In the scene after Hoffa explodes in anger about how he wants Fitz dead for selling him out there is a transition to a press conference and everyone files out of a Teamsters union hall in Michigan and in the middle of a dreary grey scene there is a Clockwork Orange movie poster that is very out of place. WTF? What is it doing there? Anyone else have any idea? Seems like some kinda corny Kubrick Easter egg.
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I just watched this last night and noticed the Clockwork Orange(1971) poster as well. Besides a possible "shout out" to the great Stanley Kubrick, my guess is that the poster was placed there to give us a sense of the time period, which would have been the early seventies. I don't remember ever seeing ANY dates or years on the bottom of the screen during this movie, so the poster serving as a time setting is my best guess.
I too thought it odd that a movie like that would be advertised near a teamster building
In the commentary track Devito says he asked kubrick for permission ( he was a Kubrick fan)
it DOES show the passage of time.... these guys are in a "different world" now
but it also calls too much attention to itself
The CO poster is there 1) to give you a sense of the year being depicted in that scene 2) to show how much the times had changed over the course of the movie, and 3) to foreshadow what we would soon see, that Hoffa was being released into an environment that he no longer had a place in, things had changed too much.
shareConsidering Hoffa supposedly met his demise in 1975, it would have been a sly wink for them to place a 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' poster there instead, considering both Nicholson and DeVito played in it. That film appears to have been released around 6 months after Hoffa's disappearance, however with the other liberties taken with the truth throughout the story, I think they could have gotten away with it.
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Nice.
shareIt assumed it was there simply to show the viewers that it's around 1971.
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