Papillon's Dream from Papillon (1973)

[@eddiequist3088]

this scene haunted me for years

[@oncall21]

Yep same here. I saw this when I was 16. It's like something from Stanley Kubrick when I think about it today.

[@MusicRecordsGuy]

Haunted me for years as a kid too... this and the dream sequence in the chapel from the movie The Exorcist III...

[@scientificdevil4672]

Me too. I think it still does haunt me lol. I must have been 12 years old when it came out and went to see it in the theater. It is still one of the best movies I've ever seen.

[@jackieollij7434]

It still haunts me.

[@gcgangsta8556]

No doubt. Here I am decades later seeking it out….it just freaked me out.

[@Panufo]

Best dream sequence in cinema, being the most like an actual dream. I freak people out just describing this scene.

[@delavalmilker]

Dalton Trumbo's great screenwriting. Steve McQueen's great acting. Who could ask for more?

[@metsot]

No-one.

[@T2005-h5n]

This is scarier than most horror movies today

[@S0lidState]

I thought I was the only one who freaked out on this scene.

[@seizurefrog]

watched papillon for the first time last night and this scene really creeped me out. would've been nightmare fuel for sure if i had seen this as a kid. great film

[@secondgoodoldgreg2807]

This terrified me as a kid. I remember having a nightmare where I was picked up by my friends dad who’d died a few months earlier. When i got in the car and saw him....you can guess what I said!!!

[@christopherjames375]

Sorry .can't understand the questio

[@Lexgnzlz]

"Yooou're deeeaaaad" 💀

[@nikiyen6]

He hesitated before that 6th step to make sure there was really no wall in front of him.

[@whocares_bear]

Strange looking trees, almost looks like the roots are on top

[@davidwebster1449]

I remember me and my dad going to see this film back in September back in 1974 I was nearly fifteen at the time and this scene still sends shivers down my spine my dad wanted so much to see this film as he had previously read the book over some time where he worked so he asked me did I want to go and watch the the film with him I said thanks definitely yes we enjoyed the film and thought the acting was brilliant

[@liveandletlive8264]

What a beutiful and strong scene !! 👍🇭🇷

[@jamuga60]

The look and the smile on his face when he sees his two old friends is just cinema magic I reckon. Just magic.

[@mattm3729]

It is ever-more sad that his only escape is this nether wold of dreams, yet even in his dreams he is held captive by the haunting specter of what his life has become. I'm always gripped by the gentleman with the brown hair & those piercing, lifeless brown eyes . ... They're so haunting.

[@mattm3729]

Also, 1:58, that sort of miserable expression plastered on the face of Steve is precisely the look of my extremely hungover self the moment I wake up in the morning.

[@maurizioferracchiato3265]

What great scene...disturbing, dreamlike, deeply scary....as only the existential and uncoscious issues can be.

[@conductorinblack]

Thanks for posting. After seeing Papillon for the first time on television, this scene was responsible for a couple of childhood nightmares!

[@rickardblane8369]

This movie was so good

[@rosbifle413]

The scariest thing I've ever seen still to this day.

[@uwagajedzietramwaj_]

scarier than any horror movie I have ever seen

[@jeffreywonderly7975]

*spine tingles every time*

[@callumfitzpatrick1989]

What makes him so masculine? He's even like that when he's stick thin. No wonder he was an icon.

[@danbaron9094]

Interesting fact: McQueen drank a lot of beer and ate a lot while filming Papillon, so he actually gained weight. The director and cinematographer were forced to keep giving McQueen larger and larger prison rags/clothes to wear for his scenes so he would look thinner. In contrast, Hoffman was a method actor, so he lost weight during the filming of Papillon to be in character.

[@danbaron9094]

This is the closest thing to an NDE with a visitation by Papillon's friends. McQueen is over the top!

[@marthaperdew]

This scene still creeps me out

[@christopherjamesjames1682]

Its hard to imagine .1 human could do this to another

[@Johnny33330]

I think this is only possible on film

[@MarkFendy-sw7hn]

You're term is completed! If covid ever goes or not! This is how i will think of my term ending! But just do what we akl have to do i guess!

[@Jeff-sp7bg]

What are u talking about

[@robynsegg]

I thought I was the only one who had the s*** 💩scared out of her as a kid by this scene. I see by the comments, I'm not alone. Thank God.

[@willianmateus4887]

Steve McQueen imortality..epic scene..

[@davidfrost2819]

In some shots McQueen reminds me of jimmy Cagney especially when he has grey hair

[@BlaineC1972]

This scene gave me nightmares as a child.

[@PokeLexgnzlz]

"You'reee deeeeead" 💀

[@meowzz_X3]

Dead asf

[@PokeLexgnzlz]

@@meowzz_X3 I don't know if he's saying that to Lariot and Julot or to himself, because in Spain they translated the "you're dead" in singular.

[@decadedamaddimperial]

Beautifully Disturbing Scene .

[@اسماعيلجابر-ض3ي]

ممكن توضيح معنى هذه اللقطة؟

[@davidfrost2819]

Its scary and funny at the same time

[@christopherjames375]

Could nt get much worse total silence.on a starvation diet .no looking in the mirror washing or brushing ya hair.shave .clean ya teeth .shower .cut ya nails .wait 4 it .NO BOG PAPER OOOOUCH X 10 .WET GUEY SHIT HIS SUIT WAS IN TATTERS .HELD TOGETHER WITH BUTTONS ALL THE BACK was ripped .holes in it .no windows .breeze.hugary all the time.no 1 to talk too. Mind games in ya head .no thanks .

[@marycatheri]

freakout fodder, for sure!

[@christopherjames375]

Want exactly 5 star deco

[@Lexgnzlz]

Worst prison I ever saw in a movie.

[@michaelmaxfield3744]

Have you ever eaten a diary page?

[@christopherjames375]

There would be a public out cry if u did that to some 1 s dog 2day .this went on till the late 1940 s

[@philipthomson7460]

Youuuu’rrrre deaaaaaadd! 😄😄

[@madzen112]

Reading the book feels like a guy telling a long story in a bar or a granddad telling a story from his youth. Just sayin'!

[@Otaku155]

How is this not a super dank meme by now???

[@christopherjames375]

I can't imagine .a more brutal regime

[@nikstr9228]

Who where these two? I don’t remember

[@Eire_Go_Deo]

As far as I remember, the young one got shot trying to escape when they first came to Guiana. The second one was the one who cut himself on his knee but died in other circumstances (I forget how)

[@jennifersman7990]

Fidel He was shot during his own escape attempt. Guy that played him was also McQueen’s partner in Bullitt

[@michaelwhalen2442]

The guy on the right is Billy Mumy, who played Will Robinson in Lost in Space.

[@foreignwarren7361]

I saw this when I was 9 and didn't sleep for 9 years....

[@christopherjames375]

I would willingly run it

[@jamesbruno1519]

Bill Mumy!!!

[@garyberg8072]

Danger, Will Robinson, danger!!!

[@hectormonclova7563]

Fish Head, Fish Head himself...

[@GizmoBeach]

You’rrrrrre upsiiiiiide dowwwwwwn… 🙃

[@임완규-k5k]

내가뛰어가보니이곳이아 0:17

[@stevenguegens7047]

This is the most weirdest part of this GREAT movie that lost ME

[@christopherjames375]

This regime should be brought back .with out a shadow of a doubt.

[@임완규-k5k]

퍼 0:24

[@edwardjnarrojr3135]

Is that Greg Abbott and Dan Patrick?

[@christopherjamesjames1682]

It was certainly .a bleak old existence

[@Ryder___893]

What’s the meaning of this scene?

[@jakezywek6852]

It is designed to depict the mind creating extra stimuli because the character has been away from company for so long, also the hope our subconscious has of seeing people who are gone, and the the mind's realization is shown toward the end of the dream.

[@edwardjnarrojr3135]

Typically

[@Whaiesh3827]

Put it on 1.75 speed 😂😂😂

[@christopherjames375]

the solitary confinement regime should be bought back . that would wake up a few people .

[@allengreene9954]

@@marthaperdew Yep put people in a concrete box with barley any water, food, no sunlight, can’t take a bath or even talk🤦🏿🤦🏿🤦🏿🤦🏿 Solitary makes monsters into even worse monsters......