Baby Carriage: Difference between revisions

* The silent film ''[[Battleship Potemkin]]'' featured a Baby Carriage during the much-homaged "Odessa Steps" sequence, as shown in this page's image. It could be argued the whole trope of Baby Carriage is [[Homage]]s to ''Battleship Potemkin''.

** Probably the definitive Odessa Steps / Baby Carriage scene is the fight in the station in ''[[The Untouchables]]''. {{spoiler|Kevin Costner's character had to make a [[Sadistic Choice]] between dropping the baby carriage down a flight of stairs or shotgunning a mafioso. He dropped the carriage, but fortunately Andy Garcia's character was on hand to save it. '''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|By stopping it with his legs, while still shooting some bad guys]]'''. And the baby is okay in the end.}}

* Done with a twist at the beginning of ''[[Ghostbusters]] 2]]'', as the carriage itself starts the chase scene by moving by itself (due to the wheels coming in contact with the Pink Slime).

* Subverted in ''[[Speed (1994 film)|Speed]]'' where Annie is desperately trying to keep a bus above 50 miles an hour and can't dodge a pram, smashing it to kindling. She is suitably horrified until Keanu Reeves notices that there was no baby in there, only cans and the 'mother' was actually a homeless woman.

* Played straight in [[The Three Stooges]] short ''"Grips, Grunts and Groans''". While running from some train depot guards, the Stooges knock over a baby carriage - ''that contains a baby'' - and use the commotion of two women panicking over the injured infant to hide from their pursuers.

* Subversion: In ''[[Batman]] Forever]]'', the Batmobile is stopped mid-pursuit by an elderly crone pushing a baby stroller. After the vehicle screeches to a halt, the "Old Crone" whips off a shawl to reveal [[Big Bad]] Two Face, who then takes a rocket launcher out of the baby carriage.

* This is played with, along with other chase cliches, in [[Batman: The Movie|the 1960s ''[[Batman]]'' film]]. Trying to [[Bomb Disposal|ditch an explosive]], Batman runs repeatedly into a woman with a baby carriage, a group of [[Nuns Are Funny|nuns]] and a marching band. After these repeat [[Overly Long Gag|several times]], he [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|looks the camera dead on]] and says "Somedays, you just can't get rid of a bomb."