Today’s Ban
August 25th, 2004
I would just like to take a moment to ban something.
Today, I would like to ban standing ovations in movies. The kind of standing ovations that come at the end of a particularly stressful speech scenario as illustrated in such great standing-ovations-at-the-end-movies like Scent of a Woman, The Girl Next Door, In and Out, Mr. Holland’s Opus, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and many many many many many more. (These are scenes within the movie itself where characters get up and perform a standing ovation.)
Nobody takes part in standing ovations in the real world, and if they do it’s because they feel guilty because someone else stood up. Nobody in the right mind wants to stand up at a seated event. They don’t. And so I have chosen to ban standing ovations in movies, for today.
