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psychop_rex (psychop_rex) wrote in scans_daily,

Agreed - the 'killer is unidentifiable except for THIS ONE LITTLE THING' trope is a bit overused at times, but those really are memorable boots. I'd certainly recognize them if I saw them again.
Just to make a comparison, there was a movie I saw a while back- it was one of the dumb-ass sequels to 'Highlander', if I remember correctly - that also had a villain with recognizable shoes. How were they recognizable? Well, they had three silver crucifixes - two small, one big - inlaid into the leather. That's pretty distinctive, I guess, but the trouble was just WHERE on the shoes these were located. Not on the front. Not on the side, even. On the HEELS. The back of the heel, just below where the shoe ends and the ankle begins. So every time the bad guy showed up, there would be these DRAMATIC CLOSE-UPS and FAST ZOOMS on the heels of his shoes, showing the crucifixes in loving detail, with ominous WOOOOOO music playing. And during the inevitable meeting between hero and villain where the hero realizes that the villain is a (gasp!) former friend turned enemy, this is accomplished by him getting a split-second glance at the guy's HEELS and then gasping 'You!' Which was made even MORE retarded by the fact that the villain had NOT been wearing those shoes the last time they met, which was hundreds of years ago. Oy yoy yoy, Hollywood - you are a stupid, stupid place...
*Ahem* Anyway. That was the WRONG way way to do it. This is a pretty good example of the right way.