that part in action movies where the fight gets taken to apartments/tenement housing and all these families get surprised (like, 10 diff families all at once)

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where did it start? where will it go? what are the best examples of this? why does this always happen?

― dayo, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 02:15 (twelve years ago) link

The prototype for this might be the older movie gimmick in which the hero/bad guy is on the run and flees via different people's apartments ... seems like there is something along those lines in Out of the Past? But the multiple-apartment fight thing, I dunno.

― Brad C., Tuesday, 6 December 2011 02:44 (twelve years ago) link

I think this originated with Ferris Bueller!

Todd

― realness, just realness, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 03:32 (twelve years ago) link

Bourne scene in morocco is an awesome example of this iirc

― tehresa, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 05:47 (twelve years ago) link

Raising Arizona

― kingfish sandbox bonaparte, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 06:03 (twelve years ago) link

in the 80s this was always an opportunity for a gratuitous boob shot

― Cooper Chucklebutt, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 06:19 (twelve years ago) link

arnold would be all 'did i disturb u'

― Cooper Chucklebutt, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 06:20 (twelve years ago) link

this trope probably goes back to like 1902 or something, but I feel like Hitchcock was the first guy to master it?

Todd

― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 06:28 (twelve years ago) link

oh hey todd

― Cooper Chucklebutt, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 06:33 (twelve years ago) link

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