I like movies where that show the same scene(s) from different perspectives. These are really poor examples but the only ones I can think of at the moment because I caught them on tv recently: Drowning Mona and One Night at McCool's(?). I like this because it's funny to see a nice person come of as abusive and belligerent in another person's eyes.
What other good/funny movies are like this?
― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 12:08 (twenty-one years ago)
[Spent some time thinking about this.]
Do they have to be funny?
Of course, there is Rashomon, probably the most famous for multiple perspectives on the same event. But not funny.
A very interesting film that uses this is Hong Sang-soo's Virgin Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors -- this is probably the most clever use of the technique cause it's not entirely clear who's persepctive we are seeing.
You could always check out Steven Soderbergh's Schizopolis -- which is hysterical (though I seem to be part of a minority that believes that).
Tarantino does it in part of Jackie Brown.
And what about the film Go? Didn't that make use of it?
Hillary and Jackie, though again, very unfunny.
Oh yes -- how could I forget Nicholas Roeg's Bad Timing?
Gus van Sant does it in Elephant.
John Sayles' Eight Men Out.
Brian DePalma has used it in many of his films -- Snake Eyes, Femme Fatale etc.
― BabyBuddha (BabyBuddha), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)
Yeah, I love GO. One of my favorites.
Thanks for all the suggestions; I have many more items to add to my Netflix queue now.
― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)
And I want to add that the Audrey Tatou(?) movie
He love me, He loves me not fits into this category as well (though it's not funny).
― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)
Not exactly different perspectives, but "Run Lola Run" and "Pulp Fiction" come to mind for doing a similar thing.
― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 00:06 (twenty-one years ago)
You also should search that Simpsons episode from a few years ago that was a take-off on "Go" (or at least "Go"'s story structure). It's the the one about Homer getting his thumb sliced off. Pretty funny, as late-model Simpsons go.
― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)
ooh, that's the episode where lisa has a
run lola run moment, right? that one's great.
― joseph (joseph), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)