I'm looking for help with one of the references in the DVD commentary. It occurs in the scene before Ruth has her miscarriage as Burt Reynolds leads the anti-abortion protest from the side of the road. Laura Dern asks if she should comment on something coming up in the movie, then pulls back as the other commentators demur to follow up. It's undoubtedly nothing, but it piqued my curiosity.
shareYeah, I wondered about this as well. Something "painful" to watch, according to the comments.
share[deleted]
Look closely at the shot. There's a woman who's breast feeding her child. Hope that helps:-)
shareI'm still not getting it.
Though it looks like posts were modded/deleted, could someone spell it out?
Looks like we lost the person who made the OP, which is a shame as this is interesting! I own this move and it's one of my favorites. I've listened to the commentary before but never really investigated this issue. I just watched/listened to what's being referred to. I disagree w/ the open post's assertion that it's "definitely nothing." Sounds to me like just the opposite. When they say "There it is," (Dern also says, 'So painful' in reference to 'it,' but laughing it off) my first assumption was that there was something in the shot that shouldn't be there (i.e.: someone pissed themselves, an extra waving an inappropriate sign they'd snuck onto the set, etc...), for whatever reason, and it slipped by them in editing and made it out to the theaters and onto the DVD. But I watched it through about 20 times (the shot in question is 'bout a couple seconds...) and could absolutely find nothing that anyone would notice unless it was some way inside joke. My second thought, when i couldn't see anything, was that maybe what happened occurred in the audio and they fixed it in post. Like maybe Reynolds said something into the bullhorn that was... I dunno. *beep* up or somehow way out there or something and they had to ADR something over it later. In other words - I have no *beep* idea. But something obviously is up at that moment. I did some googling as well and could only find one other instance of this being discussed on the internets: another forum where it's brought up the same way it was here and nobody responded. And I'm an excellent googler.
Mystery of cinema! I gotta call Dern...
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."