This is a frivolous post, so forgive me. It is prompted by a casual exchange between Frisoli and Arnab regarding the somewhat regular cinematic appearance of Harvey Keitel’s peeeeenis. I watched “American Splendor” for a second time the other night, and I noticed that, as in “Sideways” there’s a (brief) shot of Giammati sitting on the crapper. Does anyone know of other films that feature Giammati pooping? And has anyone seen “Kings of the Road”–it features perhaps the most touching scene of a man pooping I’ve ever found in film (not that I look for it…often). Anywho, I take it that a man pooping is always a figure of pathos. I’ll be interested in seeing who responds to this first.
are you in the john, bruns?
can’t say i’ve noticed pooping paul dropping the kids off at the pool in any other movies but great poop scenes can be found in “dumb and dumber”, “harold and kumar go to whitecastle”, “sweet sweetback’s badass song” (actually this one is kind of disturbing), “prison on fire” and, of course, “gone with the wind”.
what rating do you think a film showing a full frontal (so to speak) pooping would garner? are you allowed to show poop emerging in hollywood?
note to self: include this conversation in re-appointment file next year.
The execrable “Dreamcatcher” is not only full of scenes about intestinal explosions, pooping is a central plot element.
“Trainspotting” has a full toilet. Or two.
Nicholson sits down to pee in “About Schmidt”–does that count?
Who would you like to see poop in a film? For me, it’s a toss-up between Freddie Prinze, Dame Judi Dench, and William Hurt.
Nicola and I watched the Dutch musical comedy Yes Nurse, No Nurse this past weekend and found it to be mildly amusing but fun to see such attention paid to old-fashioned musical tropes. Upon her return to her “home” (after a singing and dancing number in the streets which quotes heavily from Singin in the Rain), the first thing the female ingenue does is go to the toliet (door open for all to see). I’m not sure if she was pooping or not, but it certainly threw a few conventions out the window.
Oh yeah, and Mike likes it when Jeff Goldblum watches him poop . . . did you know that? I’d like to see Scarlett Johansson poop in a film. And Keanu Reeves pooping–in a film by the Wachowski Brothers (on a film by the Wachowski Brothers). And I’d like to see Keifer Sutherland poop in 24. Toshiru Mifune, I’d like to see him poop too. Is he alive? If he isn’t the pooping scene would be even more spectacular. Anthony Hopkins pooping, preferably in a film directed by Kenneth Branagh.
http://www.jeffgoldblumiswatchingyoupoop.com/