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Live Poll: Ordinary Objects You'll Never See in the Same Way Again
List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls021368151/
Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/pLDkKtilAkk/
What ordinary object will you never see in quite the same way as you did before seeing a particular film or scene in a film?
*Suggestions, as always, are very welcome. Thank you!*
Feedback requested: If I find other examples like 'It's a Wonderful Life,' do movies like that fit? (If I can't find similar examples, I'm assuming that it would seem strange among scary, odd, or disturbing scenes.)
Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/pLDkKtilAkk/
What ordinary object will you never see in quite the same way as you did before seeing a particular film or scene in a film?
*Suggestions, as always, are very welcome. Thank you!*
Feedback requested: If I find other examples like 'It's a Wonderful Life,' do movies like that fit? (If I can't find similar examples, I'm assuming that it would seem strange among scary, odd, or disturbing scenes.)
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For your consideration:
A bone after the scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/mediaviewer/rm2145853952
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/mediaviewer/rm2228031232
Umbrellas after the scene in Singin' in the Rain (1952)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045152/mediaviewer/rm2491857664
Ceilings after the scene in Royal Wedding (1951)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043983/mediaviewer/rm3831541760
Coconuts after the scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071853/mediaviewer/rm3812904192
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dgranger
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Scissors or shears from “Deal M for Murder”.
But the IMDb just doesn’t have that picture. Or at least a good one of the guy with the scissors sticking out of his back. I think you would remember this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LBoL2vM...
Also add a telephone. But there are other movies had that better - like “Sorry, Wrong Number” https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040823/...
Or a cellphone or phone booth: Phone Booth
I second all of Dan’s picks.
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https://www.imdb.com/list/ls063977152/?ref_=ls_mv_sm
Also FYC:
A balloon in M (1931)
A door knob in Home Alone (1990)
An ice pick in Basic Instinct (1992) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103772/mediaviewer/rm484720896
Would a glass of milk count? (either in Suspicion, A Clockwork Orange or Inglourious Basterds)
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FYC:
A spinning top - Inception
A white hockey mask - Friday the 13th
A Wilson brand volleyball - Cast Away
A dentist's drill - Marathon Man
A chess board - The Seventh Seal
Reese's Pieces - ET
An '80s era alarm clock - Groundhog Day
A tennis racket - The Apartment
A discarded plastic bag - American Beauty
A drill - Lethal Weapon 2
A banjo - Deliverance
A clear cup of water - Jurassic Park
A red stapler - Office Space
Some small, broken sticks - The Blair Witch Project
A chainsaw - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
A croquet ball - Heathers
A '70s-era police car - The Blues Brothers
Wayfarer sunglasses - Risky Business
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Grapefruit after the scene in The Public Enemy (1931).
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022286/mediaviewer/rm2058072576
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but No photos ...
Charley Varrick (1973)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069865/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069865/reference
Walter Matthau ... Charley Varrick
Woodrow Parfrey ... Harold Young
John Vernon ... Maynard Boyle
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069865/quotes/qt0161913
Harold Young: I can't start my life over again now.
Maynard Boyle: You don't have much choice, Harold.
They're gonna try to make you tell where the money is.
You know what kind of people they are.
They're gonna strip you naked and go to work on you
with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch.
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Pulp Fiction (1994)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/reference
Bruce Willis ... Butch Coolidge
Ving Rhames ... Marsellus Wallace
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/quotes/qt0447123
Butch: What now?
Marsellus: What now? Let me tell you what now.
I'ma call a coupla hard, pipe-hittin' niggers,
who'll go to work on the homes here
with a pair of pliers and a blow torch.
You hear me talkin', hillbilly boy?
I ain't through with you by a damn sight.
I'ma get medieval on your ass.
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RED (2010)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1245526/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1245526/reference
Bruce Willis ... Frank Moses
John Malkovich ... Marvin Boggs
Richard Dreyfuss ... Alexander Dunning
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1245526/quotes/qt2115562
[preparing to torture Dunning]
Marvin Boggs: You want nuts? Nipples?
[holds up pliers, vise-grips]
Marvin Boggs: Potty trainer?
[and an auger spike]
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1245526/quotes/qt1637831
Frank Moses: [Brings out a gas torch] Where'd you get this?
Marvin Boggs: Home Depot.
Frank Moses: How much?
Marvin Boggs: [shrugs] Ten bucks.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1245526/mediaviewer/rm2660990976
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Music box https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1457767/mediaviewer/rm1090432000
Both from Conjuring
Also a doll from Child's Play
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094862/mediaviewer/rm1308378624
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094862/mediaviewer/rm3875292672
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094862/mediaviewer/rm231965952
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The ice pick from Basic Instinct [1992], You will never see the ice pick again the same way when you finish watching the movie.
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As for snow globes, the ones in “The Santa Clause” and “Krumpas” comes into mind before the one in “Citizen Kane”. But in those movies, those are magical and shouldn’t count because they are not ordinary. But then again, you didn’t say anything about an object being magical in your description and you did use two poccessed dolls ( Chucky from “Child’s Play” and Annebelle from “The Conjuring”*). So therefore, magical or evilly processed objects counts.
In concideration for the balloon in “M”, how about the red balloon in the short Oscar winning film, “The Red Balloon” (1956)? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048980/...
* I got something that makes that even scarier. The real Annebelle doll is not an antique china or wooden doll pictured in the movie. It is a large antique Raggedy Anne doll. Knowledge of that little tidbit almost spoils Raggedy Anne for me.
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Or the Statue of Liberty after seeing “Saboteur”.
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Forrest Gump (1994)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109830/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109830/reference
Tom Hanks ... Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump:
My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get."
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109830/mediaviewer/rm815742720
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Blazing Saddles (1974)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071230/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071230/reference
Cleavon Little ... Bart
Alex Karras ... Mongo
Candygram for Mongo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH6_kasOHac (Grab a frame from here?)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitman's
Whitman's is one of the largest and oldest brands of boxed chocolates in the United States.
Whitman's confections have been produced since 1842,
originally by Stephen Whitman, in Philadelphia
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For a TV version?
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FYI:
Title of the film not linked:
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Butterflies since 'The Silence of the Lambs'
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Banjos since 'Deliverance'
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Dolls since 'Child's Play' (and a few other films)
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A dental pick after the scene in 'Marathon Man'
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Titles: Citizen Kane
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