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The Great Shot Gordo Award for Most Cinematic Shot
Heaven’s clouds and terminal; tunnel-to-light transition
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Approx. transcript time · 01:04:10Read transcript
- Buck Henry and Beatty walking through clouds to the heavenly airport is the initial shot choice.
- A later return selects the tunnel’s blackout into light and the living character’s reappearance as moving and always loved.
Most Rewatchable Scene
The opening tracking shot
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Approx. transcript time · 00:32:47Read transcript
- The 7:47 opening tracking shot is nominated and ultimately selected.
- The opening includes Buck Henry pitching The Graduate Part II.
- The opening’s rapid movie-pitch mashups are praised.
- Fred Ward discussing Touch of Evil while admitting gaps in his movie knowledge is praised.
- The large party where Sidney Pollack appears is nominated.
- The Burt Reynolds party exchange is praised.
- Griffin confronting David Kahane at the Rialto and the ensuing murder are nominated.
- The hotel-pool Habeas Corpus pitch is nominated.
- Griffin’s generic black-tie speech about movies as art is nominated.
- The one-year-later Habeas Corpus ending with Julia Roberts and Bruce Willis is nominated.
- The final in-car pitch of The Player and Griffin’s homecoming are nominated.
- The Pasadena interrogation with Lyle Lovett and Whoopi Goldberg is nominated.
- Whoopi Goldberg’s tampon exchange is highlighted.
- The lineup scene and Whoopi Goldberg’s pressure on the witness are praised.
Picking Nits
Crime logic, communication and the afterlife rules
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Approx. transcript time · 01:05:35Read transcript
- Carl’s street robbery for passwords and conspicuous office fraud are mocked; drug use is an inference explicitly never shown. The mob lawyer’s openness and Sam’s obliviousness compound the implausibility.
- Willie returning to Molly’s apartment after she saw the killing seems reckless; $80,000 is considered a poor share for the crimes.
- Molly should ask many questions about death, exclusivity and moving on; her lack of curiosity is challenged and partly defended as shock.
- Sam can shove Willie and move objects but cannot touch Molly; an anger-based training explanation is accepted.
- Carl’s hell sentence is questioned because he ordered a robbery rather than a killing; an objection points to greed rather than any benevolent motive. The debate asks about the risk of hell for Sam if he pushes Willie to his death, versus possible immunity while in purgatory, without resolving the rules.
- Heaven Can Wait is praised, with James Mason and Buck Henry recalled as authority figures; Defending Your Life supplies a legal-system comparison. Demotion is questioned, and purgatory in New York is contrasted with fewer opportunities for wrongdoing in the woods. The medium’s message that others are waiting is taken to mean his time is limited and a higher authority decides.
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