Mainstream Movies - Hollywood Answers The Call!
Welcome, you will find a large collection of scenes from mainstream films and television. All of these scenes have one thing in common.... The Bathroom.
I've always wonder what makes a great toilet scene in a movie, but I've never been able to find a database or resource on the web that dealt with this particular subject.... I've decided to put an alphabetical listing of toilet scenes that appear in mainstream movies. I'm starting off with movies I have seen, but to really get this list large, I need time so bare with me.
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Doesn't anybody close the bathroom door anymore?
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Not in Hollywood, it seems. By now we're used to bubble baths, exploding toilets and even weirder bathroom scenes in the movies. They've become, excuse us, fixtures on the screen. You can be pretty sure something's up when the action on screen -- in TV or the movies -- moves into the bathroom. There are three possible outcomes. Something heartwarming is about to happen (the bubble bath in "Pretty Woman") something personal is about to be revealed about a character (Jack Nicholson's obsessive-compulsive hand washing in "As Good As It Gets") or something really bad is about to happen ("Psycho"). How times have changed since the "do not disturb" sign came off the bathroom door. The water closet was generally located offscreen, a place that Hollywood movie stars rarely seemed to feel the need to visit. As screen gods and goddesses, perhaps they were beyond the call of nature.
Movies were escapism, and there is hardly anything less escapist than the toilet. So, perhaps it's appropriate that it took a Catholic filmmaker, Alfred Hitchcock, to bring the bathroom into the cinematic mainstream for the first time -- in Psycho (1960), the granddaddy of all great plumbing movies.
Movies Flush With Bathroom Scenes.
It wasn't until the early '70s that the toilet became a punch line -- and even then it was just as a noise. "It was like a big comedy breakthrough when you heard the toilet flush on 'All in the Family,' " Gottlieb says. "The Brady Bunch Movie," the spoofamatic movie masterpiece of 1995, pokes direct fun at the prudery that ruled Sitcomland back in the '70s, including "The Brady Bunch" series. The potty joke comes when a neighbor describes the mystery of the Brady household: "I was over there once. One bathroom for nine people . . . and I never did see a toilet. "Leave It to Beaver" in the late '50s and early '60s is credited with showing the first toilet on TV. Now the bathroom is mainstream, from ads to pop music. The laughter leavens (or intensifies) the horror, shame, embarrasment, and vulnerability we feel about sexual or excremental "bathroom behavior'' -- whether it's the ill-timed fart attacks in innumerable movies, from the bean-eating campfire cowboys in Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks, 1974) or the flatulent Great Dane in "10'' (Blake Edwards, 1979); the Jaws-like turd in the swimming pool in Caddyshack (Harold Ramis, 1980); the sounds of Leslie Nielsen relieving himself at length, amplified by a pubic -- er, public -- address system in The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (David Zucker, 1988); Peter Sellars' disastrous toilet encounters at a chic Hollywood affair in The Party (Blake Edwards, 1968); ... And although countless movies have shown people getting their heads flushed in the john as a form of punishment or humiliation, sometimes it's played for laughs -- as in The Worst Toilet in Scotland (showing just how low a junkie will sink) in Danny Boyle's Trainspotting (1996); or Mike Myers fighting off a nasty restroom assassin in Jay Roach's Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997); or the Nihilists (Flea and Peter Stormare) "warning" The Dude (Jeff Bridges), before pissing on his rug, in the Coen brothers' The Big Lebowski (1998).....The list goes on.
