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Herman’s surrounded by people – children, even! – who are talking and relaxing and having a good time, while he slowly sinks to the bottom of the pool, alone with his misery. It’s the contrast between expectations and reality that’s striking here. Who hasn’t felt like lobbing a few golf balls into a swimming pool from time to time, eh? Bill Murray’s Herman listlessly tossing balls into the pool is a weirdly melancholic sight, which doesn’t get any cheerier when he decides to cannonball into the oddly green water, not even bothering to spit out his cigarette first.
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Being pushed into a swimming pool is an annoyance at the best of times, but when it’s as grimy and full of dead things as this one, it’s the last place you’d want to end up. It’s the site of the penultimate showdown between Jennifer (Megan Fox) and her bestie Needy (Amanda Seyfried), and the state of the water works pretty well as a visual representation of their ruined friendship. The swimming pool in Jennifer’s Body is abandoned, overgrown, and full of disgusting brown goop. Especially because it comes at the end of a chain of pratfalls that involved a clown and a birthday party’s worth of kids.
But when Will Ferrell’s character Frank accidentally shoots himself in the neck with a tranquiliser gun and plunges into a nearby swimming pool, well, it’s just funny. Okay, this one’s tougher to justify as having any deep significance. All The Boys Love Mandy Lane has its flaws, but that scene’ll stick with you. It’s a massive gut-punch of a moment, and one that perfectly sets the scene for the rest of the movie. Trying to get her attention is a dangerous game, though, and one poor sod pays the ultimate price for his bravado when he attempts to jump off the roof into the pool… and misses. Right at the beginning of the movie, Mandy (Amber Heard) is persuaded to attend a party with the cool kids, most of whom have only just started to pay attention to her since she became conventionally hot. Pool parties are a staple fixture of teen movies, but you wouldn’t want to go to this one.
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