Around 10 minutes into the movie when Buck wakes up and uses the clapper, every light in the apartment building turns on, the Chicago Cubs sign lights up, and car alarms start going off. I must have watched this movie 30 times and I never noticed it until now. Its a very short scene, less then two seconds long.
What gives?
bad wiring in the building? :)
"He must've thought it was white boy day. It ain't white boy day, is it?"
Bad wiring in the building caused the stadium across the street to light up and all the car alarms to go off?!
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This needs a spot on the Goofs page then.
It makes zero sense.
It's called a hyperbole. It's part of the game of viewing, just like Chanice kicking against the door wouldn't have sent Buck flying several feet in real life.
You may cross-examine.
Hyperbole, as I understand it, is used in writing and speech. For example, "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse".
Regarding the door to the face scene, He doesn't go flying, he falls back in slow motion with sound effects. I have been hit with one of those old swinging kitchen doors moving slowly, not booted really hard into my face that was 2 inches away, just a normal opening. I fell backward too. A possible slight exaggeration of the fall with tweety bird sound FX is grounded in reality, somewhat, unlike the clapper scene.
It's a Greek word derived from the verb "hyperballein" which means "shooting too far". I consider a malfunctioning clapper switching on the lights on a building on the other side of the street and setting somebody's car alarm of…an example of a far shot.
You may cross-examine.
I accidentally posted that before I was finished and you responded right before I edited it. Sorry.
I see what you are saying, but it is rather odd.
I consider a malfunctioning clapper switching on the lights on a building on the other side of the street and setting somebody's car alarm
Did John Hughes do similar things in other movies? I can't recall any other examples of extreme disregard for reality.
Ah yes, Home Alone. How could I forget?
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Don't forget John Hughes':
The Breakfast Club- Andrew screams & breaks a glass door. Yeah right.
A girl (Allison) who had greasy hair through an entire movie suddenly doesn't.
And where did her new great wardrobe come from?
Sixteen Candles- The whole party at Jake's house. Really, Jake could fix up that wrecked house by himself?
"I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus."
"Didn't he discover America?"
"Penfold, shush."
I think the joke was that The Clapper was so popular at the time that Buck clapping in the middle of the night (when it's very quiet) to turn on his lights also turned on all the other lights around his apartment because they were all hooked up to Clappers, too. The Wrigley Field marquee and the car alarm being activated by a Clapper just added some absurdity to the joke.
shareThat's it, LCAWC. It's a Clapper joke, which was relevant at the time.
"Clap on! Clap off! The Clapper!" I still remember those commercials as a kid. I remember so many people getting them, though thankfully my family didn't. You never realized how annoying it could be until you have some idiot clapping nonstop just to make the lights come on & off.
There's a lady I know...If I didn't know her, she'd be the lady...I didn't know.
I think the joke was that The Clapper was so popular at the time that Buck clapping in the middle of the night (when it's very quiet) to turn on his lights also turned on all the other lights around his apartment because they were all hooked up to Clappers, too. The Wrigley Field marquee and the car alarm being activated by a Clapper just added some absurdity to the joke.
Oy vey! The building had bad wireing, all the lights went on! The stadium was right next to the building with bad wireing and their cables could well have intercepted, thus it went on too! It's all just an allusion to what a $hitty area of town Buck lives in. All those lights coming on at 2:00 am startled some homeless person on the sidewalk and they grabbed at their chest and leaned against a car and thus the alarm was set off, or something like that!
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shareAnybody besides me think that this was, in part, an homage to the "Blues Brothers" movie (in which John Candy says "I kind of like the Wrigley Field bit"), when Elwood blues gives 1060 West Addison as his address, and the cops go looking there for Jake and Elwood?
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