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Looking for movies with a classic graduate cap toss: the speech is over, the plot comes to a pleasing conclusion, and then everybody, preferably the whole school, takes their hats off and tosses them in the air, in slo-mo. The sky is blue, it's a stock photography moment. What are movies or TV shows with this oh-so-cliche scene?
I feel as though I remember this happening in one or more of the Police Academy movies.
posted by XMLicious at 9:29 PM on March 24, 2013
posted by XMLicious at 9:29 PM on March 24, 2013
Sam Raimi's Spider-Man has one.
posted by incountrysleep at 9:36 PM on March 24, 2013
posted by incountrysleep at 9:36 PM on March 24, 2013
High School Musical 3
....well, it's true....
posted by These Birds of a Feather at 12:11 AM on March 25, 2013 [2 favorites]
....well, it's true....
posted by These Birds of a Feather at 12:11 AM on March 25, 2013 [2 favorites]
I believe Heaven's Gate has one near the start, though I can't find confirmation online.
posted by pont at 2:05 AM on March 25, 2013
posted by pont at 2:05 AM on March 25, 2013
Grease
posted by billiebee at 2:53 AM on March 25, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by billiebee at 2:53 AM on March 25, 2013 [1 favorite]
With Honors.
Paper Chase ends with Hart at the ocean with the paper airplane.
posted by professor plum with a rope at 2:55 AM on March 25, 2013
Paper Chase ends with Hart at the ocean with the paper airplane.
posted by professor plum with a rope at 2:55 AM on March 25, 2013
Here is the scene from With Honors. Shot at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
posted by professor plum with a rope at 2:59 AM on March 25, 2013
posted by professor plum with a rope at 2:59 AM on March 25, 2013
The beginning of One Crazy Summer has this, with the bonus of someone being impaled by one of the caps.
posted by mikepop at 4:55 AM on March 25, 2013
posted by mikepop at 4:55 AM on March 25, 2013
Into the Wild
(I haven't seen the movie, but was an extra. I really hope all that hat throwing made it in.)
posted by dizziest at 7:32 AM on March 25, 2013
(I haven't seen the movie, but was an extra. I really hope all that hat throwing made it in.)
posted by dizziest at 7:32 AM on March 25, 2013
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posted by Mchelly at 9:29 PM on March 24, 2013