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Firth's Abusive Blow Up at Hunt

posted 15 years ago by kikioreekee-1
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let me get this straight- they were at the ultrasound. firth disappears, maybe just an editing thing, but he is gone. then she tries to have sex with broderick in the car (gross). he leaves his hat.

she then goes to bette and says she "cheated" on firth. we do not see her say ANYTHING to firth.

she then goes to firths house, he sees the hat and goes on an abusive rant more suited for a raging alcoholic, complete with FUs and such.

ok. did anyone find this totally inappropriate? i can only think yet another scene was cut that explained his rage. do filmmakers ever look at this stuff from an audience point of view? cutting the scene that was the catalyst for his psycho rant was A BAD IDEA. and if no scene was cut, then who would want to be with a man who freaks that hard on a damn hat?

i thought the movie was uneven (comedy to drama way too quick) and i thought helen hunt looked like a death stick. i dont care if she doesnt want to look younger. at least gain some damn weight, woman. she looked awful.

No more home school? No more clarinets?

[–] jtheway22 15 years ago

It's been a while since I've seen this film (the dvd has yet to be released here in Britain) but here's what I made of it:

let me get this straight- they were at the ultrasound. firth disappears, maybe just an editing thing, but he is gone.

There's a shot where Firth is in the background talking to the doctor and asks him something before saying he has to leave, although you have to really listen out for him saying it.

she then goes to firths house, he sees the hat and goes on an abusive rant more suited for a raging alcoholic, complete with FUs and such.

ok. did anyone find this totally inappropriate? i can only think yet another scene was cut that explained his rage. do filmmakers ever look at this stuff from an audience point of view? cutting the scene that was the catalyst for his psycho rant was A BAD IDEA. and if no scene was cut, then who would want to be with a man who freaks that hard on a damn hat?

I thought that when Firth finds the hat in the car he recalls that Broderick's character was wearing it when all three of them attended Hunt's appointment and deduced from this that Broderick's character spent time with Hunt's character after Firth had left. But I agree that there could have been something to make it more clear how Firth reached his conclusion.

Throughout the film Firth's character is shown to be prone to having episodes of abgry outbursts so his angry outburst was just in keeping with that.

What I didn't like, personally, was when Hunt was trying to calm him down and said something along the lines of: 'It's possible that what you're saying is what you really want to say to your wife.' I had already worked that out when Firth first started ranting and so it felt a bit like being spoon-fed.

[–] Danusha_Goska 15 years ago

kikioreekee, you are smarter than the illiterates who wrote this slow-class script.

[–] Prelude_in_C_maj 13 years ago

I agree, the psycho rant seemed incredibly extreme, even for a character who had previously displayed a few tense moments, and even for a character who had just found a hat that could indicate all that he drew from it.

I loved Firth's character right up until that vitriol. That kind of verbal assault was way out of proportion and at that point in the movie, I was literally telling my TV screen Helen Hunt "Walk away and never deal with this guy again." It's not on.

Just for the record, I'm female.....at least, last time I checked...

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[–] chicago85 12 years ago

Sometimes when you hook up with a person who had a bad relationship you get the blowback and suspicion that belongs to the first one who bailed out. I'm not saying its right, just that it does and can happen.

[–] MuchToBeGratefulFor 9 years ago

He got angry when she got a phone call from her husband. This was something that her husband did, not her, so Frank's rage seems to be over the fact that she has a husband at all and might still want to work things out.

So then when Frank finds the baseball cap that he knows is the husband's in the back seat, he knows what that means in terms of what SHE chose to do, of course he is going to be angry. Yes, what he said to her was extreme, but that was the point of their talk when they reconciled: they are going to hurt each other (as all couples do.) And yet they still want to be together.

You must be the change you seek in the world. -- Gandhi

[–] Black-Kettle 9 years ago

You are right, they did have him leave with out really explaining why he left. (I think it is safe to assume that he needed to get back to his kids, or he did stay but they drove in different cars.) His rant may have been a little much, but it is understandable. Firth's character originally told Hunt's character that he rather not tell her what he is thinking, but she insisted. The other reason that it is understandable is the fact that she knew his history with his wife; he moved to the USA for his ex-wife only to have her abandon him and their kids for another man. Now here is Hunt's character doing the same think after he declared his love for her. Like Hunt's character said, Firth's character's rant was aimed at both Hunt's character and his ex-wife. It is probably things he didn't have the change to say to his ex-wife.
Now, I would also like to make the claim that it is kind of Firth's fault too for going after a woman so soon after her separation from her husband. especially their situation because the marriage didn't really end because they quit loving eachother; it ended because the guy just did not want to be married any more.

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