Throwing a Bone: 2001
There are some powerful scenes that precede the bone throw in Kubrik’s masterpiece, 2001. A man-ape learns to use a bone casually. The man-ape uses other bones to clobber things—this is intercut with images of huge animals falling--and suggests the man ape realizes a bone can be a hunting tool. During an intertribal intimidation fest, a bone is used to intimidate and then to kill a man-ape from an enemy tribe. The users of bone win the battle.
As the winning tribe revel in their victory, a man ape, who is wild with exuberance, hurls the bone into the air. It flies high, and as it descends, via a match cut, the bone morphs into a cylindrical space ship.
The sequence triggers so much awe, it packs an emotional wallop. …show more content…
{still of a man ape throwing a bone into the air, one still of the bone flying high, one still of the bone descending, one still of the space ship}
The Fake Orgasm When Harry Met Sally
In a restaurant, Harry (Billy Crystal) and Sally (Meg Ryan) discuss sex and whether a woman can fake an orgasm. In a display of moans, sighs, exclamations, cries, and gesticulations, Sally shows she can fake an orgasm very convincingly.
Then an older woman (Estelle Reiner) tells a waitress, “I’ll have what she’s having.”
The scene addresses one of the central ideas in the movie, can a man and a woman be close friends without being lovers?
Director Rob Reiner and has crew have created one of the classic comic moments in cinema. A reason it resonates so well is that it follows the formula of a joke. There is a setup, and a punchline. But it is much more than a very good joke. In a classic joke, the setup isn’t funny; in this scene, the setup is hilarious. The punchline, the deadpan comment by the older woman, knocks the sequence into the arena of comic immortality.
{a few stills of Sally’s fake orgasm, one still of the older
There are some powerful scenes that precede the bone throw in Kubrik’s masterpiece, 2001. A man-ape learns to use a bone casually. The man-ape uses other bones to clobber things—this is intercut with images of huge animals falling--and suggests the man ape realizes a bone can be a hunting tool. During an intertribal intimidation fest, a bone is used to intimidate and then to kill a man-ape from an enemy tribe. The users of bone win the battle.
As the winning tribe revel in their victory, a man ape, who is wild with exuberance, hurls the bone into the air. It flies high, and as it descends, via a match cut, the bone morphs into a cylindrical space ship.
The sequence triggers so much awe, it packs an emotional wallop. …show more content…
{still of a man ape throwing a bone into the air, one still of the bone flying high, one still of the bone descending, one still of the space ship}
The Fake Orgasm When Harry Met Sally
In a restaurant, Harry (Billy Crystal) and Sally (Meg Ryan) discuss sex and whether a woman can fake an orgasm. In a display of moans, sighs, exclamations, cries, and gesticulations, Sally shows she can fake an orgasm very convincingly.
Then an older woman (Estelle Reiner) tells a waitress, “I’ll have what she’s having.”
The scene addresses one of the central ideas in the movie, can a man and a woman be close friends without being lovers?
Director Rob Reiner and has crew have created one of the classic comic moments in cinema. A reason it resonates so well is that it follows the formula of a joke. There is a setup, and a punchline. But it is much more than a very good joke. In a classic joke, the setup isn’t funny; in this scene, the setup is hilarious. The punchline, the deadpan comment by the older woman, knocks the sequence into the arena of comic immortality.
{a few stills of Sally’s fake orgasm, one still of the older