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Coffee and Cigarettes
2004 · Film · 97 min
Directed by Jim Jarmusch
An anthology of eleven vignettes featuring star-studded casts of extremely unique individuals who all share the common activities of conversing while drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes.
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- Hair (and listened soundtrack hundreds of times)
- Coffee and Cigarettes
- Before Sunrise (and to less extent - Before Sunset)
- Pulp Fiction
- Clerks, Chasing Amy
- Leon Professional
- Motorcycle Diaries
These are not as interesting since I assume they're on everyone's list, but I must admit I'm rewatching all movies in the series, even those which are considered weak:
- Lotr, Godfather, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Matrix
One of my favourite LEGO MOCs ("My Own Creation" although this one isn't my creation) I've seen has been Iggy Pop and Tom Waits from the movie Coffee and Cigarettes:
https://bricknerd.com/home/cigarettes-and-coffee-man-thats-a-combination-9-2020
https://singersincinema.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/0.jpg
There's some plans out there for fantastically detailed models with thousands of pieces, for instance The Sulaco from the movie Aliens: https://www.reddit.com/r/LV426/comments/vs6b1x/as_promisedthe_10529_pieces_lego_real_build_uss/ (that one is definitely a lottery-win purchase!)
It’s a comedy trope. Seinfeld is probably most famous for the formula with back-references throughout the series. Arrested Development dabbled in it, and Community took it to the extreme of whole story arcs. Brooklyn 99 and New Girl revel in it. A less comedy-specific example, Buffy, created a role for the throw away character (Spike) because he was so well received, then went on to do several more episodes along a similar theme (Zeppo, the one about Jonathan being a superhero, the musical, come to mind).
Movies are less susceptible to being described as formulaic, but an iconic movie, The Big Lebowski, could reasonably be summarized this way (albeit the series is serialized into one piece). Coffee and Cigarettes doesn’t satisfy the “nobodies” in the literal sense, but it’s almost entirely this formula.
I’m just citing examples I can think of, I haven’t watched most of what people have watched. And I don’t mean in any way to dismiss the actual work, or the concept, or your finding novelty in it. It’s a really cool device for storytelling, but it’s definitely not a unique device.
A few films with an emphasis on dialogue. Made me realize how much can be carried (plot, mood, the whole world of the work of art) by party A and party B doing nothing but talking.
* Jiang Wen - Keep Cool https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_Cool_(film)
* Malle - My Dinner with Andre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Dinner_with_Andre
* Jarmusch - Coffe and Cigarettes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_and_Cigarettes