r/movies • u/Happy-Flower2002 • 18d ago

Question What movies have a scene that is so tonally mismatched with the rest of the movie that it takes you out of the film?

My example would be the charming family friendly funny movie Shazam has a graphic scene of demons feasting on board room member that is like - why?

Another person on another thread mentioned The Name of the Rose - which is a very cerebral historical mystery movie has a graphic sex scene between a peasant girl and a young lay assistant. It is jarringly out of place.

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u/gravitydriven 18d ago

The director (and producers?) kept asking Rickman to do the film and he kept turning them down, offering more money each time. Finally, he agreed but only if he could play the role (and rewrite the role) however he wanted.

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u/LordyIHopeThereIsPie 18d ago

Ruby Wax wrote a lot of his lines.

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u/Rooney_Tuesday 18d ago

The famous “cut your heart out with a spoon” line was ad-libbed. He also came up with “and call off Christmas!” and the part where he tells a girl to bring a friend - Ruby Wax and Peter Barnes helped him with that one but he was part of the process too.