Quickly Aging People

[mcoonce]

Anyone know any good examples of aging two people by 20 years in a matter of moments while they're working on something? I've gone blank on this.

[Banjaxed]

Re: Quickly Aging People

I find that having kids works wonders.

[odetotud]

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Montage

[DavidK]

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Anyone know any good examples of aging two people by 20 years in a matter of moments while they're working on something? I've gone blank on this.

Scene: They're in the laboratory at night, lab coats are strewn and he's fit and tanned and naked and she's shaking her shiny auburn hair and they're in doggy style heaven.

Later: They're in the laboratory at night on opposite sides of the bench and he looks wore out, prematurely gray and flabby and she in her brown polo-neck sweater looks over her spectacles at him and says "Are you going to order that pizza or sit there picking your goddam toenails all night?"

We're looking at about 12 seconds of screen time here. Is this the example you were looking for.

[NikeeGoddess]

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the hunger - david bowie aged 40 years in a matter of hours.

[asjah8]

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maybe indiana jones and the last crusade? the evil dude drank from the sparkly chalice instead of choosing the cup of a carpenter (the holy grail)... he was 40ish to dead in seconds.

[Fortean]

Quickly Aging People

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg7VUk4DjIk

[Donreel]

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I think it was in Avalon (dir. Barry Levinson) where, as I recall, the father and son finish dinner in the kitchen, father goes into the living room to watch TV, son tidies the kitchen, walks into living room.....and 10-20 years have passed. (I might not be remembering precisely; possibly only the POV moved into living room, where we see the suddenly aged father.) Depending on your scene, maybe you could adapt the gambit: one person leaves room, comes back....years have passed.
ETA:
There was that famous series of dissolves at the long dining room table in Citizen Kane, showing Kane and his wife growing emotionally distant over the years.

[NoTalentAssClown]

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FOREVER YOUNG? Doesn't Mel Gibson age super fast while trying to fly a plane or something?

[TheKeenGuy]

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Here's the CITIZEN KANE take on it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg7VUk4DjIk

[billmarq]

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The movie Up does this amazingly well, and although in cartoon form, the same could be done in a regular film.