elevator scene
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Elevator to the Gallows
froglet1-1 — 18 years ago(January 30, 2008 08:31 AM)
Can anyone tell me if there is a crucial scene in this movie set actually in an elevator? I'm writing an essay on the iconogrpahy of elevators in movie sso am trawling through imdb! If there is one I'll go ahead and rent this movie.
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froglet1-1 — 18 years ago(February 23, 2008 12:17 PM)
Awesome, thanks you guys I will be getting onto it. Thanks for the suggestions too leforcat, between Speed and Die Hard I was getting a little panicky that my essay would end up being all about men with buzzcuts and terrorists. Hopefully this will give me something to quot ethat isn't Keanue Reeves going "wooahhh".
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jtdeclercq — 17 years ago(July 07, 2008 01:32 AM)
There's a Dutch film, a horror movie, called De Lift (The Elevator -
http://us.imdb.com/board/10087622/
)about an elevator going beserk and killing people. It was released in 1983, and actually it was quite a big hit, not only in Holland, if memory serves me well. You should use this for your piece on Elevators.
Also, may I remind you of a famous elevator scene in Charade (
http://us.imdb.com/board/10056923/
) in which actor Ned Glass meets his death classic! -
jtdeclercq — 17 years ago(July 07, 2008 01:38 AM)
Also, it just came to mind, there's a crucial elevator scene in Billy Wilder's The Apartment (
http://us.imdb.com/board/10053604/
), when Bud (Jack Lemmon) discovers the cracked handmirror used by Fran (Shirley MacLaine) and thereby discovers she has a fling with his boss, to whom he sublets his apartment. -
wilky37 — 17 years ago(July 26, 2008 01:00 AM)
There's an outstanding shot in Jean-Luc Godard's "Alphaville" (1965) where the stationary camera is placed at the back of an elevator looking toward the door. The elevator door opens, the character gets into the elevator and it closes with people chasing him. The elevator goes up several flights and it opens to reveal the elevator across the lobby opening up with the bad guys. They grab the protagonist, throw him back into the first elevator, and as the elevator goes down they beat him up/throw him around the elevator (in front of the camera so that he bounces out-of-view to the left, to the right, etc.)
Then when the elevator gets back to the first floor he spills onto the ground and they arrest him.