With the holiday season coming up, you might be dreading the time you'll spend sitting around with family members who make things weird with talk of politics or their private lives. We've covered dysfunctional family dinner scenes already, but what about those times that dinner (or a table scene) is the framing device? It can be so uncomfortable.Which is probably why scenes just like this often make it into films. The table gives characters a chance to rest amid action and perhaps confront each other on common ground, but there are still endless opportunities for conflict, comedy, and surprises.Even though table scenes can be notoriously difficult for staging and coverage when you're on set, trapping characters around a table and watching them squirm never gets old. Here are some of our favorite awkward dinner scenes.The Texas Chain Saw Massacre - YouTube www.youtube.com This whole film is beautiful claustrophobia, but the discomfort is at an all-time high by the time the characters sit down for a creepy dinner. Sally's bound to a chair while the cannibal family mocks her screaming, eventually bringing out Grandpa to suck blood from her finger.Tobe Hooper's dinner scene is legendary for good reason. It was also legendary for being absolutely miserable to shoot. The sequence took 27 consecutive hours to film in oppressive Texas heat, with rotting meat on the table and actors who hadn't washed their costumes in weeks.Guess Who's Coming to Dinner - YouTube www.youtube.com This one's awkward by design. When Joanna brings home...
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