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99 Problems In Film by Eclectic Method: A Partial List Of The Films
A clip you’ve probably seen already, and if not, you should. In case it hasn’t been done yet, what follows is a partial list of the movies used, breaking the video down clip by clip. There are a lot of popular movies I haven’t seen, so there are some easy ids I wasn’t able to make. I almost never watch videos, so I couldn’t id the Jay-Z clips used in here either: if it isn’t “Can I Get A” or “Girls, Girls, Girls”, I’m not gonna know the visual. There may be some mis-ids, but not many.
David Thomson tossed some roses at a Lindsay Lohan clip, and I was like, yeah, maybe, no, not really my thing. I’m not a man of medals, and not a medal giving man, but if I was either, I’d toss Thomson’s plaudit to this.
The clip is short, but very dense, so what follows is a very, very long post.
The Aristocrats
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Knocked Up
The Godfather
Fight Club
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Shawshank Redemption
Mars Attacks
Forrest Gump
Casino
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Ghostbusters
Apollo 13
Pulp Fiction
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As Good As It Gets
Kung Fu Panda
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Aladdin
The Godfather
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Batman Returns
All About Eve
Pulp Fiction
Pulp Fiction
The Matrix
The Departed
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Back to the Future
Catch Me If You Can
Forrest Gump
Ace Ventura – When Nature Calls
Blade Runner
Batman Begins
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Catch Me If You Can
High Fidelity
Dr Strangelove
As Good As It Gets
Memento
The Godfather
American Beauty
Casino
The Matrix
Shawshank Redemption
All About Eve
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Memento
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Forrest Gump
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High Fidelity
Jingle All The Way
Spaceballs
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Airplane
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Pulp Fiction
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Saturday Night Fever
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Fight Club
Ghostbusters
Saving Private Ryan
Avatar
Black Snake Moan
The Matrix
American Beauty
Pulp Fiction
Die Hard
Pulp Fiction
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Blues Brothers
Juno
A Scanner Darkly
The Departed
Forrest Gump
Chicago
Pulp Fiction
Pulp Fiction
2001: A Space Odyssey
Shawshank Redemption
American Gangster
Snatch
The Godfather
Blade Runner
A View To A Kill
Pulp Fiction
The Departed
American History X
Fight Club
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E.T. The Extraterrestrial
Pulp Fiction
Pulp Fiction
Mars Attacks
Mars Attacks
Forrest Gump
Goldfinger
Fight Club
American Beauty
Capote
Fight Club
Pulp Fiction
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Fight Club
The Godfather
Fight Club
Knocked Up
American History X
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Forrest Gump
Be Kind Rewind
Pulp Fiction
Apollo 13
Pulp Fiction
Batman Begins
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Pulp Fiction
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Pulp Fiction
American History X
Casablanca
25th Hour
Saving Private Ryan
Rocky
Pulp Fiction
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Pulp Fiction
The Godfather
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Forrest Gump
Pulp Fiction
The Departed
Barry Lyndon
Pulp Fiction
Back to the Future Part II
Black Snake Moan
Pulp Fiction
Shawshank Redemption
Harold and Kumar: Escape From Guanatamo Bay
Pulp Fiction
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Analyze This
Pulp Fiction
Shawshank Redemption
The Godfather
Barry Lyndon
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The Professional
The Godfather
Fight Club
Adaptation
The Godfather
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Catch Me if You Can
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Shawshank Redemption
Forrest Gump
The Departed
Batman Returns
Memento
Casino
As Good As It Gets
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2001: A Space Odyssey
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Pulp Fiction
Goodfellas
Dazed and Confused
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Batman Begins
The Godfather
Pulp Fiction
Saving Private Ryan
The Matrix
American Beauty
Pulp Fiction
American Gangster
Pulp Fiction
American History X
Black Snake Moan
Wayne’s World
Pulp Fiction
Memento
Blues Brothers
Saving Private Ryan
The Departed
Catch Me If You Can
Shawshank Redemption
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As Good As It Gets
Shawshank Redemption
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Forrest Gump
Robocop
Pulp Fiction
Saturday Night Fever
Pulp Fiction
Definitely, Maybe
Shawshank Redemption
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“Way You Make Me Feel” – Michael Jackson
Pulp Fiction
Mars Attacks
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What I Think About When I Think About Salem
You’re probably familiar with the band, a group I have much affection for. Some of their work I find very interesting, some I do not.
What I always think of when I hear their music; the first paragraphs from an old essay, “The Devil in Long Island”, by Ron Rosenbaum, a writer I sometimes disagree with, but always read. I am unaware if any band members are from the much low land mass.
“He wondered every once in a while what life would be like without a second story and how it was people managed to get along in ranch-style or split-level houses without running amok once a year or so.” Thomas Pynchon, from “Low-lands”
It would be foolish to believe that a single story could sum up the entire range of bizarre and sensational behavior that is Long Island Babylon. Particularly a story that doesn’t even mention Amy or Sol, Joey or “Joel the Ripper,” little Katie Beers or Howard Stern, much less the “Homeroom Hit Man,” the “Angel of Death” nurse, the Islip Garbage Barge or Geraldo Rivera.
Nonetheless, I feel that the story of the unprintable Satanist Ritual Killing Ground Photo comes close.
Some years ago in Northport — not far from the birthplace of Pynchon, who is, far more than the frequently invoked F. Scott Fitzgerald, the true literary avatar of the Long Island soul — two allegedly angel-dusting, devil-worshiping teen-agers were branded as “ritual cult murderers” of another teen-ager in the Aztakea woods.
It was one of the first such episodes in what would become an overhyped national trendlet, and perhaps the first signal that something sinister was stirring out there behind the split-level shutters of Long Island’s suburbs. But this particular story about the unprintable photo, one I heard from a former Newsday editor who swears it’s true, isn’t about the killing itself; rather about something that happened the night after the death became public.
It seems the paper had dispatched a photographer to get a nighttime shot of the supposedly spooky, satanist ritual killing ground out there in the woods, something that would capture the diabolical horror of it all. But when certain pictures came out of the darkroom, they just weren’t . . . suitable. Unusable. Not because they were too terrifying (at least not terrifying in a Luciferian way). But because many photographs of the alleged cult coven’s killing circle prominently featured a large boulder, across the face of which was scrawled the following somewhat-less-than-terrifying cult slogan:
SATIN LIVES!
“Memories” by Whitney Houston and Material
An early song by a great singer of unfulfilled promise.
Death Everywhere
From Faster: The Acceleration Of Just About Everything by James Gleick:
With all the arts making their small sacrifices to hurriedness, music lovers can hardly expect to be
immune. There is a special kind of pain, though. Music is the art form most clearly about time. The
passing seconds are its canvas and its palette. There are extremes of slowness in music that stand out
like peaks of the Himalayas—the Heiliger Dankgesang movement of Beethoven’s Opus 132 string
quartet, or the final heart-stopping adagio of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony (Leonard Bernstein,
conducting, took six minutes to crawl through the score’s last page). These seemingly endless passages
evoke death by information deprivation: when rich flurries of black-beamed chords give way to the
simplest sustained single tones is precisely when Lewis Thomas, listening, found himself thinking of
“death everywhere, the dying of everything, the end of humanity.”
