The Lusty Gaze

Adaptation (2002)
dir. Spike Jonze

Louie "Come On, God" (2011)
Dir. Louis C.K.

from TrixRabbi

The Revenge Beating

Blue Collar (1978)

dir. Paul Schrader

Office Space (1998)
dir. Mike Judge

from TrixRabbi, who adds:

Both scenes involve workers taking revenge on a piece of machinery that constantly breaks down, a soda machine in Blue Collar and the fax machine in Office Space. It's also notable that both films are about a trio of tired, bottom-level workers who hatch a plan to rob their workplace.

The Shave

"Setting down his basin, the Negro searched among the razors, as for the sharpest, and having found it, gave it an additional edge by expertly stropping it on the firm, smooth, oily skin of his open palm; he then made a gesture as if to begin, but midway stood suspended for an instant, one hand elevating the razor, the other professionally dabbling among the bubbling suds on the Spaniard’s lank neck. Not unaffected by the close sight of the gleaming steel, Don Benito nervously shuddered, his usual ghastliness was heightened by the lather, which lather, again, was intensified in its hue by the sootiness of the Negro’s body. Altogether the scene was somewhat peculiar, at least to Captain Delano, nor, as he saw the two thus postured, could he resist the vagary, that in the black he saw a headsman, and in the white, a man at the block. But this was one of those antic conceits, appearing and vanishing in a breath, from which, perhaps, the best regulated mind is not free."
Benito Cereno (1855)
Herman Melville

"I spent my whole life here, right here in Candieland, surrounded by black faces. Now seein' 'em every day, day in and day out, I only had one question: why don't they kill us? Now right out there on that porch, three times a week for fifty years, old Ben here would shave my daddy with a straight razor. Now, if I was old Ben, I woulda cut my daddy's goddamn throat, an' it wouldn't-a taken me no fifty years of doin' neither. But he never did. Why not?"
Django Unchained (2012)
Quentin Tarantino

from trixrabbi

The Cornered Samurai

 

Throne of Blood (1957)
dir. Akira Kurosawa

Harakiri (1962)

dir. Masaki Kobayashi

from trixrabbi, who's amassing himself quite a collection.

The Screen

Peeping Tom (1960)
dir. Michael Powell

Star Trek "The Cage" (1966)
dir. Robert Butler


from TrixRabbi. Keep sendin' em in!

The Leg

The Graduate (1967)
dir. Mike Nichols

Louie "Bummer/Blueberries" (2011)
dir. Louis C.K.


from TrixRabbi

The Bubbles

Putney Swope (1969)
dir. Robert Downey, Sr.

Boogie Nights (1997)
dir. Paul Thomas Anderson


from TrixRabbi, who says: "Same general concept, and PTA is a big fan of Downey so it's almost for sure an homage."

The Kubrick Stare

The Shining (1980)
dir. Stanley Kubrick

Boogie Nights (1997)
dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

from TrixRabbi