39,327
edits
Beat Still My Heart: Difference between revisions
m
revise quote template spacing
m (update links) |
m (revise quote template spacing) |
||
Line 1:
{{trope}}
{{quote|''At your command
before you here I stand
my heart is in my hand.. (yeech!)''|'''[[Tom Lehrer]]''', "[[The Masochism Tango]]"}}
Line 55:
* Davy Jones uses the [[Soul Jar]] variant in ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]''.
* ''[[The Last of the Mohicans|Last of the Mohicans]]'': "When the grey-hair dies, Magua will eat his heart." And he does, cutting the still-beating heart from his body.
{{quote|
* In ''Bride of [[Re-Animator]]'', the main characters use {{spoiler|Meg}}'s preserved heart when creating the Bride. It's an indicator of Dan's inability to move on after {{spoiler|Meg}}'s death -- he wants to transfer a part of her life into the new body. In the final shot of the film, {{spoiler|the heart lies on a table beside the Bride's dismembered body, stops beating, and ''shrinks'' slightly before the [[Fade to Black]]}}. Symbolic, baby.
* In ''Bordello of Blood'', a heart ''begins'' beating while outside of the owner's body. (In fact, it reconstructs itself first.)
Line 61:
* ''Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah'', a 2001 [[Godzilla]] movie, features this as a Plot Twist seconds before the credits. {{spoiler|It's Godzilla's.}}
* ''[[Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom]]'', Mola Ram. Oh, god, the horror. ''It was on fire''. And when you're watching that as an 8-year-old? Ladies and gentlemen we have a new definition for "good old-fashioned [[Nightmare Fuel]]".
{{quote|
'''Sacrifice Victim''': Om Namha Shivaye, Om Namha Shivaye, Om Namha Shivaye...'''''' }}
* When the [[Mayincatec]] cut out the hearts of their sacrifical victims they will often be shown still beating.
Line 96:
* In ''[[Bridge of Birds]]'' by Barry Hughart removing one's heart is a key to invulnerability. Alas, the ritual renders the person heartless both literally and [[Immortality Immorality|figuratively]]. Also, the heartless tend to long for the "cold" things (treasure) above all else.
** Also the usual fairy-tale choice of hiding places for the removed heart is lampshaded:
{{quote|
* In an alternate-organ variation, the first book of the ''[[His Dark Materials]]'' series mentions a variant of the [[Real Life]] Viking "blood eagle" torture, in which a victim's lungs are pulled out of slits in their back. In the universe of ''[[His Dark Materials]]'', where everyone has a daemon-spirit companion, ''this isn't immediately fatal'', as the victim's daemon is reputedly able to prolong life for a time by manually pumping the protruding lungs of its companion.
* Rare, not-done-to-be-creepy example: A short story by Michelle Lawrence, "[http://www.identitytheory.com/fiction/lawrence_lividity.php Lividity]", begins with the main character cutting out her heart and leaving it on the fence (still beating) for her married neighbor. It is a metaphor.
Line 117:
* Hard 'N Phirm's "El Corazon" is a song all about the heart, sung Spanish-ballad style. Part of the translation is: "It can continue to beat long after its removal from the body, as we see with this turtle's heart." (It makes more sense if you're seeing it performed live; there's a video going on behind them that illustrates the line.)
* Ludo's "The Horror of Our Love" is a song about a serial killer/kidnapper/rapist who falls in love with one of his victims. The climax of the protagonist's experience comes at the following lyrics:
{{quote|
You die like angels sing..." }}
Line 242:
* Anthony Bourdain and Andrew Zimmern have both swallowed beating snake hearts on camera as part of their Travel Channel shows. (See below.)
* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Girl In The Fireplace" features the repair robots of a damaged starship repairing its systems with the organs of the crew - an eye as the lens of a camera, and a beating heart as a pump wired into the pipes.
{{quote|
'''Doctor:''' Fifty people don't just ''disappear'', where -- Oh. You didn't have the parts, so you used the crew... }}
* One of the episodes of First Wave had an autopsy preformed on the body of Cade Foster. When coroner (who commented about the body being too fresh) pulled out his heart it started beating for a few seconds.
Line 251:
* [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s song ''CNR'' paints the late actor Charles Nelson Reilly as a Chuck Norris-style [[Memetic Badass]] who, among other things, could "rip out your beating heart, and show it to you right before you died".
* [[Avenged Sevenfold]]'s song about murder, necrophilia, zombies, and love, "Little Piece of Heaven" includes this gem:
{{quote|
| |||