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# This Supercut of Movie Phone Calls Is The Best Game of Telephone Ever

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## Melissa Locker


Sep 17, 2015 2:54 PM UTC

by 

[Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/)


## Melissa Locker


Sep 17, 2015 2:54 PM UTC

There are certain tropes in movies that never make much of an impression until some Internet genius cuts and pastes a bunch of them together into one great supercut. Take for example the on-screen phone call. It rarely warrants a second thought as a stand-alone moment in a film, but when [Burger Fiction](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXZQA0vdUY4ZRzEZ5TFKdNA) puts them all together it plays like the best game of telephone ever.

From Drew Barrymore answering the phone in the opening moments of _Scream_ to Harrison Ford as the president desperately calling for assistance in _Air Force One_ or _Napoleon Dynamite_ simply wanting a Chapstick delivery they are all connected via the telephone. In the supercut the phone calls blend together almost seamlessly with Michael Douglas in _Wall Street_ calling an unfortunate soul trapped in Jigsaw’s basement of horrors in _Saw_ who demands to know who he is talking to (it’s George Clooney in _One Fine Day_!)

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