Non Sequitur Scene/Film: Difference between revisions

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== Animated Film BLAMs ==

* Arguably a [[BLAM Episode|Big Lipped Alligator Movie]], or at very least a deliberately surreal [[Anachronism Stew]], Julie Taymor's ''[[Titus]]'' -- a [[This Is Your Premise on Drugs|modern adaptation]] of Shakespeare's ''[[Titus Andronicus (theatre)|Titus Andronicus]]'' -- features a scene in which one of the villains, played by [[Jonathan Rhys Meyers]], dances terrifyingly on a pool table to loud techno music, trussed up in red leather and with his hair in pigtails. It isn't the ''strangest'' scene in the movie by a long way, and it certainly isn't the most disturbing, but it's notable in that it contains no dialogue, has absolutely no basis in the original play (obviously), does nothing to further the plot, is never referenced again, and serves no purpose beyond making the audience just a little bit more amused/baffled/emotionally scarred than they already were.

* The "horror" movie ''Spookies'' starts with a boy named Billy running away from home on his thirteenth birthday because his parents ignore him. He wanders into a scary house, receives a scary birthday present and is buried alive(?). Then the main characters, who have never met or heard of Billy, show up and the rest of the movie happens with Billy never being mentioned again.

* Pretty much every [[Marx Brothers]] film contains these. For no reason whatsoever, most of the movies have a 10-15 minute scene in which we watch Chico play the piano with his one finger routine and Harpo move incredibly out of character to play a lovely melody on a harp.

** These were positive examples, seeing as they were beautiful and a major part of Harpo and Chico's characters, precisely ''because'' they're so OOC. The ''other'' musical numbers and romantic subplots on the other hand... but even those are explained by the fact that the studios felt that [[Viewers are Morons|no- one would watch a movie that didn't have romance.]]

 

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