spiderwort
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Post by spiderwort on Feb 9, 2019 23:12:35 GMT
Mirrors and reflected images in films.
I'll stick first with a reflected image that I've always thought was brilliant:
In Spielberg's first feature, Sugarland Express (1974), Goldie Hawn and William Atherton, on the run from the law, are holed up at night in a trailer next to a drive-in theatre where a violent cartoon plays on the movie screen. We see this not from their point of view, but reflected on the window of their trailer as they look through it to watch. They laugh and laugh while the violence of the cartoon characters plays over, then merges with, their faces until they appear to be the ones taking the beating. A foreshadowing of their own demise that’s entirely lost upon them. The purely cinematic symbolism is stunning to me.
Do you have other suggestions (with or without symbolism) for the use of mirrors or reflections that impress you?
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 9, 2019 23:18:20 GMT
Kane
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Post by mattgarth on Feb 9, 2019 23:20:09 GMT
PSYCHO -- Vera Miles recoils when she sees her reflection in Norman's room.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 9, 2019 23:21:10 GMT
The Lady From Shanghai
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 9, 2019 23:23:37 GMT
PSYCHO -- Vera Miles recoils when she sees her reflection in Norman's room. this the one ?
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 9, 2019 23:27:53 GMT
another from ^^^
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Post by mattgarth on Feb 9, 2019 23:28:10 GMT
KANE plus SHANGHAI -- Orson sure did love mirrors in his movies.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 9, 2019 23:31:18 GMT
Chaplin THE CIRCUS (1928)
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Post by bravomailer on Feb 9, 2019 23:32:24 GMT
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Post by mattgarth on Feb 9, 2019 23:32:38 GMT
ALL OF ME -- Steve Martin constantly seeing Lily Tomlin in his bathroom mirror.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 9, 2019 23:33:41 GMT
Limelight
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Post by bravomailer on Feb 9, 2019 23:35:16 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 9, 2019 23:35:31 GMT
ALL OF ME -- Steve Martin constantly seeing Lily Tomlin in his bathroom mirror.
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Post by bravomailer on Feb 9, 2019 23:37:31 GMT
Maybe the most famous, except perhaps for The Lady from Shanghai?
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 9, 2019 23:39:30 GMT
All About Eve
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Post by mikef6 on Feb 9, 2019 23:40:53 GMT
Dishonored / Josef von Sternberg (1931). I just finished watching it.
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Post by mattgarth on Feb 9, 2019 23:44:00 GMT
THE SUNSHINE BOYS -- Matthau and George Burns applying makeup before their TV appearance:
"Putz!"
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 9, 2019 23:44:27 GMT
Tootsie
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Post by mattgarth on Feb 9, 2019 23:49:03 GMT
LUST FOR LIFE -- Kirk gazing into the mirror just before slicing off his ear.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 9, 2019 23:52:16 GMT
Duck Soup - Groucho and again on I Love Lucy Harpo this time
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