Can you help me identify a movie based on a poor description of one minor character's odd mannerism?
December 12, 2008 7:13 AM Subscribe
Can you help me identify a movie based on a poor description of one minor character's odd mannerism?
OK, fairly recent movie, last ten or 15 years. I think it's a good movie, whatever that means. Anyway, there's a scene, I believe toward the beginning of the film, where several people are in a meeting with a manager of some sort. The manager is either making a decision, or absorbing some information or something, and he does a funny thing with his mouth where he sort of pulls his lips down over his teeth and rapidly flips his upper lip with his tongue.
It's a minor character, and there are no easy hooks into the plot, and I just CAN'T remember what movie it's in.
The set-up of the scene reminds me, in passing, of the scene in Rushmore where Max gets asks Herman for $35,000, Herman weighs things for a moment and says, "I'll give you twenty-five hundred." The moment of contemplation, that's where the other guy does his lip move.
This is, clearly, a matter of life and death.
OK, fairly recent movie, last ten or 15 years. I think it's a good movie, whatever that means. Anyway, there's a scene, I believe toward the beginning of the film, where several people are in a meeting with a manager of some sort. The manager is either making a decision, or absorbing some information or something, and he does a funny thing with his mouth where he sort of pulls his lips down over his teeth and rapidly flips his upper lip with his tongue.
It's a minor character, and there are no easy hooks into the plot, and I just CAN'T remember what movie it's in.
The set-up of the scene reminds me, in passing, of the scene in Rushmore where Max gets asks Herman for $35,000, Herman weighs things for a moment and says, "I'll give you twenty-five hundred." The moment of contemplation, that's where the other guy does his lip move.
This is, clearly, a matter of life and death.
Office Space.
The lip thing always grosses me out (and then I do it for the next hour)
posted by Cat Pie Hurts at 7:25 AM on December 12, 2008
The lip thing always grosses me out (and then I do it for the next hour)
posted by Cat Pie Hurts at 7:25 AM on December 12, 2008
Response by poster: Where/when in Office Space? I'm having a hard time fitting it in...
posted by dirtdirt at 7:31 AM on December 12, 2008
posted by dirtdirt at 7:31 AM on December 12, 2008
Response by poster: I guess really, I should've included a "where/when" clause in my question. I think I'll need enough context to be able to place it in the movie.
posted by dirtdirt at 7:38 AM on December 12, 2008
posted by dirtdirt at 7:38 AM on December 12, 2008
Best answer: A psychiatrist does something like this in Terry Gilliams Twelve Monkeys.
posted by Thug at 7:57 AM on December 12, 2008
posted by Thug at 7:57 AM on December 12, 2008
Best answer: Yeah, my first thought was Frank Gorshin's character in Twelve Monkeys. he does it when he is contemplating the room where Bruce Willis' character has disappeared from restraints and vanished while behind a locked door with no other exits.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 8:18 AM on December 12, 2008
posted by ricochet biscuit at 8:18 AM on December 12, 2008
Response by poster: Ding ding ding! It's Twelve Monkeys.
posted by dirtdirt at 8:26 AM on December 12, 2008
posted by dirtdirt at 8:26 AM on December 12, 2008
In Office Space - I believe when the Bob's offer Peter the new position - one of the Bob's pulls his upper lip back and licks his lips.
It wouldn't be this scene, but these would be the actors : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISpsK5MwnXY
posted by Brettus at 8:28 AM on December 12, 2008
It wouldn't be this scene, but these would be the actors : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISpsK5MwnXY
posted by Brettus at 8:28 AM on December 12, 2008
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