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Lately I have been thinking about a scene from Boogie Nights. It is not particularly moving, I just feel that it is extremely well done. The scene I am talking about is when the main character and his 2 junkie friends go to the drug dealer's house intending to rob him. They take a bag of fake cocaine to sell the guy in order to get inside. All three of them are strung out and the suspense in the room is almost overwhelming. The combination of the visual atmosphere, the nervous tics and twitches of the 3 junkies, and the crazy chinese kid randomly blowing up firecrackers was making me nervous. Everyone in the room knows what is coming except the drug dealer and the junkies are freaking out about the possibility of being found out about the fake drugs and nervous about the robbery. The drug dealer is high and very animated, making every one even more nervous. I think at one point he starts to wave his new gun around. The entire time his armed bodyguard is standing silently in the background. But I think the key aspect of the scene is the music. The drug dealer is blasting music out of his stereo. He keeps going on about his own personal mix tapes that are all these pounding 80's songs. At one point, the tape suddenly cracks to a stop, resulting in complete silence while it changes sides. Eventually "Sister Christian" comes on and the building crescendo before the "motorin' " part just takes the suspense thru the ceiling until the whole scene explodes.
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