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March 12, 2022 3:25 PM Subscribe
Looking for movies and TV shows where someone blocks a door with their foot.
For a project I'm working on, I'm trying to find clips from movies or TV shows where a character is trying to close a door and another character blocks it with their foot. Every search method I've tried has yielded minimal results, even though I know there are a lot of examples out there. So I am turning to the hive mind! Do any examples come to mind? Any genre or style is fair game. Titles are helpful, but bonus points for links to images or clips.
Thank you!
For a project I'm working on, I'm trying to find clips from movies or TV shows where a character is trying to close a door and another character blocks it with their foot. Every search method I've tried has yielded minimal results, even though I know there are a lot of examples out there. So I am turning to the hive mind! Do any examples come to mind? Any genre or style is fair game. Titles are helpful, but bonus points for links to images or clips.
Thank you!
This is opening a door, with specific instructions for the feet.
The question is frustrating, because my mind says I know so many examples, but I can't think of one! I heartily disrecommend searching YouTube for 'foot stuck', because it was all super gross things stuck in people's feet.
posted by Acari at 5:25 PM on March 12, 2022 [1 favorite]
The question is frustrating, because my mind says I know so many examples, but I can't think of one! I heartily disrecommend searching YouTube for 'foot stuck', because it was all super gross things stuck in people's feet.
posted by Acari at 5:25 PM on March 12, 2022 [1 favorite]
In the last or second-but-last episode of the first season of Beforeigners, there's an Odin evangelist trying to get in the door of the male lead's apartment and I'm about 95% sure he does this.
posted by ASF Tod und Schwerkraft at 6:23 PM on March 12, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by ASF Tod und Schwerkraft at 6:23 PM on March 12, 2022 [1 favorite]
I don't know but I'll help you search for a minute....
It happens over and over again in this video of a lawyer describing how to handle police doing this IRL, not a movie
Here is one from the movie UP
posted by McNulty at 6:54 PM on March 12, 2022 [1 favorite]
It happens over and over again in this video of a lawyer describing how to handle police doing this IRL, not a movie
Here is one from the movie UP
posted by McNulty at 6:54 PM on March 12, 2022 [1 favorite]
Here's another that doesn't quite match but it is when Joker first meets Sophie and holds the elevator door with his foot
posted by McNulty at 7:22 PM on March 12, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by McNulty at 7:22 PM on March 12, 2022 [1 favorite]
I finally found a real one in the movie Philomena (2013)but I can't find a clip of it. Here is the script excerpt.
F INT. HIRE CAR, POTOMAC VILLAGE HOUSE - DAY 112F
MARTIN goes to get out of the car
MARTIN
This shouldn’t take long...
PHILOMENA
(Suddenly panicking)
But he won’t want to speak to me -
he’ll just shut the door in your
face.
He gives her a confident smile and gets out of the car.
CUT TO:
112G EXT. POTOMAC VILLAGE HOUSE - DAY 112G
We follow MARTIN as he walks up to the front door and rings
the bell without hesitation. A few moments, then PETE answers
it.
MARTIN
Hello Peter Olssen?
PETE
Yes?
MARTIN
I’m Martin Sixsmith, I’m here with
Philomena Lee, the mother of your
late partner Michael Hess...
Sure enough, PETE’S immediate reaction is to shut the door on
him, but MARTIN jams his foot in it. He and PETE make eye
contact. So far so good.
MARTIN (cont’d)
Can I ask you a question?
PETE
If you move your foot.
MARTIN moves his foot - and PETE immediately slams the door
shut in his face. MARTIN has been completely outwitted.
CUT TO:
112H INT. HIRE CAR, POTOMAC VILLAGE HOUSE - DAY 112H
PHILOMENA in the car. She sees MARTIN turn away and walk
back, defeated. Her heart goes out to him, but she can feel
the anger rising in her. MARTIN gets in the car, utterly
deflated. A few moment’s silence:
posted by McNulty at 7:40 PM on March 12, 2022 [2 favorites]
F INT. HIRE CAR, POTOMAC VILLAGE HOUSE - DAY 112F
MARTIN goes to get out of the car
MARTIN
This shouldn’t take long...
PHILOMENA
(Suddenly panicking)
But he won’t want to speak to me -
he’ll just shut the door in your
face.
He gives her a confident smile and gets out of the car.
CUT TO:
112G EXT. POTOMAC VILLAGE HOUSE - DAY 112G
We follow MARTIN as he walks up to the front door and rings
the bell without hesitation. A few moments, then PETE answers
it.
MARTIN
Hello Peter Olssen?
PETE
Yes?
MARTIN
I’m Martin Sixsmith, I’m here with
Philomena Lee, the mother of your
late partner Michael Hess...
Sure enough, PETE’S immediate reaction is to shut the door on
him, but MARTIN jams his foot in it. He and PETE make eye
contact. So far so good.
MARTIN (cont’d)
Can I ask you a question?
PETE
If you move your foot.
MARTIN moves his foot - and PETE immediately slams the door
shut in his face. MARTIN has been completely outwitted.
CUT TO:
112H INT. HIRE CAR, POTOMAC VILLAGE HOUSE - DAY 112H
PHILOMENA in the car. She sees MARTIN turn away and walk
back, defeated. Her heart goes out to him, but she can feel
the anger rising in her. MARTIN gets in the car, utterly
deflated. A few moment’s silence:
posted by McNulty at 7:40 PM on March 12, 2022 [2 favorites]
Five seconds in to this, my favorite clip from the brilliant, hyper-dark deconstruction of the cute-girls-with-guns anime trope, Gunslinger Girl. Ultraviolence begins around 30 seconds in, so be advised.
posted by glonous keming at 10:34 PM on March 12, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by glonous keming at 10:34 PM on March 12, 2022 [1 favorite]
Does it have to be a foot only or can a whole body work? Field of Dreams, when Ray Kinsella goes to Terence Mann's apartment.
posted by cooker girl at 8:10 AM on March 13, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by cooker girl at 8:10 AM on March 13, 2022 [2 favorites]
Response by poster: Whole bodies work too, but feet or other objects in close-up are ideal. Thanks for all the leads so far!
posted by Ms. Toad at 8:15 AM on March 13, 2022
posted by Ms. Toad at 8:15 AM on March 13, 2022
Grover selling Kermit a toothbrush, a nose warmer, sunglasses, and a hairpiece.
posted by jocelmeow at 11:25 AM on March 13, 2022 [3 favorites]
posted by jocelmeow at 11:25 AM on March 13, 2022 [3 favorites]
Better Call Saul has Jimmy do this with potential client Mr. Acker.
posted by Rhaomi at 1:48 AM on March 16, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by Rhaomi at 1:48 AM on March 16, 2022 [1 favorite]
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