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I think you are looking too deep into it. It's definitely not intentional. Now that you have told me there is a voice change, I keep hearing it, which is pretty freaky. I watched the movie twice in the theatre with digital surround and I didn't think it was out of place. I don't think it has anything to do with the plot or contains any subtext but that's ...
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There are many discussions of this on the web (Google: "Top Gear" source Nile), but I think the one on Reddit covers the main points solidly. In short, the "Top Gear" team redefined the phrase "source of the Nile" by first redefining "Nile" to include the Mediterranean Sea, thus moving the mouth of the Nile from Egypt to the Strait of Gibraltar. That ...
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I believe it's actually the grandmother saying it in the letter and yeah, it says, "Now it's your time."
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The metaphor is pretty strong: he literally walks on water.
It means he is tremendously blessed, always ending up on the right side of whatever situation he falls into. In a very short time (less than a week?) he goes from homeless pauper to national celebrity and presidential adviser. Lucky in love and whatever he wants to do. All without (apparently) ...
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As for the antagonist, like the person before said; he had had his revenge.
As for the protagonist, it's all in the smile. Only was he a monster when he smiled. The fact that he smiled at the end meant he still knew.
That's my take.
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I don't think so, because the only reason why he killed the wives too in certain scenarios is just because he had to. If jimmy wanted to kill henry and karen it would have been very very easy, he wouldn't have needed karen to walk into a dark alley.
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From [IMDB-Trivia][5]: In Ma-Ma's penthouse there is a Judge's helmet hanging on her wall with a length of gold chain attached to it, a nod to the comic design of Judge Dredd where the gold chain would link the badge to the uniform collar
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That whole wall seems to be an imitation of judge's gear. Helmet, jacket, assortment of weapons. You'll remember the movie starts with Dredd putting on his gear.
The imagery hints that Ma-Ma is no different from the judges (a running theme in the movie) and given that judges aren't even around most of the time she's a more legitimate authority. The clown ...
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You should pay more attention! :-P
John Doe explains each of the sins he's done up until now in the car: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS4EJGh9mIg#t=0m30s
(PRIDE: The model is given a choice after having her face mutilated. Phone an ambulance or take an overdose. Her pride makes her take an overdose.)
He has two left by that time, Envy and Pride.
ENVY: ...
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English Bob alludes to the fact that Little Bill was a drunkard and (by implication) an outlaw. They definitely crossed paths before but it is not indicated whether it was adversarial. Little Bill refers to Bob and himself as rare examples of "dangerous men" - men who can remain cool under pressure and kill without hesitation or remorse. These two and ...
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i think she says "now its your time"
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This scene is illustrating the Buck "Rogers" Compton is shell-shocked. This is now know as PTSD Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Since I don't know Compton personally, I can only guess that his trauma relates to his experiences from D-Day through Carentan. This scene to me is meant to convey that the cost of war isn't measured in dollars. It also conveys that ...
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I'm not sure exactly what she says, but in the post credits scene, her adoptive parents come to visit. As they knock on the door, her "mother" tells her "father" to say he loves Heather. He replies by saying that for that kind of money, he almost does. Then they hear a weird noise as Leather-face opens the door wielding a chainsaw at them. So basically she ...
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Roger Ebert made the following two comments. This is from his original review:
I loved the moment near the end when Bob runs after Charlotte and says something in her ear, and we're not allowed to hear it.
We shouldn't be allowed to hear it. It's between them, and by this point in the movie, they've become real enough to deserve their privacy.
This ...
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The Painting is Christina's World by the American painter Andrew Wyeth.
I think it is supposed to be one of the works of art saved by the survivors, Why Julia had it at the end (I think Jack put it in her sleep capsule, but can't recall 100%) is that Julia said it reminded her of home.
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It appears to set up their relationship in the film. I haven't watched the film in a very long while, so I looked at the Wikipedia article that lists and explains the characters and their relationships, and it appears to confirm it.
It is most likely a flashback seeing as their relationship exists in the film and is not just a fantasy.
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I always had the sense, particularly from Bill Zehme's wonderful book on Andy ("Lost in the Funhouse") that even if Richards was in on it, like much of Kaufman's antics, being in on it never meant you truly knew what to expect.
In that book, Richards is quoted as saying:
He just shut down and sat there. And I could just feel that he was just gonna' keep ...
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Melanie Chartoff confirms Richard's complicity -- among others -- in this piece.
http://www.aish.com/j/f/48954246.html
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If I remember correctly from the novel the computer system managing the park were designed to count the number of animals of each type in the park, and to report if that number ever dropped unexpectedly (presumably denoting an escape).
At one point in the novel I believe Dr. Malcolm asks them to run a scan for more animals than expected rather than less. ...
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There are actually six scenes/flashes where we see Brad Pitt before The Narrator meets him on the plane. A list of them has been compiled here.
The reasoning behind this is covered well in an IMDb FAQ:
As astute viewers will have observed, Tyler Durden appears in the film six times prior to the scene where The Narrator meets him on the plane. Four of ...
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A model for destruction?
It is entirely possible that in the Narrator's lucid state, he was scanning the crowd subconsciously, looking for the image that would become Tyler Durden. Peering upon person to person to find the right image that would become his 'perfect' personality, the basis for his rebirth, the basis of What a man is supposed to look like.
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