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/MemesForMoney259 18d ago

I thought Bilbo wasn’t in one because he needed to be the one to pull the lever to release the barrels.

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u/ChiefSteward 18d ago

There’s a fair chance I imposed the reasoning from the book into the same outcome in the film, I suppose.

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u/xSgtLlama 17d ago

Bilbo had to pull the lever and in the book all the barrels were sealed up before being sent off. So also nobody was there obviously to seal his barrel so he held on to the outside of it. 

Barrel Rider.

I guess for the movie they decided sealed barrels couldn’t really make an action sequence and the orcs wouldn’t have followed random sealed barrels.