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openViolence Against Phones Film
Is there a name for the trope when a character either receives bad news over the phone or becomes so enraged by a phone call that they up taking their frustration out physically on the phone itself?
EX: "Goodfellas", when Jimmy gets call the that Tommy's been whacked, he smashes phone into receiver repeatedly, tips phone booth over so it falls onto its side, shattering.
EX: "Ferris Bueller", when Jeanie calls cops about Ed Rooney breaking into her house but police think it's a prank she hangs up, livid, squeezes phone into receiver and calls it a "DICK HEAD!"
Edited by PatG1987openEverything Went Better Than Expected Film
(Audience Reaction.) You see an announce for a film (mostly - other media are possible) that can only fail. Maybe the premise is preposterous. Maybe it won't survive a media change. (Say, comic superhero movies before the FX were awesome.) You watch it from Bile Fascination in hope that it's So Bad, It's Good. And then you are positively disappointed. Maybe it wins no oscars and is So Okay, It's Average, but still, you like it. (Tropers Subjective Example Choice: Cowboys & Aliens, Attack the Block, Doom.)
resolved Omnidisciplinary Cop Film
The cop who's involved with every aspect of the olice procedural - he's working a beat when he finds the drugs, then leads the investigation to pinpoint the distributors, drives across states to catch them, leads the SWAT raid on the distribution facility, drives the prison truck to jail and watches over the criminals when they're talking with their lawyers.
openThat’s odd Film
Is there a trope where for example it’s someone’s first day on the job and someone shows them around and they walk past the garbage heap and the new guy sees a horrible monster in the garbage only for the other guy to say “that’s odd...normally the garbage monster comes on thursdays.”
openUnique in the Original, commonplace in the EU Film
In The Empire Strikes Back, Luke uses a desperate, improvised maneuver to destroy one of the giant armored walkers in Hoth - he shoots an emergency grappling hook and circles the rope around its legs, causing it to tumble down.
Even though it was supposed to be a last resort in the movie, a bunch of Extended Universe works have the same thing happen, going as far as showing it to be a common technique, since it's such a memorable scene.
Is there a trope for a scenario like that? Something that was supposed to be an one-time thing in the original work, ends up showing up all the time in sequels, adaptations and expansions?
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_RopenNo Title Film
Is there a trope for when an aspect of a work is dropped in a modern adaptation either because it is considered annoying, or because the adaptation is modernizing the work?
Example: In the upcoming Scooby doo movie Scoob, Shaggy does not say "Zoinks" all the time and Scooby's speech does not constantly contain "R's" . This is presumably because the former is outdated slang, and because both speech patterns are considered annoying to some people.
openfinding movie Film
im looking for movie year 2006 and that movies kind of horror teenager he killed and he haunting her classmate and i remember the ending his body find in the hole of forest
openMultiple Kiss Scene Film
A scene in a work when multiple characters share kisses. I think of movies like Happy Madison, We're the Millers and Zombieland: Double Tap when I think of a scene like that. Is there a name for that trope?
openSpilling and splashing water while dying of thirst Film
Is there a trope for this?
A character is extremely thirsty and could die soon without water (e.g. after spending a long time in the desert). They chance upon some limited amount of water that could improve their chance of survival. Instead of being careful to actually drink all of the water, they handle it haphazardly, let it spill out of their mouth, and even splash it deliberately on their face. Perhaps the scene is done this way because it visually communicates the feeling of getting water better than if the character were to actually drink all of it.
Edited by core-theoryopenEverything Went Back to Normal / A Neat Little Package Film
I feel like there must be a Trope for this. I just finished watching The Addams Family from 1991 and instead of showing things getting better or being fixed, the last scene starts with “Some time later” where through exposition-heavy dialogue, characters explain “It sure is lucky that this happened!” And “Who’d have known this was what was the true cause of the mystery” etc
Anyways it’s not listed on the page so I’m kind of confused
openEpic music, mundane task Film
I'm looking for a comedy trope where a character performing some mundane task is made to feel like a heroic triumph by playing some epic music (typically classical) on the background. Usually the film also goes to slow-motion to emphasize the "epicness" of the scene. Parodies of Fire is a subtrope of this, but I'm looking for the supertrope.
resolved driver doesn't watch the road Film
This is super dangerous, but happens all the time in films. Most of the time this is just an acting convention, but sometimes it does matter.
What is the trope for this ? That doesn't seem to be Blind Driving, so I am thinking of Drives Like Crazy.
openContinuity Error Film
A few days ago, I saw Ratatoing ('cause I like bad movies) and one of the rats says they've "never had any chocolate before" in their restaurant, but earlier in this "movie," chocolate was used as an indegrient for ice cream.
Have we a Trope for such continuity errors?
openSad Montage Scene Film
What's the name for the sequence in a film or show when the main character (or characters) mope over failure or an unfortunate plot point (usually accompanied by a sad song)?
openWhen a mystical creature transforms into the perfect woman Film
I can think of two examples of this: Stardust and The Last Unicorn. In Stardust, Yvaine is a star that falls to Earth and is takes the form of a beautiful woman that the hero falls in love with. In The Last Unicorn, the eponymous unicorn is transformed into a beautiful woman to hide her from the Red Bull, and the hero subsequently falls in love with her. I assume this is some variant of Manic Pixie Dream Girl, where the hero's ideal woman isn't really real at all, but it doesn't seem to quite fit that same trope.
openPredator dominance display Film
A pair (or more) of predators show up to threaten the protagonists. But before they attack, one of the predators turns to growl / roar / snap etc at its companions, in some sort of dominance display.
Example: in Jurassic Park, when the raptors enter the kitchen: https://youtu.be/TnWNyKqI3Bc?t=86
Since JP came out, this seems to be extremely common, particularly in anything featuring dinosaurs or other prehistoric creatures.
I remember that it was a kids show that was fast paced and the animation was stop motion also the animation and design was like jagged metal and electrical pieces there are 2 segments of the show that I remember. The fort segment was of a cartoon news lady and the point of the segment was too listen to what she was saying while the screen showed little pictures of planes or trains or cars or blimps and then you had to take a test , the other segment was of a fat man In a chair facing the screen and eating garbage while a British woman's voice spoke to him this is all I can remember please help me remember what this show was. It was all on television