Good one.
Virginia Madsen’s character has a brrain injury, but doesn’t know it yet. Stiers is playing a doctor who’s very good, and he’s trying to diagnose her problem. It’s clear from other things he’s doing that he suspects a brain problem. The difference in grip between the hands is one clue, and a confirming one.
Great flick. But I wouldn’t call this a “subtle” item in the way other things in this thread mean. It’s subtle acting, to be sure, and well done.
I’m not sure this even happened, but I thought I heard it.
In Shakespeare in Love, the title character is called Will, William, William Shakespeare, and Mister Shakespeare. In one scene, Queen Elizabeth calls him Master Shakespeare. Is that a subtle jab at his youth and innocence?
I don’t know if this really fits the point of this thread, but I found the scene where he demonstrates to Hiro that he is a master swordsman amusing, since there is a story that when George Takei was asked whether he knew how to fence for the ST episode “The Naked Time” (where Sulu thinks that he is D’Artagnon) he said that he did…and then took fencing lessons.
Also in BTTF 3, the ravine that Marty crosses at the end of the movie when he returns to 1982 is named “Eastwood Ravine.” Marty, of course, had said that his name was Clint Eastwood in the 1882 time-line.
Actually, that would be 1985, not 1982.
“There’s Something About Mary” – most of the gags are typically very over the top Farrelly humor, so one little scene near the very end I hugely appreciate. Ted (Ben Stiller) gets attacked (several times IIRC) by Mary’s (Cameron Diaz) developmentally disabled brother Warren (whom she dearly loves) for doing anything near his ears. It’s something he’s very sensitive about. Ben gradually bonds with Warren in the movie.
In the climatic scene when Ben sacrifices his own happiness for Mary’s by reuniting her with her one true love, Brett Favre, Ben, on his way out the door, leans over to Warren (who typically has his earphones on listening to music), pulls out one earplug and tells Warren, “I’ll see you around,” to which Warren cheerfully replies, “Okay!” and goes back to listening his music. The significance of this little gesture didn’t become apparent until the very end when Mary chooses Ben over Brett. Afterwards I started going over in my mind for any reasons why she would choose Ben when that scene just popped into my awareness as an “Aha!” moment.
Made me appreciate the Farrelly brothers more as story tellers.
A TV reference and one which took me years to put together…
In an episode of “Comic Strip”, Adrian Edmonson once played a character called Eddie Monsoon. A year or so later, in “Absolutley Fabulous”, Edmonson’s real-life wife, Jennifer Saunders, came to fame playing a character called…Edina Monsoon.
Their powers of subtle mystify me…
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Went to see In The Valley of Elah yesterday, and noticed something, although I’m not quite sure what it means: the father’s hotel room number is 106, and his son’s room number at the army base was C-106. I suppose they were making a parallel between the life of the father and the son, and I’ll give 'em credit, that was way more subtle than most of the rest of the movie.
Really? I totally noticed that in real time.
When I watch the Three Stooges, I don’t expect subtlety. Since this was a Farrelly film, I was expecting to be beat about the head with plot points throughout, and I was, which made it all the easier to not notice in my anticipation of the next gag.
I’ve seen Shrek… *40 times?.. always noticed that that only the Papa Bear and Baby Bear show up at Shrek’s swamp with all the other fairy tale creatures. But I didn’t notice that in the scene in Farquat’s bedroom he has a bearskin rug with a pink bow around the bear’s head. :eek: Learned it from the Director’s Commentary.
*Moonbaby: big Shrek fan
Slight hijack: but that whole scene is totally wrong! Ryan was never at Normandy! He’s running up to a tombstone… for whom? All the guys who saved him, they bought it miles inland at the little French village a week later.
It could be his brother’s, who died during the landing.
The problem I had with Saving Private Ryan was Miller telling Ryan to “earn this” with his dying breath. What had Ryan ever done to deserve that? He had fought during the war, all of his brothers had been killed, he didn’t ask Miller to come get him, and when he was offered a chance to leave the battle he said he’d stay. And what does Miller do? He lays a burden of guilt on Ryan that we see haunted him the rest of his life.
I don’t know if it was intentional misdirection, but at the beginning of the movie you see the old guy in that cemetary fall to his knees, there’s a closeup of his face, and then we switch to a closeup of Tom Hanks approaching that beach (Omaha?) in 1944. But it wasn’t Tom Hanks, and he old guy couldn’t have remembered the D-Day beach landings.
A friend and I were watching Weird Al Yankovic on MTV once. Yankovic was talking about a parody he had done of Alanis Morissette’s “Ironic” video and he said “Alanis and I were really good friends. We used to go to the movies together.” He said it real casually but I got it right away and started laughing. I had to explain it to my friend - in her first big single, “You Oughta Know”, Morissette sings about some unidentified ex-boyfriend and in one line she says she used to go down on him in the theatre.
Nope, it’s Tom Hanks’ grave. Ryan’s wife even reads the name on it at the end - “Captain John Miller.”
That particular cemetary is not just for guys who died on the beach on D-Day. Guys who died inland days or weeks after D-Day are buried there too. And I think it was intentional misdirection to make you think that the old man was Capt. Miller. Although if you look closely, the old man is wearing a 101st Airborne pin.
I think I noticed it because I was in relationship mode. The friend I saw it with was in the car with me, and looking really curvy. When Ted spoke into Warren’s ear, I was all like “Yeah! Game it!”
It wasn’t until we went to see Titanic that we decided the movie sucked so much that we might as well tongue wrestle.
In Pulp Fiction Vincent and Mia did not win the dance contest. There’s a scene with Bruce Willis where the radio is on and you can hear it announced that the dance trophy was stolen.