What do you mean?
August 30, 2013 3:57 PM Subscribe
So that was amazing.
Can someone shed some light on how a supercut of this sort of complexity is made? Like I have a pretty good head for quotes and dialogue but do the people who put these together have much better memories, or do they use some sort of digital assists e.g. some sort of script that goes through screenplays and plucks out the phrase and timecode?
posted by griphus at 4:17 PM on August 30, 2013 [1 favorite]
Can someone shed some light on how a supercut of this sort of complexity is made? Like I have a pretty good head for quotes and dialogue but do the people who put these together have much better memories, or do they use some sort of digital assists e.g. some sort of script that goes through screenplays and plucks out the phrase and timecode?
posted by griphus at 4:17 PM on August 30, 2013 [1 favorite]
I lost it at the Keanu smell-the-fart-acting moment. "What do you mean...[oh fuck oh fuck, what's the line?]...without him?"
posted by yoink at 4:18 PM on August 30, 2013
posted by yoink at 4:18 PM on August 30, 2013
What do you mean $20 same as in town?
posted by mullacc at 4:31 PM on August 30, 2013 [3 favorites]
posted by mullacc at 4:31 PM on August 30, 2013 [3 favorites]
No. No. No. No. No. You guys are doing this all wrong.
Here, I'll start it over...
OK, I really am laughing aloud!
What do you mean, laughing aloud?
posted by orme at 5:08 PM on August 30, 2013 [4 favorites]
Here, I'll start it over...
OK, I really am laughing aloud!
What do you mean, laughing aloud?
posted by orme at 5:08 PM on August 30, 2013 [4 favorites]
griphus: "Can someone shed some light on how a supercut of this sort of complexity is made? Like I have a pretty good head for quotes and dialogue but do the people who put these together have much better memories, or do they use some sort of digital assists e.g. some sort of script that goes through screenplays and plucks out the phrase and timecode?"
I imagine Subzin is a great resource. Maybe also TVTropes for the more visual stuff.
posted by Rhaomi at 5:13 PM on August 30, 2013 [4 favorites]
I imagine Subzin is a great resource. Maybe also TVTropes for the more visual stuff.
posted by Rhaomi at 5:13 PM on August 30, 2013 [4 favorites]
What do you mean, "visual stuff"? The parts of TVTropes I'm familiar with are almost entirely text.
posted by mbrubeck at 5:26 PM on August 30, 2013
posted by mbrubeck at 5:26 PM on August 30, 2013
Subzin's perfect for finding particular phrases of dialogue in movies, but a lot of supercuts are of visual things like walking away from an explosion or seeing something scary in the bathroom mirror. These are hard to find in a dialogue search, but if you can locate the article for that trope (one, two), you're bound to find dozens of examples from TV, film, etc.
posted by Rhaomi at 5:33 PM on August 30, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by Rhaomi at 5:33 PM on August 30, 2013 [2 favorites]
What do you mean, "What do you mean?"?
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 6:15 PM on August 30, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 6:15 PM on August 30, 2013 [1 favorite]
You really don't want to know what I mean.
posted by oneswellfoop at 6:16 PM on August 30, 2013
posted by oneswellfoop at 6:16 PM on August 30, 2013
griphus: "Can someone shed some light on how a supercut of this sort of complexity is made? Like I have a pretty good head for quotes and dialogue but do the people who put these together have much better memories, or do they use some sort of digital assists e.g. some sort of script that goes through screenplays and plucks out the phrase and timecode?"
Rhaomi: I imagine Subzin is a great resource. Maybe also TVTropes for the more visual stuff.
Ya, 2 minutes of searching on subzine gave me a combination of:
Inspector Gadget (1999) 00:34:23: you sure you've worked out all the bugs ?
Gladiator 01:54:46 What do you mean, "all the bugs"?
I suspect most of the time-consuming work would be cutting the clips together.
posted by WaylandSmith at 6:40 PM on August 30, 2013 [2 favorites]
Rhaomi: I imagine Subzin is a great resource. Maybe also TVTropes for the more visual stuff.
Ya, 2 minutes of searching on subzine gave me a combination of:
Inspector Gadget (1999) 00:34:23: you sure you've worked out all the bugs ?
Gladiator 01:54:46 What do you mean, "all the bugs"?
I suspect most of the time-consuming work would be cutting the clips together.
posted by WaylandSmith at 6:40 PM on August 30, 2013 [2 favorites]
I want to do a supercut (or rather, have someone with the time and resources do a supercut) of all the instances someone says "Are you ok?" and another with "Let's get outta here!"
posted by zardoz at 7:03 PM on August 30, 2013
posted by zardoz at 7:03 PM on August 30, 2013
zardoz, someone has done not 'Get out of Here' but Get Out Of There (as seen here)
posted by oneswellfoop at 7:29 PM on August 30, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by oneswellfoop at 7:29 PM on August 30, 2013 [1 favorite]
Webcomic characters saying "What?" (Requires registration)
posted by jiawen at 9:15 PM on August 30, 2013
posted by jiawen at 9:15 PM on August 30, 2013
My understanding is that these films were all originally watched back to back and the viewer noticed that if he removed certain parts this would be the end result so he did it.
posted by dobbs at 9:35 PM on August 30, 2013
posted by dobbs at 9:35 PM on August 30, 2013
That's the 'sculpture' method... you cut away everything that doesn't look like a person...
posted by oneswellfoop at 9:41 PM on August 30, 2013
posted by oneswellfoop at 9:41 PM on August 30, 2013
What do I mean by the word 'mean'? What do I mean by the word 'word'? What do I mean by 'what do I mean'? What do I mean by 'do' and what do I do by 'mean'? And what do I do by do by do and what do I mean by wasting your time like this? Good night.
posted by George_Spiggott at 11:56 PM on August 30, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by George_Spiggott at 11:56 PM on August 30, 2013 [1 favorite]
The extreme form of this is The Clock, which is a 24 hour film composed of footage of clocks shown in movies and TV shows.
posted by ymgve at 6:01 AM on August 31, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by ymgve at 6:01 AM on August 31, 2013 [1 favorite]
I like the fact that even in those couple of seconds, you can tell that Keanu Reeves can't act for shit.
posted by anothermug at 7:41 AM on August 31, 2013
posted by anothermug at 7:41 AM on August 31, 2013
Hey, he was good in River's Edge. At least compared to Crispin Glover.
posted by Sys Rq at 7:56 AM on August 31, 2013
posted by Sys Rq at 7:56 AM on August 31, 2013
Yeah, this site is pretty useful!
48 Hours, 00:28:18 — This is your car? It looks like you bought it from a brother.
Cheech & Chong's Next Movie 00:28:23 — What do you mean? Shit, I hot-wired it myself.
Tommy Boy, 01:10:58 — Dammit, Richard. The whole car smells like beer.
Return of the Secaucus Seven, 00:57:19 — What do you mean, beer?
Pulp Fiction, 00:08:01 — l'm talk¡ng about a glass of beer.
Pulp Fiction, 00:08:03 — And ¡n Par¡s, you can buy a beer at McDonald's.
An Education, 00:54:11 — What do you mean, Paris?
posted by not_on_display at 9:37 AM on August 31, 2013 [1 favorite]
48 Hours, 00:28:18 — This is your car? It looks like you bought it from a brother.
Cheech & Chong's Next Movie 00:28:23 — What do you mean? Shit, I hot-wired it myself.
Tommy Boy, 01:10:58 — Dammit, Richard. The whole car smells like beer.
Return of the Secaucus Seven, 00:57:19 — What do you mean, beer?
Pulp Fiction, 00:08:01 — l'm talk¡ng about a glass of beer.
Pulp Fiction, 00:08:03 — And ¡n Par¡s, you can buy a beer at McDonald's.
An Education, 00:54:11 — What do you mean, Paris?
posted by not_on_display at 9:37 AM on August 31, 2013 [1 favorite]
George_Spiggott: "What do I mean by the word 'mean'? "
Still amazed that Palin could reel off all that dialogue rapid fire like that.
posted by Chrysostom at 10:41 AM on August 31, 2013
Still amazed that Palin could reel off all that dialogue rapid fire like that.
posted by Chrysostom at 10:41 AM on August 31, 2013
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