Slap Happy

January 25, 2011 8:46 AM

Glove Actually: An Ode to Cinema's Greatest Slaps [7m10s]. (SLYT)
posted by hippybear (23 comments total)

Man Talk! *slap*
posted by phaedon at 8:56 AM on January 25, 2011 [1 favorite]

You really only need one.
posted by Senor Cardgage at 8:59 AM on January 25, 2011 [3 favorites]

That's good work.

The only slap I was expecting that didn't make it in [as far as I can tell] was Steve McQueen's epic workout on Ali McGraw in The Getaway.
posted by Joe Beese at 9:06 AM on January 25, 2011

What a disorienting experience to see the juxtaposition of comedic, slapstick violence (Three Stooges, Moonstruck) versus some the more gut-wrenching depictions (Raging Bull) all with the same jaunty piano score underneath. I can't decide if that 's a feature or a bug . . .
posted by barrett caulk at 9:12 AM on January 25, 2011 [2 favorites]

Joan Crawford really plows into that woman at :56.
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 9:19 AM on January 25, 2011 [1 favorite]

The tai chi student in me that learned to instinctively block incoming blows like that is protesting at these passive actors.

Also, I couldn't find a clip of the classic Simpsons gag song "Glove Slap".
posted by Burhanistan at 9:22 AM on January 25, 2011 [1 favorite]

I do love the wampa slap at 1:17.
posted by hot soup girl at 9:53 AM on January 25, 2011 [1 favorite]

That music really makes everything more... sinister? The juxtaposition, I suppose.
posted by cavalier at 10:18 AM on January 25, 2011

No fish-slapping dance? No Bugs Bunny letting Elmer Fudd have it? What a maroon.
posted by dances_with_sneetches at 10:54 AM on January 25, 2011

Ah, cinema's greatest hits. Woke me right up.
posted by kinnakeet at 10:56 AM on January 25, 2011

You really only need clips from pretty much any and all Joan Crawford or Bette Davis movies to make this compilation work. Exhibit A.
posted by blucevalo at 11:19 AM on January 25, 2011

Kinnakeet, that should have been the title of the piece for sure.
posted by Fraxas at 11:20 AM on January 25, 2011

It's interesting to hear the rich variety of fake face-slapping sounds. A couple of those Bette Davis ones sound like shotgun fire!

(I'm pretty sure two or three of the clips were more slug than slap, though.)
posted by Sys Rq at 11:38 AM on January 25, 2011

Wow... Lion King... it's so slappy.
posted by spec80 at 11:42 AM on January 25, 2011

Where's Waxpancake? He's got a huge collection of these supercuts.
posted by joelf at 3:07 PM on January 25, 2011

The slap in The Night of the Hunter always gets me.
posted by catwash at 3:09 PM on January 25, 2011 [1 favorite]

Good group of slaps. But missing Ronald Reagan slapping Angie Dickinson in The Killers and Angie Dickinson slapping [and punching] Lee Marvin in Point Blank. To name two.
posted by Rashomon at 3:56 PM on January 25, 2011

And then there's the Turkish movie version (the fun starts about 30 seconds in).
posted by klausness at 5:10 PM on January 25, 2011

After watching this I can confirm that I never want to be slapped by giant man wearing nothing but a jock-strap.
posted by bwg at 5:25 PM on January 25, 2011

After watching this I can confirm that I never want to be slapped by giant man wearing nothing but a jock-strap.

*cancels bwg's belated birthday gift order and sighs heavily*
posted by hippybear at 6:57 PM on January 25, 2011 [3 favorites]

I loved the 5 back to back Pirates of The Carribean slaps at about 3:50 in
posted by ShawnStruck at 9:11 AM on January 26, 2011

What I really like about this particular video collage is that it seems to have been thought through and planned. There is good pacing, there is clustering of similar slaps, there is juxtoposition... It isn't like someone just strung together a bunch of clips in the order in which they discovered them. It's more planned out, and that is part of what makes it work, for me anyway.
posted by hippybear at 9:30 AM on January 26, 2011

hippybear: "After watching this I can confirm that I never want to be slapped by giant man wearing nothing but a jock-strap.

*cancels bwg's belated birthday gift order and sighs heavily"

Cool, now I know what to get hippybear for his birthday.

Now to get in touch with Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje.
posted by bwg at 5:42 PM on January 26, 2011