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Driving Scene - Spoliers

posted 14 years ago by CJ-Diggs
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When Kirks driving drunk at the end, pretty amazing scene actually. Despite its hamminess I was enthralled.

Also, when he first stumbled out of the house into the drive I was thinking 'man, he's really going to hurt himself.' Great drunk acting there with all that out of control momentum. I could feel a few of my own past experiences in that scene.. the stumbling, not the driving.

[–] OhmsLaw 10 years ago

I saw that driving scene this morning and it reminded me of a great scene in "The Bad and the Beautiful" with Lana Turner. In that one she is screaming as she drives and the camera was twirling around her IN the car, which made it unusual looking. In this one a camera is going around the car while Cyd screams. I see now what I suspected, that Vincent Minnelli also directed this movie, which was nowhere as good as the earlier one, and he was trying to recreate that scene.

[–] mdonln 8 years ago

OhmsLaw says > I saw that driving scene this morning and it reminded me of a great scene in "The Bad and the Beautiful" with Lana Turner.

I haven't seen the Bad and the Beautiful yet so I didn't notice any tie-in to the driving scene. However, I have seen enough clips of that movie to know that was the one they were watching in the screening room. It would make sense that the ties would continue through to the end.

During the driving scene I kept thinking it was kind of over the top. I'm not saying they could not have survived that wild driving but in a convertible and on a public road with twists and turns and plenty of walls? I would expect someone would end up thrown or injured. Heck, neither was wearing a seatbelt which would have helped keep them in the car.

I let it go and had to accept the scene because I got the point that was being made but I didn't like the fact the character was so unstable and mentally soft that he'd end up in that situation - again and over the same woman. In all the years that had passed he hadn't seemed to learn much from his prior experience yet after the 'drive' he's a new person who has it all figured out and is hopeful for the future that awaits him.

Woman, man! That's the way it should be Tarzan. [Tarzan and his mate]

[–] singjohn 8 years ago

I was reminded of Elizabeth Taylor's big car crackup in Butterfield 8. And also Diana Ross' histrionics in the car scene in Mahogany.

[–] liscarkat (16483) 4 years ago

Yes, great special effects in the drunk driving scene. Very tense and scary.