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Finally saw for the first time
What happened to Sara Goldfarb?
A couple questions
Was it necessary for...
Fireside reflections near the end
Would Gekko have sold out Bluestar if....
Drinking pilots sent up?
Did Harry inadvertently kill Early?
Ellie's fate
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I just saw it for the first time last week. Watched bits and pieces of it a few more times as it came on my movie channel, and just now finished watching it complete again. I learn more with each viewing. Was glued to my tv the first 2+ hours, and a great watch all the way through.
Yes, first thing I noticed was that the wedding was around a half hour give or take some minutes, but I think it sets everything up, with the wedding going on, and mixing that with showing how Vito runs things, with the various meetings going on during the wedding.
The baptism and juxtaposition with the killings was very gripping and eerie. I thought that was done very well too.
It was poignant, with Vito and his grandson. Kinda got the feeling at the beginning of the scene that something might happen to him and this would be the appropriate place. It was sad, because he was so grandfatherly during this scene, showing his humanity.
I thought it was a great movie, and I can see why it got all the accolades. Wish I didn't wait 42 years to see it haha. And looking very much forward to watching the sequels.
Yea, I've heard only great things about the sequel. I started watching this one at midnight 2 nights ago as that's when it was on one of my movie channels, and got through the first hour and a half, and decided to call it it a night when Michael went away.
Last night I finished it (again starting at midnight to get the same vibe), rewatched the first hour, then skipped to the 2nd half so I could be in bed by 2:30.
Glad I rewatched the first hour. I picked up things I missed the first time, as it usually takes a couple of rewatchings for me to get the gist of things.
Right. I mean, I know they had to kill Early off somehow, and I guess they wanted to make this scene as dramatic as they could, having the phone ring and Early passing his mailbox simultaneously to create tension (which I thought was brilliant). But the way it was presented, I just wondered what it was about the phone ringing that triggered him to suddenly turn around and go to his mailbox lol.
Could he have heard his phone from outside, or was that tension just created for us the viewer, and thus perhaps he didn't actually hear it but suddenly remembered he forgot to get his mail just at that moment.
In any case, I love this movie, it's kind of like almost a whodunnit with lots of tension.
"Go" (1999) has a similar style where it follows different people throughout, and involves drugs, but to a much lesser extent.
I would have liked to see a kind of redemption. How Jenny seemed elusive in a way to Forrest throughout his life, and then the revelation toward the end with him reading the letter and her being close by; that was a shock factor. And then revealing that she had his kid; another shock. One that I would have liked to have seen it end on. So we have that twist to finish on, that would have sufficed for me, considering all the loss that he's been through already. Why compound it even more?
So now he's forced to raise a kid with Jenny. The biggest challenge of his life. The end.
I just thought having her die was unnecessary at this point.
I love this answer. But it seems as if it is not as hard for Forrest as a regular individual. His ability to brush off such tragedies is commendable, but that may be enhanced by his mental deficiency. I'm absolutely not putting Forrest down in any way. But for the "average" person with...how should I say...sharper mental acuities, it would take a toll even to the point of depression. But Forrest's deficiency is actually a gift in some regards. Unfortunately, the vast majority of us are not as blessed in that sense.
I've never read the book, but have seen the movie over a dozen times through the years.
As the way the MOVIE portrays it, I believe Ninny is Idgie. I think a movie can exist along with a book, in the same universe, yet have artistic liberties taken.
As presented in the movie, Ninny knows too much to just be a 3rd party reflecting on what was presumably told to her or only sporadically being present for such incidents.
But what solidifies it (no pun intended actually!), is the bee/honey thing. Getting that honey from the swarms of bees is something very rarely done. To have 2 people in the same family being able to do it seems almost impossible. It would have to take someone special to do that (especially, for someone who didn't do it professionally for a living). Idgie got the honey earlier in the movie and put it in a jar, just like is shown at the end. And we see Ninny's mischevious smile (along with Evelyn's reaction, seemingly to also now know the truth). Idgie somehow did it again (though probably with much fewer bees present this time, or maybe even store or farmer-bought).
I'm not a huge fan of the movie (I do like it though), but that russian roulette scene....I've never laughed harder. The whole scene starting with the insult being taken so ironically seriously, then transitioning into a fun game of Russian roulette....you're just waiting for it to go off. And it does right after he shoots it at his crotch. I could watch this 100 times and crack up uncontrollably each time.
I can't remember laughing more in any film than the Russian roulette scene in this. The whole scene was comedic gold.
Looking back, in the whole series, this was the 1 kill that didn't make sense. There was nothing to gain from this. She wouldn't have called the police; she went back to her phone conversation!
But that aside, I liked it. It added an extra element of creepiness right from the start that sets up the rest of the movie.
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