Comments on: Defenestration: The Movie

By: bex

bex — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

to jump through a window yourself is not Defenestration

By: Phil Ward

Phil Ward — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ah, “In the garden of eden”, do you remember making out to that hymn?
A classic bit of window crashing there!

By: diggerdoug

diggerdoug — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I find it interesting how many of these have the same stock glass break sound effect.

By: dicebourbon

dicebourbon — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I love the sound of breaking glass.

By: Torley

Torley — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Defenestration is the new irony.

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I was going to go out and see that movie where James Franco cuts his arm off. Thanks to this, entertainment needs are sated. Thank you Interwebs!

By: Andrea James

Andrea James — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

For the record, I’d like to point out that some of these are technically adfenestration.

By: arthritix

arthritix — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

What about Ratatouille and Casino Royale?

From the clip, I could pick out a Terminator, A Beverly Hills Cop, Bourne Supremacy, and Goldfinger.

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Wait, no Poseidon Adventure capsizing?!??!!? FAIL!!!!!!

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Link fail for me. Go here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr_MQKff7Oc

By: Mother(Re)

Mother(Re) — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Well, I’m bitterly disappointed. I thought it said “wind-breaking excitement.”

By: Hanglyman

Hanglyman — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

That was great, but… no Phantasm 2? No Street Trash??

By: KeithIrwin

KeithIrwin — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I enjoyed watching it, but was disappointed with how little defenestration was in it. Defenestration is when something or someone is thrown out a window. Being thrown in through a window is not defenestration. Jumping out of a window is not defenestration (I suppose you could argue that they’re throwing themselves out, but that’s really stretching the meaning of the word). And jumping into a building through the window is definitely not defenestration. The bit where Ahnold goes smashing through the security screening thing-a-ma-bobby is also clearly not defenestration as no one is throwing him and it’s not a bloody window.

Clearly they should’ve called it “Defenestration and Friends” and then I’d have no complaint.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Not a single clip from Jackie Chans Police Story?! Cool vid though.

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“Bodies Bustin’ Glass”, perhaps?

By: voiceinthedistance

voiceinthedistance — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Shards of sugar glass (actually a resin these days, but not terribly poetic sounding).

By: Daemon

Daemon — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Beat me to it. ;)

By: dross1260

dross1260 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

i was hoping for a Prague period piece.

By: dculberson

dculberson — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I hereby nominate for an Academy Award 2010′s blockbuster Defenestration.

I never realized how fake cable pulls look until I saw them all strung together like this. Fake fake fake.

By: VICTOR JIMENEZ

VICTOR JIMENEZ — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Oh Boing Boing, you made my day again! ;)

At first I was: “uh… defenestration, eh”
Then I was: “Steven Seagal!!! OMFGBBQ! ROLFMAO!”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Defenestration – the Czech method of execution –

Here is link to the first Prague Defenestration (one of several) from the 1955 film Against them All

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

1419 one hundred years before Luther, the Czechs had the Hussite revolution after the protestant reformer Jan Hus was burned at the stake at the Council of Constance (having been promise safe conduct by Sigismund (King of Hungary and contender for his dead brother’s Crown in Bohemia).
Hus preached against the sale of indulgences, and the corruption of the Church (there were 3 popes at the time fighting against each other), and preaching in Czech as opposed to Latin (which most people didn’t understand).

the One-eyed general Jan Zizka – who was present at the defenestration went on to become a great leader. He raised a peasant army, taught them to use converted agricultural tools such as
flails as weapons. Utilized early guns and converted farm wagons, in circles to defeat mounted knights – sometimes being outnumbered 10-1. His force of appr 10,000 led to victory at Vitkov Hill and saved Prague from a force of 80,000 foreign mercenaries and crusaders sent by the pope.

No less than 5 crusades sent by the Pope were beaten back. His greatest victories came in the last four years of his life when he was completely blind. He never lost a battle.

He was the first to use field artillery in battle. He also organized the miliatary in disciplined units, something not done since the Romans, and wrote a military code of conduct which later became adapted by all modern armies.

the word for pistol and howitzer originate from this time (Czech pistala – whistle, houfnice)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

That was pretty great..but I like others who commented, I believe they left out one of the most epic “defenestration” scenes of all time:

The Lion running through the great green hall and through the great green glass in THE WIZARD OF OZ!!

By: Frenetic

Frenetic — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ones that I either missed, or they weren't in there: The Matrix, when Trinity dives through a window while being chased by the cops and Agents in the beginning of the movie. Scott Pilgrim vs The World, when he jumps out the apartment window to avoid Knives. The Dark Knight when Batman goes into the Chinese skyscraper to kidnap Lau. Hellboy, when the monster tosses him out of the museum. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back when Luke gets pushed out the window while fighting Darth Vader. Wanted, when that guy jumps out the window in super slow-mo. And the Firefly episode "The Train Job" has defenestration through a holographic window! I could go on...

By: StridentLobster

StridentLobster — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

As Thomas Pynchon helpfully pointed out, if the window is closed, and the object exiting via the fenetre is breaking the glass, we’re talking about transfenestration.

By: Keneke

Keneke — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I got numb at the 2 minute mark.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The first two scenes that came to my mind that I hoped were in this (that weren’t, mind you): Mal and Jayne getting tossed through the holographic bar windows in “Firefly” (as noted above), and Spike getting tossed out of the church window in “Cowboy Bebop”, Session #5, _The Ballad of Fallen Angels_.

Lots of 1st rate clips in there, though, many of which I actually recognized! Anyone happen to know what movie that was with Tim Curry doing the manic laugh and swan dive? (And did I see a Blade Runner snippet in there as well?)

By: ndmlosi

ndmlosi — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I really wanted the compilation to end with Edward Norton’s character in Fight Club fail to break the glass doors with a shopping cart. Would’ve funny.

By: Lumpmoose

Lumpmoose — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Not a movie, but in the spirit of the word, they could have included the Spectacular Spider-Man episode that actually defines “defenestration”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ieCwtbq4ps

By: pato pal ur

pato pal ur — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I like the part where they go through the window.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

self-defenestration (auto-defenestration?) FTW.

ALSO: autodefenestraphilia?