Omio’s Top Phone Moments In Cinema
Movies are awesome. Omio thinks phones are awesome. Witness as we combine the two in a feature highlighting the best phone-related bits in movies! Yeah, we cheated a bit as they do not all contain mobile phones…but some of them do. Check them if you don’t believe us.
Scream
What’s It About, Then?
Scream take its place in movie history for revitalizing the slasher genre, and also for the most red herrings 
and messing with an increasingly savvy and jaded audience. Taking all the horror movie conventions and cutting them to ribbons, Scream ushered in a new era of clever self-referential cinema, which was fun until every damn film decided to do the same. There was Drew Barrymore in 1996, leading lady on the comeback trail, centre stage on the movie poster, mouthpiece at all the press junkets, only end up hanging from a tree in the first five minutes. Genius. Oh, spoiler.
It’s Good To Talk Moment
Why this scene goes down in telephony history is the dialogue between her character Casey and the killer. The movie opens on a shot of the phone, and ratchets up the tension as the caller reveals his shady intentions. As the tone switches from playful to menacing to deadly, the whole nature of the caller’s anonymity allows the audience to remain as scared as Casey through every stage of the conversation, popcorn rising along with the audience’s heart rate. Then the porch lights come on…
How It Would Work In Real Life
Trust me, girls don’t play when you call them with heavy breathing and cryptic jive. Creep around in a lady’s back garden and she would be exercising her Second Amendment right all over your Halloween-caped ass before the first witty retort could be uttered into that voice changer. Hell, you could be delivering an aid package of unicorns and sweets in broad daylight and she’d still cricket bat you Shaun of the Dead style. Women seem to get tetchy about the whole ‘stalking/threatening to disembowel’ thing. Go figure.
More follows…
Heat
What’s It About, Then?
“Pacino! De Niro! In the same film! In the same scene! Oh my stars!” That was pretty much everyone’s reaction to this movie on its release. Okay, not exactly, but they loved it. Michael Mann’s seminal crime drama ran the risk of being overshadowed with two of the biggest thespians in cinema chewing up the scenery, but it was the 
understated brilliance of both actors in the “conversation” scene that went down in history.
That, and one of the best shoot ‘em up moments as their botched bank heist spills out into the streets of LA.
It’s Good To Talk Moment
Most of the tension in this movie is Pacino playing the hunter to De Niro’s prey. They don’t meet until near the movie’s climax, our moment stems from an exchange over the phone. As the net tightens, De Niro’s character Neil turns on the duplicitous Van Zant (played by the awesome William Fictner), ending in possibly the coolest line ever uttered.
Van Zant: What are you doing?
Neil McCauley: What am I doing? I’m talking to an empty telephone.
Van Zant: I don’t understand.
Neil McCauley: ‘Cause there is a dead man on the other end of this line.
Not quite the original, but brings much levity to an otherwise dour scene…
How It Would Work In Real Life
De Niro doesn’t act. To him, it IS real life.
The Matrix
What’s It About, Then?
Should be called “Deus Ex Machina” for the amount of plot holes that are filled through the wonder of 
telephony. Salvation came in the form of a Nokia 8110, which hoodwinked many as the production edition of the famous ‘banana phone’ did not have the spring slider we all got so excited over. Nokia knew exactly what they were doing, promoting the ability of Neo to “save the world with the seamless connectivity provided by Nokia mobile phones.” Yeah…
It’s Good To Talk Moment
Plenty. Any of the ‘operator’ exchanges, the “what the s***” moment as the phone gets yoinked at the climax of the movie, but arguably the most poignant is when Cypher drops the mobile into the bin, thereby causing the undoing of the Nostromo crew.
How It Would Work In Real Life
Don’t know about you, but I’m still in my cubicle. No bald dude has told me of my true destiny, or that I’m amazing. Probably would have opened that package, put my own SIM in, and enjoyed a life of blissful mediocrity and free prototype Nokia. Either that or put it on eBay. Both better than ending up a blind deity, I think you’ll agree.
Cellular
What’s It About, Then?
Well, Cellular (or Nokia Presents : Cellular, to give its full name) is an exciting action adventure movie which places a young Nokia-owning man into a thrilling race against time to rescue a captive woman who manages to get through to his random number, despite not owning a Nokia. In a victory for product placement, I’m pretty sure that this movie would be YouTube fodder featuring me and my cousin Carl and some girl from the launderette if Nokia hadn’t stumped up $$$ to get it made. There is enough gratuitous Nokia 6600 placement that it deserved top billing next to Kim Basinger, and WAY above a pre-Fantastic Chris Evans.
It’s Good To Talk Moment
Take your pick! The whole film is centered around Chris Evan’s character staying on the line with Kim as he speeds to her rescue. He gets into all manner of mischief simply for answering the woman’s pleas! He steals cars, gets to bust caps to procure an official Nokia charger for his Nokia 6600, he drives like a maniac 
(whilst on the phone!!!!), blows up a car, steals ANOTHER car, crashes it up, engages in shed-based fisticuffs with William H. Macy AND saves the day! God bless you, Nokia 6600.
How It Would Work In Real Life
It would end pretty abruptly, with a low speed car chase and Chris getting bundled away in the back of a police van, I should imagine. He spends most of the film nattering away without a hands-free kit, which as we all know is a little bit illegal in places, whichever side of the Atlantic you’re currently floating about on. He should call the cops, from the car, just to tell them that he’s calling without using a hands-free kit. Then scream “You’ll never catch me alive, copper!” before roaring off into the night like a Liberty City immigrant. Another Second Amendment/Right To Remain Silent double whammy coming up…
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