From Woody Allen's Love and Death (1975):
"Such happy memories at our summer house -- there was grandpa and grandma, who'd been married for fifty years and still felt as deeply about one another as the day they met."
This has always been my single favorite gag in L&D, so you can imagine my surprise when I went to do a screen cap of the scene and discovered that the two actors are never actually in the same frame together; the shot actually pans from left to right under Allen's voiceover. The above composite (photoshopped by a certain beautiful and brilliant shady dame from Brooklyn) is, however, the way I've remembered the tableaux for lo these many years.
pdrano on 27 September 2010
That's lovely.
I haven't seen it in ages, but I think that's what they call a 'reveal'? The eventual view of Grandma's decades'-long pent-up, inexpressible rage.
the phantom creep on 27 September 2010
I just watched the clip on YouTube -- the pan to the grandma's face is, in fact, the punchline.
But I know what you mean -- I remembered the shot the same way.