I don’t know about the first movie that did the slow clap, but Carrie did it at least 10 years before Lucas.

Edit: I’m 100% wrong. Had to look it up.

https://giphy.com/gifs/classic-applause-clapping-2mxA3QHH4aHFm

Also introduced a certain actor to anal sex, apparently..

what's slow clap

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RIP, Corey Haim 😥

> "This wasn't like a one time thing he said in passing. It wasn't like, 'Oh, by the way, this happened.' He went into great detail," a crying Feldman said in the documentary about Haim, who died from pneumonia in 2010. "He told me, 'Charlie bent me over in between two trailers and put Crisco oil on my butt and raped me in broad daylight. Anybody could have walked by, anybody could have seen it.'"

I think the idea is that there's a dramatic moment in the movie where the protagonist achieves their dream or what have you, one person (a friend, mentor, or lover) starts clapping very slowly to break the deafening silence, and then slowly but surely everyone else starts joining in until there's a full minute of roaring applause from the whole crowd, and even a character or two who hated the protagonist earlier in the film will join in.

When she clap them cheeks slow

What the fuck. Charlie Sheen was raping teens?

The slow motion sequence when Carrie gets crowned at the prom? That doesn’t count as a slow clap.

Not the slow clap in the sense we know today

probably not

Because Corey Haim totally made it up? Why would he do that? It certainly wasn't for attention since he didn't tell anyone (except Feldman)

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You’re right. I had to look it up. My childhood in the 80s was spent watching horror movies.

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those dirty pillows

All these guys had serious drug priorities.

Feldman also couldn't decide if Michael Jackson was a pervert.

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.

Feldman made it up or switched names to someone more noticeable, and waited until Haim wasn't around to rebut or retract it.

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.

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

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.

Also introduced me to my lifelong fascination with redheads with brown eyes.