A prop carousel horse that appears in the upcoming romantic comedy We Live in Time has left the internet in stitches for its wild-eyed appearance.
The A24-produced film follows the ‘unconventional’ love story of a recent divorcée and an on-the-rise chef, played respectively by Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh, over a decade in their lives together.
In one scene, the lovebirds attend a carnival at nighttime and decide to take a spin on a carousel.
One newly-released promo image captures the two characters in a loving embrace on the ride, bathed in the soft light of the fairgrounds – while lingering in the foreground of the still is the oddly gaunt face of a carousel horse looking utterly crazed.
As one Reddit user declared of the prop: ‘If I were an Oscar voter I would give this movie Best Production Design just because of that horse.’
The shocked-looking mustang became an instant meme as social media denizens quickly joined in on the horseplay, transposing the head onto myriad iconic scenes throughout film history.
Among the most popular takes saw the carousel horse dropped into The Godfather, in the infamous scene in which a producer awakes to discover the decapitated head of his prized thoroughbred in his bed.
A second take put the horse in place of the massive shark in Jaws, in the moment it lurches onto the fishing boat piloted by the protagonists trying to hunt it down.
Another variation replaced the T-rex during the car-attack scene in the original Jurassic Park film with our trusty carousel steed.
And a fourth version revisited the climactic moment in The Shining in which Jack is taking an axe to the bathroom door, as his terrified wife screams in horror – but, instead of the blade popping through the broken wood, it is the fiberglass stallion.
