Fast Motion used dramatically?

Submitted by Hailstormshed t3_11eip1z in movies

Slow-motion is a fairly common thing in movies- it can be used for dramatic or comedic effect, depending on how it's done. Fast motion, on the other hand, is almost inherently comedic in nature. Can you think of any times fast motion is used in a non-comedic manner? I'm not sure if I should count vfx "fast motion", like in superhero movies. If possible, I guess examples where it's not an in-universe fast motion would probably be best, as those are less comedic by nature.

I can think of one example, and that's a scene in "In Space with Markiplier", where Mark goes insane in a locked room and builds a wormhole device. It's not a fast motion within the universe, in fact, it's explicitly stating that it was an excruciating period of multiple lifetimes. I think they may have gone in frame by frame from the larger motions to delete them and prevent anything from looking goofy.

Can you think of any other examples of this?

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theyusedthelamppost t1_jae9ofu wrote

no idea if this is what you mean

but during certain action sequences in Spiderverse and Puss in Boots The Last Wish switched to different type of animation that felt "faster" and was really cool.

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Danimalhaus418 t1_jaec87n wrote

The apartment cleaning scene in “Requiem For A Dream” I think is an example of using sped up playback for dramatic effect. It’s used to showcase Ellen Burstyn’s different type of addiction and how she is reacting to her diet pills.

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cerberaspeedtwelve t1_jaedwvw wrote

A Clockwork Orange, kinda sorta. Fast motion is used during the orgy scene. However, they're also playing Bach in the background. In typical Kubrick fashion, he's going for a kind of black comedy feel. We've already seen how dangerous and sociopathic Alex and his droogs are. The comedy comes from juxtaposing this with them drinking milk at a futuristic milk bar, and picking up two beauties to go back to his place and have group sex to classical music.

If anything, the whole scene helps shed some light on what the inside of Alex's mind looks like, and it's clearly a crazy and disturbing place. Fast motion? Sure, bring it on. Couldn't make things any weirder.

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spinyfur t1_jaee4pm wrote

True Blood used it quite a bit. It’s campy, but not really a comedy.

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jessebona t1_jaeeult wrote

I can only think of a couple off the top of my head and the first is debatable as to how it falls on the comedic/drama scale.

In Big Fish Edward meets the love of his life and comments that people are right about time standing still, but they don't tell you it compensates by moving extra fast to catch up and she leaves before he ever has a chance to ask who she is or even talk to her.

In Cube 2: Hypercube a couple of the group members end up in a trap room with accelerated time and wind up aging into skeletons while having sex.

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JeffRyan1 t1_jaef3fy wrote

Every talks about the unforgettable opening scene of Ghost Ship, but there's another scene, shot in fast motion, that's (to me) just as jaw-dropping. It shows a series of crimes -- murders, double-crosses, triple-crosses -- and it's done in fast motion, so that you're not supposed to be able to track the shifting alliances of who's betraying who. All you can glean is that the number of people alive on the boat is dropping every few seconds, all by desperate human greed.

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