeling of unrest and also possibly a bit of exhilaration, knowing that the character's story isn't over and it's not heading in a necessarily good way, but it will still be exciting. At least that's a common thread I see in these movies.
Edited by Troper48openGroin Attack Near Miss Film
Bob is on the floor, scooting backwards. A piece of debris or similar strikes the ground between his legs, exactly where his groin was a moment earlier. Bob gets an Oh, Crap! look on his face.
One obvious example is in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, where Harry is on the ground and the rogue bludger that's been attacking him keeps coming, hitting the ground to one side of him, then the other, then between his legs as he dodges.
There's also a Scorpion episode where a piece of exploding machinery buries itself in the ground between Toby's legs. Not sure of the episode.
openSilver Bullet Fail Film
I'm looking for examples in films (or TV) where all the good guys have faith in a special weapon (silver bullet, wooden stake, mystical amulet... etc) but during a confrontation, the weapon is revealed to be useless. I can think of examples where it doesn't work and then it does (Fright Night, Transformers: The Movie, Never Say Never Again) but not one where it simply fails. There must be a few.
openTime Stands Still but romantic? Film
You know when a couple is dancing/gazing longingly and they're so focused on each other time freezes and the people around them stop moving? I can't think of a way to look for the trope.
openTrope for returning Director/Composer/Developer? Film
Apparently, the tropes Role Reprisal or The Original Darrin are for returning actors only? Is there a trope for when the original director/Composer/Developer etc returns for a film/tv show/game that they worked on after several years?
Edited by LordAraghastopenWe're fine / We're not fine Film
A specific type of juxtaposition where it cuts between one character saying that things are fine, and another character saying that things are going disastrously wrong. For example, in Spider-Man: Homecoming:
Elevator operator: Our safety systems are online. Karen: The safety systems are completely offline. Elevator operator: We are all safe. Karen: The passengers are in imminent mortal danger.
openWork About Making A Work Film
The plot of a work (usually movie) is about the oftentimes Troubled Production of another work (movie, play, etc.), but isn't a documentary.
Saving Mr. Banks for Mary Poppins, Topsy-Turvy for The Mikado, Edmond (2019) for Cyrano De Bergerac, etc.
Edited by Chabal2openmagic computer device fixes everything Film
Character A is/arrives at a computer/device that's either broken or malfunctioning. A pulls something out of their pocket that plugs into said device, and it's magically fixed one way or another.
Edited by Vyruz64open"Kids bond by jumping something" Film
Is there a trope for a scene in a children's movie wherein the kids, being out on an adventure or something, have to go through a dangerous ordeal (either really dangerous or dangerous for them), such as crossing a cliff on a tightrope, jumping off the bridge onto a lake, climbing an electrified fence...
Usually, the movie makes big deal out of having each kid perform the feat, then start beckoning the others, "c'mon, you can do it, I could". The wimpiest kid is usually the last to do the jump, but, by the end of it, they've bonded as friends.
openActor doesn't realize the camera's on. Film
Is there a trope for when a scene starts and it's obvious the actor doesn't realize the camera's running as they will wait for several seconds before they start talking or doing whatever it is they are supposed to do. Typically only happens in really bad films for obvious reasons (I think Manos: The Hands of Fate has it a couple times.)
openProduct Shoehorning Film
To feature product placement, even though the setting of the film is somewhere you can't buy that product. Example: Power Rangers 2017: The Zeo Crystal is hidden below a Krispy Kreme, even though the town it was filmed in does not have one.
openExpert teaches the rookie Film
usually done in sports films/comedy sport films in which a old legend comes across a younger fresh talent in his same field and decides to make the person under their wing
openX for Y name Film
Hello, recently watching a lot of documentaries I realize a weird trend, especially on 00s documentaries of having a "Xing for Y" name (Bowling for Columbine, Waiting for Superman, Searching for Sugar Man), and also in older movies such as "F for Fake" or even "Dial M for Murder"?
Is there a trope related to this title? Could this be a trope?
openGlobal Newscast Montage Film
Is there a trope for when a person/event has recently become so important that the whole world is reporting it on their countries newscast? This is often shown as a montage of different newscasts from around the globe speaking their native language and suddenly you recognize them mentioning the person/event/thing in question. One example is from Airplane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBT7S29cf9c
I know there are others, but I can't seem to remember where I've seen it.
A figure of innocence, most often a child or a naive teenager is able to see or hear a paranormal entity. Whenever an adult (usually the protagonist) asks them what it is that they perceive, the child answers vaguely, and refers to "them" or "they". Even if the adult stresses the importance of the situation, the child never gets to the details and in some way "assumes" that the adult knows what they're talking about.
I've gotten quite close with tropes like "The creepy child", "Nightmare Fuel color book" and "Invisible to adults" and "I see dead people", but I feel like it differs in the sense that the child never recognizes the urgency the adult expresses, and is instead vague and aloof to the gravity of the situation. Also, the child is weirdly calm in the light of horrible things happening around him/her.
"Don't you see, Mommy? they're trying to help us!"