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" What makes a great party scene? It&amp;#039;s not just a great scene in the middle of a party, like in Goodfellas and Boogie Nights. A &amp;quot;party scene&amp;quot; needs to capture the feeling of a party, much like a hangout movie makes us feel like we&amp;#039;re just dropping in on the lives of its characters. There&amp;#039;s an art to it. In the amusing new Amazon pilot The Cosmopolitans from writer/director Whit Stillman, which you can watch now for free, Adam Brody plays a buffoonish American in Paris desperately trying to fit in (&amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re Parisians!&amp;quot; he says repeatedly). At the end of the pilot, he and his friends end up at a posh party where one guy almost gets the number of an attractive woman and Chloe Sevigny dismisses the group of men by saying, &amp;quot;&amp;#039;Loser&amp;#039; is kind of an ugly word...&amp;quot; Stillman is a master of the party scene boiling over with passions and booze and concisely worded insults. In honor of his latest achievement, here are some of the finest parties on film and TV, by which we mean parties you might&amp;#039;ve actually wanted to attend at some point in your life (as opposed to whatever was happening in Spring Breakers). Superbad  As attracted as high-school boys are to girls, they are even more terrified of them. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg know this well. Can&amp;#039;t Hardly Wait A movie-long party full of anticipation, and finally release. Even a Jnco jean-wearing Seth Green can find the woman of his dreams, locked in a bathroom. Clueless The better version of the time you first smoked weed. House Party This might be the longest dance-off in the history of cinema, and it deserves every second. This is just about everything that was great about the &amp;#039;90s. PCU With all due respect to Animal House and Revenge of the Nerds, PCU more accurately represents the elation of a college kegger where everyone seems to congregate and all rules are off. Things never go as planned, the beer is warm, and there is always &amp;quot;naked guy.&amp;quot; All About Eve &amp;quot;The general atmosphere is very Macbeth-ish.&amp;quot; Backstabbing creative-types who came before Woody Allen&amp;#039;s reference-a-thons, and who seem a lot more fun. Metropolitan      As argued above, no one is better than Whit Stillman at dramatizing the tensions at the kind of party where everyone is supposed to have fun, but is really trying to one-up each other with witty remarks. That&amp;#039;s truest of all in his first film, Metropolitan. Girls Crack smoking has never looked so... white? For better or worse, Brooklyn will never live down this party scene. Boogie Nights  Okay, to be fair, there is one party in this movie we all wish we had been at. Workaholics   Workaholics Get More: Comedy Central,Funny Videos,Funny TV Shows   The best Workaholics episodes are the ones in which the main guys aren&amp;#039;t having any of the fun. In this one, their house is highjacked by high-school kids who position a paintball sniper on their roof. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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