Results tagged “cheese” from Overlooked

The freeze frame movie ending does not seem to pop up as often as it used to, which we may openly blame on more modern films such as "Raise Your Voice." Still, fond memories have been built around freeze frame high fives, and creepy stills of possessed children, and they hold special places in our hearts. So special, in fact, that I am certain we have a habit of recreating these freeze frames in everyday life. For the past few days, I have made it my mission to find the mannerisms, facial expressions, and seemingly original pop culture references born of classic freeze frame film endings.

INFLUENTIAL FREEZE FRAMES (in no particular order)

THE FAMED FRAME	EVIDENCE OF INFLUENCE
The Breakfast Club (1985)	Whoomp There It Is (1993)
Uncle Buck (1989)	Charlie Cheese (2007)
Purple Rain (1984)	Stare Down Sally (1997)
Sleepaway Camp (1983)	Naruto (2002-2009)
Taking of Pelham 1,2,3 (1974)	Pissed Penguin (2007)

Now that I have finished my lesson on historical--and by historical I mean old, and by old I mean circa anytime before the last installation of Harry Potter--pop-culture similitude, let's go over a few movies that had much better success than "Raise Your Voice" with the simple (yet classic) zoom-in-on-the-face freeze frame.

Uncle Buck (though not great, better than "Raise your Voice")

The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3 (The Original...I <3 Walter Matthau)

Les Quatre Cents Coups (The 400 Blows)

I am trying to imagine the contents of this book.

Out with it, goat!

Notice the "Fact & Fiction" tag at the bottom right corner. Are there rampant fictions being spread right now about goat cheese? Have the cow cheese makers started telling nasty lies about goat cheeses, like goat cheese is actually made from baby goats? Is the moon not, in fact, a giant Crottin de Chavignol? Is goat cheese likely to kill you tomorrow?

Amazon is less than helpful. There are no reviews, no comments, no "See Inside This Book!", nothing.

The face of the goat on the cover is inscrutable. She is contemplating cheese; is she also contemplating the laughing goat? There are no "thought bubbles" connecting the two; perhaps he is a figment of her imagination. (And no, there is no particular reason I chose those genders for the goats; I just needed a handy way to distinguish them, and the pensive expression the brown goat suggests that she is thinking about where her milk is going.)

In short, what is going on here? If anyone out there has read this book, please tell me. I love goat cheese and I don't want to give it up because it might make me go insane or something. Thanks!

Ed. note: Welcome to Faye and many thanks for allowing us to reprint this blog post from The Holophusicon!