It's National Doughnut Day! Celebrate with the Best Doughnut-Shop Scene Ever
For more than 70 years, America has recognized the first Friday in June as National Doughnut Day. This calls for numerous celebrations, from the offering of free doughnuts at chain and indie retailers nationwide to the corrupted Twitter trending of #donutday. But no such commemoration would truly be complete without a look back at the greatest doughnut-shop scene in the history of cinema.
I give you Buck Swope's ill-fated (or fortuitous?) late-night visit to Miss Donut from Boogie Nights. Needless to say -- we've all seen it a dozen times before -- it's NSFW:
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I'd forgotten how perfectly framed every shot of this film is. And how wickedly perfect the incidental music used throughout is.
"Did--did you do this for the Christmas?"
Best timid ad-lib ever.
I love this scene, but what about the last scene of Buffalo '66? After all the angst and emotionality of that film, there's something so beautiful about him buying some donuts with a big smile because he's found love.
Again, love this scene, but it's such a downer compared to that final Buffalo '66 scene, which is such a joyful scene.
It's not quite in the same league, but Travolta's sugar-dusted Clinton is also memorable.
That's fair, though I actually don't think of this scene as a downer at all. Sure it's violent and virtually everybody dies and Buck steals the money, but it's mostly about the lengths to which we'll go for a new beginning. He has a baby coming soon, and now he has an opportunity to provide what he couldn't draw from conventional means. The way we see him at the end of the film -- cheerful, entrepreneurial, ambitious, independent -- all got its start at Miss Donut.
Yeah, you are right. It's not a downer of a scene. It's just more of a downer in comparison to how that scene in Buffalo 66 feels. But I definitely love love love Boogie Nights. My first time seeing it, actually, was with PT Anderson in attendance (at a special screening of it at the Sundance directors workshop) and so I will always have the fondest memories of meeting the man behind that amazing film after watching it. Totally special.