Someone PLEASE clarify the ending line!

I know EXACTLY what you're talking about. It sounds to me like Peggy is mimicking Fats' voice...I'll have to watch it again to see exactly what she said.
*update* Okay...I just watched it. She says (in that creepy pseudo-Fats voice)"You may not get this oppor-*bleeping*-tunity tomorrow".

I hope you can see this, because I'm doing it as hard as I possibly can

I know Fats wasn't possessed either, but it seems like he is. For example: Did anyone notice when Fats's eyes moved on their own? It was when Fats was telling Corky to jump around and smile/frown ect. When Corky gets up, Fats's eyes follow him, even though there is no one there to manipulate his levers.

"It's like killing two birds with one stone,except killing five people with one semi automatic"

I just watched this and I felt the last scene was a kind of "twist". My interpretation was based on the whole card trick. "Touching each other's hearts via the power of love". Sap, yes, but a major theme- the wooden heart is a bash over the metaphorical dome. Touching hearts...Just like between Fats and AHop. Their hearts were one in the same, eye to eye, AKA schizo. Or was it? This Doppleganger-ed kind of relationship started to happen between Peg and Ahop, forcing a kind of tug of war, or so it appears. She makes references to "If I'm the prize, then you are the winner." He's the winner either way, my friends.

Peg and Fats are in cahoots.

I thought that last line was some kind of allusion to the fact that Peggy was behind it all... had seen Ahop on TV getting famous and all that, while she sat home eating ice cream and touching herself when The Duke was out hunting buffalo. And she pulled some kind of voodoo curse on his doll, or maybe it was always cursed.... I mean maybe she gave him the wood (I mean, she obviously gave him wood, but ya know...) He NEVER talked crazy with his schizo doll until he arrived at the lake- at least on screen- right? She had his wooden heart all along, like a Siren on the shore of his hometown lake.... and when she was done and finished with Duke she called him back via her voodoo doll and afflicted him with her love potion, sending him into a love-driven craze. Time to choose between the chick and his career. There is no choice, but an illusion of choice. She's testing him. You notice I used both -llusions in that paragraph...fun fact.

We only see it as "crazy- you've been like this all along- haven't you?" once Mickey comes in and says that. We never thought that until he said, "Put down the doll, Rocko!" I think this is bull. An old cranky man is who has determined how we see this situation. Shut up Mick.

She's just doing what chicks do- drive men nuts for them and their big boobs. She even says it right before the end, "You know us women, I might just change my mind." But it's too late for them both, she lost him by her little Santeria voodoo *beep*

Nugget 1: When he comes to the house, she doesnt even look out the window to see who is there, all you hear is the voice. Cause she already knows who is there. It's her prodigal wooden puppet, returned.

Nugget 2: Her overreaction to the card trick being phony is too hammy. Like she is trying way too hard to convince him that HE DID SOMETHING WRONG. All part of her voodoo spells.

Nugget 3: The history of voodoo has always revolved around CONTROLLING DOLLS, and people in general. Fact. I use Weekend At Bernies 2 as a reference material. If anybody says that AHop ain't a metaphoric doll in tis flick, shoot me in the face.

Nugget 4: Why do we see no "Genesis of the Doll" snippet? Merlin dies, saying "you gotta get pizazz" or some crap like that, next scene he is semi famous with his silly doll. Where did it come from? Did he always have it? In the first scene with Merlin we see a doll in the background, but it ain't Fats. He carved a wooden heart as a child, in some lame flashback. Did he carve a doll too? Maybe Peggy carved it with her talons? Or maybe she sucked the blood from a regular dude, and left nothing but a wooden carcass? She's a succubus.

Of course, my theory loses weight when you consider that his adamant refusal of the physical (physical- not mental!), it was what drove him away. Who knows, maybe he just had horribly bloody embarrassing leaking hemmorhoids.

Of course, I create my own stories in my head cause most movies are just boring as-is. Kind of my own little Neverland where we take balloon rides at dawn and huff paint for breakfast.

Will somebody pick up my wooden heart because it needs sandin'.

And if anybody comes out saying "he's bitter against women" and that I'm reading into that too much, let me say this: Women rule the earth because most of them are the kindest beasts alive. Men are sociopaths. Women: the fem-crazies ruin it hardcore. I dated a few. I'm luckily married to an absolute saint who I torture with late night escapades such as this post. She doesn't deserve a bum like me. I'm just saying, this story is about a succubus and the deeds that a succubus can cause. To come completely full circle, I also think Adrian from Rocky (full circle- both have have Mickey) is the greediest self-righteous wench that the medium of cinematic film has ever seen. "You can't win!" Bite it, Ade.

Fats is definitely alive. I don't know how it could be interpreted any differently after AM's final line.

so i just watched the movie and was wondering the same thing.it seemed weird to me that Peg was so into Corky when he was doing tricks and yelling at her. and she was somehow into that? in the end she said something like Corky im sorry ive changed my mind ill run off with you then "you might not have this oppurtunity tommorrow" in a strange corkylike voice. i have three theories. 1.she was simply pretening to talk like fats.
2.she was also a schizoid which kinda explains why she was so into corky and his weirdness, she is very good at hiding it but
3.fats now lives in her mind

my first thought was number 2 but number 1 just seems more likely. number three i came up with last not likely at all but woud be interesting.

The high pitched voice she was using was supposed to be her mocking Fats, the dummy!

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