Watch These Supercuts of Weird, Clichéd, and Delightful Movie Moments
If you’ve ever gotten déjà vu while watching a movie and felt like you’ve seen a certain scene before, you weren’t being crazy — you were probably right.
For all the advances that have been made in motion picture technology, there are certain go-to conventions on which filmmakers always rely. Over the last year, a film editor and Vimeo user who goes by the name Roman Holiday has been collecting some of the most prominent and oft-used shots and turning them into a series of very cool supercuts on everything from table flips to men’s butts. (H/t to Subtraction.com)
The one you see above catalogs years of shots from the inside of refrigerators, featuring generations of stars rummaging around for a snack (with certain labels positioned for prime product placement payola). This particular cut goes as far back as 1984′s Ghostbusters, and includes films such as Mrs. Doubtfire, Fight Club, and even Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
Roman Holiday also puts together “Up Close” supercuts of the close-ups in various films, creating a part-mesmerizing, part-disconcerting log of all the zoomed images that filmmakers so often use to convey important information. Above is the “Up Close” montage from Die Hard with fraught images like a screwdriver, bare feet, and Twinkies. The clip gets increasingly dark, tense, and scary… unlike the film franchise’s subsequent sequels.