I don't know why, but for some reason the non-speaking extra sitting near them at the Padres game really gets on my nerves. Everytime I watch this movie I can't help but notice her over-acting, particularly when they are singing "Take me out to the Ball Game" and when they are eating hot dogs.
Aren't extras supposed to not draw attention to themselves?
I actually think this scene is representative of why some people have major issues with this film, and the same reason for why this film stands out. The extras hamming it up is part of the *FUN* of the film. It's like a screwball "Goodfellas." There are little touches all over the film that let you know you are watchiing a movie, it doesn't pretend to be a big budget film, or an art-important film, just a nice middle class look at cinema. Like a PG-13 gangster that your kids can look up to. The self-reflexivity of this film is part of what makes it a screwball. More on the baseball scene: the don't even show any shots of a baseball game! They show the score board, and the bleachers. I also love that the scoreboard graphics are the same graphics I remember from early nineties MLB games.
It is a nice, little movie about an ironic gangster in suburbia circa 1990.
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I think you're reaching a little. That they show none of the game and only a small section of the bleachers was most likely because of the low budget.
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Eight years later, but that isn't it. They could have used any stock Padres footage, they wouldn't have had to film the scene specifically.
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