elevator scene


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.
Thanks

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There are elevators in Antonioni's "La Notte" and in "Beyond the Clouds", you can always start with that!

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Yeah, the lead character spends most of the movie trapped in an elevator.

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As JackBlack has said, of course, an elevator is in the film and it plays a vital role in the plot as well - I forgot to mention it.

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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".
Thanks again!

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There's a Dutch film, a horror movie, called De Lift (The Elevator - http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0087622/)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/title/tt0056923/) in which actor Ned Glass meets his death... classic!

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Also, it just came to mind, there's a crucial elevator scene in Billy Wilder's The Apartment (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0053604/), 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.

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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.

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It's 13 years later now, but in case anyone else is researching:

"Dark Star," by later writers of "Alien" Ronald Shusett and Dan O'Bannon is a futuristic movie with a long elevator scene involving an alien loose on a space ship.

"Silence of the Lambs" has an escape scene which involves use of and scenes in an elevator.

"Blade Runner" has several scenes in very quick-rising elevators of the future, and two slower ones at Deckard's home and Sebastian's. The latter is an actual antique, open elevator at the Bradbury Building in downtown LA.

"Three Days of the Condor" has a cat and mouse "slow chase" scene in an elevator.

The wonderful suspense film "Klute" has several scenes in an ancient freight elevator.

"Diva" also involves several tense scenes in and around a freight elevator.

"The Shining" has repeated visions of two blood-filled elevators.

"The Hot Rock" with Robert Redford has tense scenes in a huge freight elevator and a bank elevator.

I believe the Dutch film "De Lift" was made into an American film.

If this counts, "The Final Countdown" has several tense scenes involving an aircraft elevator on a carrier. So does "Top Gun."

An episode late during the first season of TV's version of "Fargo" involves some bloody action on an elevator.

If it's ever published, my novel "Pipeline" involves the protagonist's use of an elevator to try and get one-up on someone out to kill him. He also uses a multi-function elevator maintenance key for various purposes, including a weapon.

"The Matrix" had at least one action scene in an elevator.

If you just love elevators, YouTube has several channels dedicated to riding rare and exciting elevators, rides atop the cars, plus looks at the motors that run them.

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