FLEXXMAN33 t1_j6jwtg6 wrote on January 30, 2023 at 9:20 PM

Reply to comment by TinyDayDreamer0 in TIL 'Lucas' was the first movie to introduced the slow clap by SaiFromSd

I don't know about what it is in Lucas, but these days it's usually a sarcastic clap meant to show you don't like a performance. On a related note, this is why Eric Clapton is called "slow hand". Apparently audiences would give him a slow clap when he replaced his guitar string on stage.

roflredditwaffle t1_j6mgcx1 wrote on January 31, 2023 at 11:04 AM

Thats not what a slow clap is. The slow clap is when theres a crowd staring at a character in disbelief, or shock, or whatever, and then one person starts clapping slowly. As they increase their clapping speed, the rest of the crowd joins in and usually ends with everyone cheering for the character.

FLEXXMAN33 t1_j6mr2b5 wrote on January 31, 2023 at 1:01 PM

I've seen Citizen Cane and I remember that scene, but is it possible there's more than one occasion to clap slowly?

Buttersaucewac t1_j6n8ilx wrote on January 31, 2023 at 3:15 PM

They are both called a slow clap.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/slow_clap

The version you’re talking about is definitely not introduced by Lucas, it’s in the movie Brubaker years earlier and Citizen Kane decades earlier.