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Post by fiosnasiob on Apr 4, 2019 12:09:51 GMT
Inspired by Close's amazing mirror's scene in Dangerous Liaisons posted by Tyler, what are some of your favorites scenes involving an actor (or more) and a mirror. An obvious one :
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Post by pupdurcs on Apr 4, 2019 12:16:58 GMT
Edward Norton in 25th Hour in beyond incredible. May be the best mirror scene in film history to be honest. A lot of that is down to how good the monologue is, and Spike Lee's expert cross-cutting to show scenes reflecting Norton's diatribe.
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 4, 2019 12:22:05 GMT
A scene of an actor in front of a mirror portraying an actor in front of a mirror so very meta ...........he has some greatish performances in the 2010s (Manglehorn, Danny Collins) but for my money, his best work of the decade.................is this one (of the non-HBO stuff)
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 4, 2019 12:45:01 GMT
There's another mirror scene in the same film that I could have picked, but I prefer this one - in 1 minute he covers so much:
No dialog, charming/charmless, vain in a way/scared in a way, disciplined/lost.
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Post by fiosnasiob on Apr 4, 2019 13:57:20 GMT
Edward Norton in 25th Hour in beyond incredible. May be the best mirror scene in film history to be honest. A lot of that is down to how good the monologue is, and Spike Lee's expert cross-cutting to show scenes reflecting Norton's diatribe. Are you sure about that ? When you think cinema and mirror(S) it usually doesn't take long before you think about this iconic scene :
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 4, 2019 14:20:50 GMT
The first one I thought of though I can't find a clip is the ending of Deep Red where the presence of a "face" in the mirror among the paintings ties into so much that Argento is fascinated with (the mis-remembering thing in all his films, the danger implicit in Art, the past haunting the present).
That's real sophisticated stuff/ideas that uses the mirror motif brilliantly......
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Post by themoviesinner on Apr 4, 2019 15:25:30 GMT
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Post by ibbi on Apr 4, 2019 16:04:50 GMT
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Post by TerryMontana on Apr 4, 2019 16:26:14 GMT
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Post by TerryMontana on Apr 4, 2019 16:30:34 GMT
Also this scene from the Lobster:
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Apr 4, 2019 16:32:35 GMT
You all are so god damned wrong, it's unbelievable.
The best, by far, is Jamie Lee Curtis changing in Trading Places. I would link to it, but... ya know...
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Post by jakesully on Apr 4, 2019 16:55:16 GMT
Jake Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Apr 4, 2019 18:24:58 GMT
And the gold standard of mirror scenes:
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Post by fiosnasiob on Apr 4, 2019 18:31:00 GMT
Well, kind of... (really starts around 1 minute)
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Post by Longtallsally on Apr 4, 2019 18:42:05 GMT
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Post by cherry68 on Apr 4, 2019 18:54:47 GMT
Not exactly a mirror...
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Post by ibbi on Apr 4, 2019 19:40:35 GMT
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Post by TerryMontana on Apr 5, 2019 15:45:34 GMT
Not exactly a single scene but a short feature by Scorsese:
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Post by Archie on Apr 5, 2019 15:50:15 GMT
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Post by SeanJoyce on Apr 5, 2019 20:37:15 GMT
Mickey Rourke had 3 pretty great "mirror" scenes during his peak in the late 80s. Barfly (poem): Angel Heart ("I know who I am!"): Johnny Handsome (new face, ah the irony...unfortunately, no clip):
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Post by DeepArcher on Apr 5, 2019 21:50:00 GMT
Not yet mentioned: the ending of Boogie Nights.
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 5, 2019 22:01:31 GMT
Pacino cries out of one eye - this goes on for about a minute to get the full effect.
Side note: rather ingenious shot composition by Friedkin - the room is laid out in an orderly, precise manner, her photo in front as "herself" and then Karen Allen disrupts that order of the room by taking on the other persona.
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Post by pupdurcs on Apr 5, 2019 22:09:39 GMT
The legendary Norton scene in 25th Hour, since I forgot to actually post it.
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 5, 2019 22:37:26 GMT
At 2:20 of this astonishing dream sequence from Polanski's wonderful adaptation of Macbeth - a series of great mirror tricks - this is real tour de force stuff.
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Post by Viced on Apr 5, 2019 22:49:08 GMT
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