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#60: Shoot the Shit
Nominator: @Johnbobb (4/5 remaining)
Character: Scott Pilgrim
Source Material: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

Scores:
Aesthetics: 1
Dominance: 1
Damn: 7
Total Score: 9/30

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHHZvNx3zrw

Johnbobb, if you were going for last place with this, you shouldn't have picked something that made me laugh my ass off.

This is such a glorious anticlimax. Despite the brevity of the clip, I was expecting some kind of Persona-style showdown with his Shadow, but instead of choosing violence (like the entire rest of the movie), Scott just... defuses the situation by talking things out off-screen. It's like one of those Friendship gag finishers from various Mortal Kombats, but more poignant.

This is distinctly different from the Saw clip before in that this was, by the most technical definition possible, a finishing move. The conflict was swiftly and totally resolved due to Scott's actions. Of course the nature of the shot means there's no aesthetic to talk about, and dominance isn't established because the entire point of the scene is for there not to be dominance. This kind of thing is what the Damn factor is for -- a quality that just doesn't fit what one might expect. Bravo.

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