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drfulci t1_j6c0ssz wrote

I don’t know about the first movie that did the slow clap, but Carrie did it at least 10 years before Lucas.

Edit: I’m 100% wrong. Had to look it up.

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stevenmoreso t1_j6e6xk3 wrote

The slow motion sequence when Carrie gets crowned at the prom? That doesn’t count as a slow clap.

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drfulci t1_j6g4y53 wrote

You’re right. I had to look it up. My childhood in the 80s was spent watching horror movies.

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chrispy-au t1_j6c3tq6 wrote

Also introduced a certain actor to anal sex, apparently..

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Ojisan1 t1_j6c88fn wrote

> "This wasn't like a one time thing he said in passing. It wasn't like, 'Oh, by the way, this happened.' He went into great detail," a crying Feldman said in the documentary about Haim, who died from pneumonia in 2010. "He told me, 'Charlie bent me over in between two trailers and put Crisco oil on my butt and raped me in broad daylight. Anybody could have walked by, anybody could have seen it.'"

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amanamongbotss t1_j6e2pt5 wrote

What the fuck. Charlie Sheen was raping teens?

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Fondren_Richmond t1_j6fvku3 wrote

probably not

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GaiaAnon t1_j6fxt6e wrote

Because Corey Haim totally made it up? Why would he do that? It certainly wasn't for attention since he didn't tell anyone (except Feldman)

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HPmoni t1_j6jevpk wrote

All these guys had serious drug priorities.

Feldman also couldn't decide if Michael Jackson was a pervert.

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Fondren_Richmond t1_j6kyulf wrote

Feldman made it up or switched names to someone more noticeable, and waited until Haim wasn't around to rebut or retract it.

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TinyDayDreamer0 t1_j6c4dna wrote

what's slow clap

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Reset_Tears t1_j6ck467 wrote

I think the idea is that there's a dramatic moment in the movie where the protagonist achieves their dream or what have you, one person (a friend, mentor, or lover) starts clapping very slowly to break the deafening silence, and then slowly but surely everyone else starts joining in until there's a full minute of roaring applause from the whole crowd, and even a character or two who hated the protagonist earlier in the film will join in.

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FLEXXMAN33 t1_j6jwtg6 wrote

I don't know about what it is in Lucas, but these days it's usually a sarcastic clap meant to show you don't like a performance. On a related note, this is why Eric Clapton is called "slow hand". Apparently audiences would give him a slow clap when he replaced his guitar string on stage.

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roflredditwaffle t1_j6mgcx1 wrote

Thats not what a slow clap is. The slow clap is when theres a crowd staring at a character in disbelief, or shock, or whatever, and then one person starts clapping slowly. As they increase their clapping speed, the rest of the crowd joins in and usually ends with everyone cheering for the character.

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FLEXXMAN33 t1_j6mr2b5 wrote

I've seen Citizen Cane and I remember that scene, but is it possible there's more than one occasion to clap slowly?

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rapiertwit t1_j6odnnw wrote

Also introduced me to my lifelong fascination with redheads with brown eyes.

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