Secondly, is this a cliche now? Has anyone used it to interesting or original effect recently?
― ryan (ryan), Sunday, 11 January 2004 07:30 (twenty-two years ago)
― udu wudu (udu wudu), Sunday, 11 January 2004 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)
― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Sunday, 11 January 2004 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)
― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Sunday, 11 January 2004 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 12 January 2004 01:53 (twenty-two years ago)
Thelma and Louise. But that's basically a cop of Butch&Sundance.
Is the ending of Insomnia (the original) a freeze frame. Cause that one really works. They tend not to.
― PVC (peeveecee), Monday, 12 January 2004 01:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 12 January 2004 02:04 (twenty-two years ago)
And I think Gimme Shelter.
― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 12 January 2004 09:20 (twenty-two years ago)
― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Monday, 12 January 2004 20:02 (twenty-two years ago)
― PVC (peeveecee), Monday, 12 January 2004 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)
― Neil Willett (Neil Willett), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)
― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 23:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― C-Man (C-Man), Friday, 16 January 2004 17:02 (twenty-two years ago)
― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Friday, 16 January 2004 18:04 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dave Gilbert, Monday, 19 January 2004 02:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)
Silent Night, Deadly Night
― theodore fogelsanger, Thursday, 1 April 2004 00:41 (twenty-two years ago)
La Jetee
heh heh..
― David Nolan (David N.), Thursday, 1 April 2004 22:55 (twenty-two years ago)
Electra Glide in Blue was on TV this morning. It ends on a fantastic freeze of long long loooonng truck-out shot, and stays frozen for a further long time as the color drains from the image and only after that do the credits appear.
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 13 March 2009 22:53 (seventeen years ago)
― abanana, Friday, 13 March 2009 23:34 (seventeen years ago)
An Unmarried Woman
― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 14 March 2009 01:51 (seventeen years ago)
surprised no one's mentioned two lane blacktop
that is the most effective use of freeze frame as final shot in film history
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Saturday, 14 March 2009 01:55 (seventeen years ago)
That freeze frame (with voiceover) at the end of Blue Collar, mentioned upthread, kind of ruins the movie.
― C0L1N B..., Saturday, 14 March 2009 01:56 (seventeen years ago)
the entire movie? that must be some freeze frame
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Saturday, 14 March 2009 01:57 (seventeen years ago)
Colin exaggerates. Did any precede 400 Blows?
Network
― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 14 March 2009 01:59 (seventeen years ago)
The final freeze was simply an accident. I told Léaud to look into the camera. He did, but quickly turned his eyes away. Since I wanted that brief look he gave me the moment before he turned, I had no choice but to hold on to it; hence the freeze.
-truffaut on the 400 blows
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Saturday, 14 March 2009 03:07 (seventeen years ago)
Weird. Just watched that movie again tonight.
― Nurse Detrius (Eric H.), Saturday, 14 March 2009 04:26 (seventeen years ago)
breaking away iirc
― andrew m., Friday, 27 March 2009 18:44 (seventeen years ago)
every episode of CHiPs
― eman, Sunday, 29 March 2009 07:03 (seventeen years ago)
― eman, Sunday, 29 March 2009 07:14 (seventeen years ago)
breakfast club
― 2 ears + 1 ❤ (Pillbox), Sunday, 29 March 2009 07:16 (seventeen years ago)
cannot *believe* nobody's mentioned "That Obscure Object Of Desire"...definitely the most effective freeze-frame ending I've seen, although maybe recency still burns its mark on my brain
― Stop relegating Hull you miserable gits! (country matters), Sunday, 29 March 2009 09:14 (seventeen years ago)
just finished sword of doom. amazing ending.
― sleep, Friday, 10 April 2009 16:28 (seventeen years ago)
State of Siege.
― Suggesteban Cambiasso (jim), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 02:33 (seventeen years ago)
― meisenfek, Friday, 17 April 2009 11:56 (seventeen years ago)
Sword of Doom
― meisenfek, Friday, 17 April 2009 12:08 (seventeen years ago)
― meisenfek, Friday, 17 April 2009 12:25 (seventeen years ago)
― meisenfek, Friday, 17 April 2009 19:58 (seventeen years ago)
― meisenfek, Friday, 17 April 2009 20:15 (seventeen years ago)
hey, theres Arthur Spooner!
― meisenfek, Friday, 17 April 2009 20:25 (seventeen years ago)
Topaz, since Hitchcock didn't have the footage he needed for the ending the studio wanted.
― naturally unfunny, though mechanically sound (Pancakes Hackman), Monday, 27 April 2009 16:05 (seventeen years ago)
i just saw the obscure (?) surreal fantasy Louis Malle-film "Black Moon" and it ends on a freeze frame of boobies!
― Ludo, Thursday, 30 April 2009 08:12 (seventeen years ago)
ye its a viral made for tv. still nice & frozen
― meisenfek, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 04:32 (seventeen years ago)
"Rocky" ends with a freeze frame of Rocky and Adrian.
― Maltodextrin, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 07:30 (seventeen years ago)
The Hustler which may or may not be the first Hollywood film to do this (there are additional freezes in the opening credits).
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 19:27 (seventeen years ago)
FM
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 19:28 (seventeen years ago)
Don't know if anybody watched Wanda on TCM tonight. Quite something--boring, fascinating, excellent freeze-frame ending.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 02:00 (fourteen years ago)
Harold and Maude
― *tera, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 02:51 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_-NfKakS6A
― （╯°□°）╯︵ mode squad） (dayo), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 01:07 (fourteen years ago)
lol
yes
― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 03:58 (fourteen years ago)
Beck's "Devil's Haircut" video is based on the concept of doing the final 400 Blows shot like 30 times in a row
― crutbeef (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 04:07 (fourteen years ago)
didn't the second Crocodile Dundee movie end in freeze frame?
also, that Corey Haim nerd flick Lucas, and Tough Guys (which I believe had a double freeze frame ending... the first shot of the heroes kicking a Mexican police officer in the crotch, and the second of them grinning at each other)
...don't know how or why I would remember these
― Chris S, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 04:38 (fourteen years ago)
Macon County Line
― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 08:34 (fourteen years ago)
Female Trouble
― Kevin John Bozelka, Thursday, 13 October 2011 00:51 (fourteen years ago)
When I was researching my book on if...., I tried to find out if 400 Blows was first, and asked around at the BFI. No one came up with anything earlier, but in the end I wasn't sure enough of the claim, and fudged it somehow.
― mark s, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 11:36 (fourteen years ago)
Up In Smoke
― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 12 November 2011 00:40 (fourteen years ago)
The Story of Qiu Ju
― 龜, Sunday, 16 March 2014 10:14 (twelve years ago)
The Hustler which may or may not be the first Hollywood film to do this
The Color of Money ends on a freeze-frame too, I think.
― clemenza, Monday, 17 March 2014 03:08 (twelve years ago)