{"id":31,"date":"2018-04-06T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T18:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bender-lib.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2018\/04\/06\/five-films-featuring-characters-hanging-upside-down\/"},"modified":"2018-04-06T14:10:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T18:10:00","slug":"five-films-featuring-characters-hanging-upside-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2018\/04\/06\/five-films-featuring-characters-hanging-upside-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Films Featuring&#8230;Characters Hanging Upside Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThis week, we&#8217;re taking a look at five different scenes in which characters hang upside down. I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s some bigger philosophical point to be made about inversion as in Alice in Wonderland, about the ways in which hanging upside down represents helplessness&#8211;to the ideal of beauty? to a torturer? to love?&#8211;for the characters, or possibly even the inherent physical comedy of characters in this ridiculous position. But out of sheer laziness, I will be pursuing none of those arguments in this blog post.<\/p>\n<h4>1. Jungle Book (HU&nbsp;DVD 6643)<\/h4>\n<p>This scene with Kaa has Mowgli hanging all kinds of ways, and it is so artfully animated that I remember it frame for frame. Insanely well executed animation to produce this very humorous example.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h4>2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (HU&nbsp;DVD 6047)<\/h4>\n<p>It happens so fast in the movies that you might miss it, but one of the ways James bullies Severus is with the jinx <a href=\"http:\/\/harrypotter.wikia.com\/wiki\/Levicorpus\">Levicorpus<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/04\/Severus_Snape_Being_Bullied_By_James_Potter.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"159\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/04\/Severus_Snape_Being_Bullied_By_James_Potter-300x149.png\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>3. Spiderman (HU DVD 7121)<\/h4>\n<p>The kiss. You know the one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/04\/spider-2Bman-2Bkiss-2BGIF-downsized_large.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"176\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/04\/spider-2Bman-2Bkiss-2BGIF-downsized_large-300x166.gif\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>4. American Gigolo (HU DVD 4640)<\/h4>\n<p>Apparently this movie established Giorgio Armani in Hollywood, but I see no Armani in this scene. I&#8217;ve watched it several times. For research.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>5. Django Unchained (HU&nbsp;DVD 6208)<\/h4>\n<p>This scene is so horrible I can&#8217;t even watch it.<\/p>\n<p>Happy viewing!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, we&#8217;re taking a look at five different scenes in which characters hang upside down. 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