Before reading "Guts" from Chuck Palahniuk's Haunted, I was already afraid of the drain at the bottom of the pool after watching an episode of Emergency 911. After reading, I was sure it was a portal to hell.
Anyone else have a scene from a book or movie or real life experience that remains vivid and may have altered your perception of some mundane thing, task or anything else?
Another example: how Old Boy brought my attention to the usage of hammers as a torture device.
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Thanks to Psycho, I always check behind the shower curtain when I enter a bathroom.
The Truman Show has left every moment of my waking life uneasy.
On Guts, when I was a kid my friend had one of those above ground pools. I had to piss really bad and he told me to just go by the pump and it will suck all the piss out and be fine. I went over there and whipped my thing out, aim closely, and got my hand sucked in there. His dad had to come turn off the pump and took a few minutes to pry out my crumpled fist. NEVER TRUST FRIENDS.
When I watched the movie It as a kid, I was always paranoid when I showered. It must have been Tim Curry playing Pennywise that freaked me out but still.
@amazingrobots: Our shower curtain has a one foot wide horizontal strip at head level in the shower...still...
@Jack: I have never seen The Truman Show...will in the future. I've heard of it, never seen it.
@Renfield: I have this small thought...what if it had caught your "thing" instead? That would have...wait, I feel a pun coming.
@jacks_username: was thinking of dressing up as Georgie for Halloween...cheap costume
The Truman Show has also traumatized me and really I wouldn't be surprised if my life really is one show showing my misery is simply entertainment for the outside world.
Yeah 1 3 3, the whole world tunes in after American Idol to watch you fail...and masturbate.
When I was a kid, around five, I was pretending to be a cat and walk down the stairs on hands and knees. I lost my balance and tumbled down most of the stairs and landed in the side of the fireplace. I had to get stitches on the back of my shoulder. Now whenever I'm in a house where the stairs are on the same plane as the fireplace I get weirdly uncomfortable.
Also the grudge, when the hair chick comes up from under the blankets and kills one of the characters. I no longer think of being under the covers as being in a safe zone.
thanks to the contortionist handbook, i will never look at textbooks missing the white cardstock pages the same way... ever again.
I think growing up with the Internet desensitized me to most things, but I do know that my mum was traumatized by the Cybermen in the old Dr. Who when she was a kid and always thought criminals looked like cybermen.
When I was a kid, around five, I was pretending to be a cat and walk down the stairs on hands and knees.
If I'd seen you doing that, Raelyn, I think I would have been a bit freaked out... A bit too The Exorcist for me. :p
I think I tried that too, it didn't work out too well for me though.
Ever since the rat scene in American Psycho, I cannot look at rats the same. And I don't even have a vagina.
Also when I see a larger person eating something with tomato sauce, I'm instantly reminded of the Gluttony murder from Se7en.
Ha! I see. If I had known what the exorcist was at the time, I might have tried mimicking that instead... with the same results.
I used the scene from 'Wizard of Oz" where Toto pulls back the curtain to reveal the Wizard as a quack with a loudspeaker, as a metaphor to describe an abusive man in a self-help book I wrote. The feedback from readers kept my mailbox full for years. It so described their tormentor whose bluster dominated their lives until they "pulled back the curtain."
I use the visual impact of scenes in films as ideal metaphors and similes when it is something that is common knowledge. I always wondered if filmmakers know when they have done something that will become an icon for decades to come. I think of scenes such as the ending of "Casablanca" where Bogart says goodbye to Bergman. Many Bogie movies have those iconic moments. The Bacall scene in---was it "To have and Have Not"????---where she says, "You know how to whistle, don't you? You just pucker up your lips and...blow."
Wizard has so many iconic moments that I can't begin to list them. One on friendship: "Scarecrow, I will miss you most of all." Or, "Lions and tigers and bears, oh, my!"
I don't think there has been an iconic line in a film since a very young Tom Cruise, in "Risky Business," said, "Sometimes, you just have to say, 'what the fuck.'"
Team America: World Police brought to my attention the use of hammers as a suicide device
When I watched the movie It as a kid, I was always paranoid when I showered. It must have been Tim Curry playing Pennywise that freaked me out but still.
For me it was the sewer grates. Actually, I am closer to 30 and I still hear "Everything floats down here...." every time I pass one (although it doesn't scare me anymore).
BEEP BEEP RICHIE.
the boiling rabbit in"fatal attraction"
Not sure why, but the scene where the baby alien popped out of the guy's stomach totally ruined Ross Perot for me.
I will never consider chianti as anything other than an accompaniment for liver and fava beans.... thp thp thp thp thp
I get off work around 12:30am, and have to drive past quite a few bars to get to my apartment. Last night when I made a left turn past one of the bars, a girl ran out in the road and fell down because her heels were too tall for her and she was completely drunk; I almost hit her. I waited for her to get up so I could continue, but couldn't help noticing...it was my boss.
I will never look at her the same way again.
