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resolved So short, the camera misses him (SOLVED) Film
Is there a trope for when a character is depicted as comically short, so the camera pans to him, he's nowhere to be found, then the camera pans down? Can be inverted, where the camera pans up to see his face.
A variation is when all characters are standing side by side, but we can only see the short character's hat.
Edited by Mac_Rresolved Strip of light over character's eyes. Name of the technique? Film
Hey everyone, out of curiosity, what's the name of the effect when there is a strip of light over a character's eyes? For example, in the 1991 Addams's Family film and its sequel 'Values', there are many scenes where Morticia Addams eyes are accentuated (to mimic old vampire movies where this technique was used.
It was also used in the Harry Potter movie on Lucius's Malfoy, 007 with Daniel Craig and so on.
resolved 'Don't shoot me, I'm the real one!' Film
Not sure if this trope is listed already or not, if it is I can't find it.
Basically the scene where there's two versions of the same person (one is an evil clone, or an android, etc...), one of the heroes has a gun and needs to shoot one of the two, but can't figure out which is which.
It usually leads to the two characters having to prove themselves to the one holding the gun, saying something like 'You know it's me, we did that thing together years ago, remember?' Or in comedic scenarios, the duplicate says something overly sappy and sentimental which the hero thinks 'they'd never say that' and shoots them dead for it.
resolved "Destroy the Mothership" Film
What's the name for the trope where plucky underdogs win against insurmountable odds by destroying some kind of technology that inexplicably has a single point of failure that then destroys/renders inactive all of the enemy forces?
Obvious examples -
- Independence Day
- Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
- The Avengers
resolved They wasted a perfectly good material Film
Is there any specific YMMV (or not) trope for a situation where great material for a TV series or a mini-series is "wasted" on a feature film, and as a result, it ends up cutting corners, under-developing characters, rushing plot bits etc.? Or when an adaptation of a book series ends up with a single feature movie, doing Compressed Adaptation, much to the detriment of the material and the final product?
resolved Not Sure How To Do Drugs Film
In Film.Cocaine Bear, there is a scene where two children find a package of cocaine and attempt to do it by eating it. They spit it out immediately and they do not get high. What’s the trope for this?
Edited by BigBadShadow25resolved fingerprint framing trope? Film
ok so you know like when there's like a cop or something and the person who is thought to be innocent used the thing that the cops want so he touches it then goes "oh nooo my prints are all over it now"
i can't think of an example right now sorry but it goes down pretty much exac the same way tysm bros
resolved Chuck E. Cheese’s Five Nights campaign Film
So Chuck E. Cheese’s is doing a “Five Nights of Fun” campaign with an ad designed to resemble the poster for the Five Nights at Freddy's (2023) movie poster and a leaked document telling employees not to acknowledge the chain is just taking advantage of the new movie. I know there’s a trivia trope for this, but I don’t know what it is…
resolved Early Movie Boyfriend Scare Film
Often horror movies will try to open with a scare to keep the audience invested and sometimes those scares end up just being pranks done by a character to prank another character (and also the audience). I've noticed this happens pretty often with jerk boyfriend characters who try to scare their girlfriend with a scary mask or something similar. Bonus points if one of the two ends up getting killed by the movies real threat. Is there a name for this trope?
resolved Revealing deeply hidden thoughts or insecurities Film
Alice and Bob have a serious fight. Tensions are high, they are both agitated and as a result Bob says something he would normally just hide or keep to himself - but not an insult to Alice, but revealing is own inadequacy or expressing guilt over something. Both sides of argument instantly realise that this reveal would never happen in other circumstances.
Do we have any trope for this, or does it fall into Freudian Slip?
resolved Cross-generation crush Film
Do we have anything for the usually comedic situation where a kid has a crush on some adult, obviously one-sided.
resolved An Affair Before the End of the World Film
Let's say a man decided to cheat on his fiancé with a random woman after hearing a nuclear war was very likely to happen. What trope would that fall under?
resolved Tortureland Montage Film
Is there a trope for a scene where a character goes to a place and finds everyone is being tortured and/or enslaved? Like the robots in the Jawa sandcrawler from Star Wars: A New Hope?
resolved Bow = Gun Film
Is there a trope about bow and arrow users behaving like gun users? Either as a source of comedy, or because the writer Did Not Do The Research and assumes the two weapons are similar enough they can cross out gun and replace it with bow if he's setting the story far enough into the past.
resolved No Title Film
What do you call the trope when a character dies just as they finally achieved something in their lives and have grown as a person. Best exemplified by the Nostalgia Critic's comment on a lot of Hilary Swank films in his review of the The Next Karate Kid:
- Yay, I'm finally a complete person! (explodes)
resolved Conflict over child's future in family business Film
Is there are troupe in this index about the conflict between parent (or parent-like figure) and child about the child's future occupation? Dad wants Son to stay at home and work in the Family Business, while Son wants to "Make it on his own." Some examples that come to mind include October Sky (Dad wants son to be a coal miner like him — son wants to become a rocket scientist), Annapolis, kind of (Dad wants son to work with him as a ship builder, Son wants to join the navy), Star Wars, A New Hope (Uncle Owen wants Luke to continue working on the farm, Luke wants to go to the Imperial Academy).
resolved There's so much evidence against me, I must be innocent! Film
A crime's been committed and all the evidence points to one suspect. So much evidence, in fact, that it seems like the suspect's being framed - he'll say stuff like "If I was going to kill him, don't you think I'd be smart enough to take off my personalized cufflinks before doing so?"
Of course, that raises another hypothesis - he committed the crime and made it obvious it was him just so he could claim he was framed - especially if he made a big deal of making the "evidence" freely accessible.
A sort of discretion shot to imply sexual activity.
A character's hand, and maybe their bare forearm but no more, is shown on top of a sheet on the bed the character is lying on. The hand is palm down with the fingers spread and the character is implied to be lying supine.
As we watch, the hand grabs the sheet in its fingers and squeezes it tight. Then cut away to another scene entirely.
This doesn't seem to be listed at Hand Tropes.
Edited by marnanel