Comments on: Hit By A Bus: Mean Girls, Nip/Tuck, Final Destination, Lost, Felicity

By: pupsintrouble

pupsintrouble — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 23:18:41 +0000

so awesome.

By: marisa

marisa — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 16:46:00 +0000

nice job, dood! the framing is different, but will ferrell gets hit by a bus in stranger than fiction… my favorite moment, ever, of a film’s character colliding with a vehicle is when wayne’s admirer rides her bike into the hood of a car in wayne’s world. i think about it all the time. great piece, mike!

By: tom moody

tom moody — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 22:42:55 +0000

Great job.
Living in NYC I can relate to this. Those drivers aim for you and accelerate.
These can be divided into:

Quick view of CGI flattened person after the bus hits
vs
Victim just disappears

and

Foreground character (if there is one) flinches (2 do this)
vs
Non-flinching (1 does not flinch, at least in the clip.)

By: guthrie

guthrie — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 21:31:23 +0000

WOW

By: marky mark

marky mark — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 21:27:41 +0000

devil’s rejects has a girl gettin hit by a bus like that as well i believe :D

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:42:47 +0000

cant think of any myself, nice piece….

By: Jeff S

Jeff S — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:06:01 +0000

I like that the convention that they are all essentially in dialogue with the camera / another character while this happens
real “First Scene of Law and Order” style

By: mbs

mbs — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:03:16 +0000

Thanks dudes.

Here’s the Meet Joe Black clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRublmZhhAk
(it’s a minivan).

By: jmb

jmb — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:56:18 +0000

but meet joe black isnt a bus right? its just a car? i cant remember it has been years since i have seen that movie.

great job mbs

By: joel

joel — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:49:15 +0000

OMG, tight! This is just what I needed today. Also, there is Meet Joe Black.