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This Shot Is Brilliant

This Shot Is Brilliant

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Updated May 23, 2019 at 04:57AM EDT by andcallmeshirley.

Added May 20, 2019 at 04:40PM EDT by Adam.

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This Shot Is Brilliant is a copypasta based off a tweet by a Twitter user praising a shot from the Game of Thrones finale in which the dragon Drogon appears and spreads its wings behind Daenerys Targaryen, making it briefly appear as though the wings are hers. Twitter users took the text of the tweet and added humorous images.

Origin

On May 20th, 2019, following the Game of Thrones finale, Twitter user @jhill1191[1] tweeted in praise a shot in which Drogon's wings appear behind Daenerys Targaryen, "This shot is brilliant and should be shown in any film study class #GameofThrones." The tweet gained over 4,400 retweets and 19,000 likes (shown below).





original tweet praising Game of Thrones shot of Daenerys appearing to have dragon wings

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Twitter users responded to the tweet by arguing it was not as impressive a shot as the tweet made it out to be. User @devinvaldivia[2] tweeted the shot was like "the Big Mac of symbolism" (shown below, left). User @mackenzynj[3] sarcastically tweeted "woah, it’s almost like….she’s the dragon," gaining over 690 likes (shown below, middle). User @haremetal1[4] joked "It took 16 months to get that shot because dragons don't normally do that" (shown below, right).


tweet saying Daenerys dragon wings shot is cliche tweet mocking the shot showing Daenerys appear to have dragon wings tweet mocking the shot of Daenerys appearing to have dragon wings

The tweet became a popular copypasta in the days after it was posted as people added humorous images to the text. For example, user @responsiblerob[5] posted a still from Spy Kids with the text, gaining over 1,000 retweets and 5,100 likes (shown below, left). User @Papapishu[6] tweeted the joke using a still from Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, gaining over 4,200 retweets and 28,000 likes (shown below, right). Jokes were covered by The AV Club.[7]


This Shot is Brilliant tweet with still from Spy Kids This Shot is Brilliant tweet with still showing Ace Ventura being birthed by a rhino

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Patreon.com/karengeier Lil P Φ Following @karengeier This shot is beautiful and should be taught in any film studies class. 2:19 PM -20 May 2019 Michael Brown Follow @lmMichaelBrown This shot is beautiful and should be taught in any film studies class. 2:42 PM - 20 May 2019 hikikomori povich Follow @SarahSahim This shot is beautiful and should be taught in any film studies class. 2:00 PM - 20 May 2019 Follow @MajieSkram This shot is beautiful and should be taught in any film studies class 4:49 PM- 20 May 2019 juulia roberts Follow @parkermon_go this shot is beautiful and should be taught in any film studies class 4:24 PM-20 May 2019 aly (offline) @Alyfacee Follow This shot is beautiful and should be taught irn any film studies class 12:58 PM- 20 May 2019

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External References

[1] Twitter – @Jhill1191

[2] Twitter – @devinvaldivia

[3] Twitter – @mackenzynj

[4] Twitter – @haremetal1

[5] Twitter – @responsiblerob

[6] Twitter – @Papapishu

[7] AV Club – A memorable Game Of Thrones shot somehow spawned a memetic journey into cinematic hell

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