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Title source?

posted 19 years ago by Erich-13
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Was the title "This World, Then the Fireworks" taken from a quote, or was it just a phrase that Jim Thompson came up with himself?

[–] ultradamno 19 years ago

It's my understanding that's it's an original Thompson phrase...

[–] bhoover247 19 years ago

It's an old saying, I've heard it used usually by older people from the south. It usually goes "There's just this world and then the fireworks start". It is usually said by a person who has given up trying to figure out this world's problems and is thinking about life after death.

[–] mail-2775 13 years ago

Great reply, thank you. I should have read this before watching it. I was half distracted wondering what this stupid movie title was about.

[–] ARH 19 years ago

Fireworks refers to Hell. This world, then Hell.

[–] soytown 18 years ago

I'm a huge thompson fan and I just finished reading the transgressors. It's a great book although the ending is a little to sweet for thompson. anyway the phrase "this world then the fireworks" is a very prominiate quote from that book even though the two stories seem to have nothing to do with one another.

Maybe there's more to it than that, but I found it interesting.

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