Wild Strawberries (1957) dir. Ingmar Bergman
tony ward | fall 2016
my FAVORITE tropes compiled thanks to some suggestions from others
- a character gets a sick burn and doesn’t realize it immediately, at some point later there’s just “HEY WAIT A MINUTE”
- the double take. this one’s an oldie but a goodie
- the injured character makes the killing shot that saves everyone else in a dangerous situation
- a character who isn’t speaking is doing something weird in the background, it’s subtle and never acknowledged it’s just there for those who notice it (pulling another character out of something they got stuck in, making a huge sandwich, etc)
- the beleaguered assistant inches away from smacking their boss
- “quick act natural”
- in that vein, the leader character was just in a shouting match with someone and when they come back the rest of the team scrambles to look like they weren’t listening at the door
- never forget: “he’s standing right behind me isn’t he”
- When a character mentions a normal past event and someone else mentions an absurd detail (”Don’t you remember what happened last time you went to the dentist?” “Those deaths were nothing to do with me”)
- Multiple characters banding together to lie about something
- Characters being split up for questioning
- Really stoic characters briefly becoming happy, freaking everyone out
- “I think that went well!” *Distant explosion*
-“quick act natural” *everyone scrambles to do completely random shit that looks anything but natural*
Also, *pulls larger and larger weapons from increasingly unlikely places*
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