And of course, if he actually got attacked by the Aliens, what good would a pistol do him? He might be able to take one down, if he managed to put it down far enough away so that the acid blood didn’t just melt him anyways. If he got attacked by more? Or got attacked by them in the pipe? The gun wouldn’t do him any good anyways, so it’d just be a useless thing to carry with him.
It’s been a long time since I read the book, but I think this bit with the glasses is taken straight from the book, not added by the movie-makers.
In Singin’ in the Rain, during “Good Morning”, the trio don their raingear for a brief portion of the dance. Donald O’Connor and Debbie Reynolds are wearing each other’s rainhats.
I re-watched GhostBusters this evening, and for the first time realized: The groceries that Dana Barrett is unloading on the counter include a bag of Stay-puft marshmallows. And they didn’t melt when the eggs began to cook.
Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead are FULL of these.
Hot Fuzz in particular has some that I would have never noticed without director commentary but I did see quite a few.
One example, at the country police station there are a set of twins that manage the front desk. The one on the night shift is clean cut and the day shift is a slob. However, when you see them they are reading books, as it isn’t very busy at this police station. The books are are by the same author but one is reading a book written under the authors pen name and the other the author’s real name.
At one point the detectives comment that everyone in town was the lawyer’s client, should we go through the phone book? Yeah, should we start with Aaron A. Aaronson?
Later he meets Aaron A Aaronson.
They also say that in the country, everyone and their mum has a gun.
Like who?
Farmers.
And?
Farmers mums.
The first people he fights in the final battle are an old farmer and the man’s aged mother comes out shooting at him. (He kicks her in the face)
What I liked was that there was a statue of a dinosaur in front of the school. A statue of an extinct species, just like humans were about to become.
I noticed this, too, but I couldn’t figure out why he was always eating. Was there a point to this?
So they could have the punchline with his heartburn at the end?
Maybe just to show that the guy ate all the time? Not every quality a person has ever becomes particularly important.
Maybe it’s just me, but I got the impression that Rusty and Saul were possibly related, perhaps even father & son.
The man who gives David and Jack a ride at the beginning of An American werewolf in London is the werewolf who attacks them later in the movie. Lot of people don’t notice that.
The costume designer for GWTW was world class. He or she (not sure which it was) made umpteen different versions of some of the clothes, particularly the flowered-print dress Scarlett wears in late-Atlanta through wartorn Tara era, each with some more decay and patches; the same was done with Gerald and Mammy’s clothing- the first time you see their outfits they’re starched and clean and later you see the same shirt or apron ragged and nasty.
One from that movie I always loved is Prissy packing the trunks to refugee from Atlanta. She’s putting in some just bizarre handfulls of things and the good china is in the top of the trunk then she slams it down and you hear the plates breaking. It’s exactly what somebody who is panicked in the first place and doesn’t give a damn about any of this stuff (because it’s not her’s and she can’t stand the owner anyway) in the second.
Another touch are the parrots on the terrace of their post-war mansion seen while Scarlett is recovering from her miscarriage. They’re pretty and colorful and nobody is taking any notice of them- they’re just there, like the rest of the house, for ostentation.
Towards the beginning of The Hudsucker Proxy as Hudsucker (Charles Durning) is falling from the top of a skyscraper he takes off his glasses, wipes a bug off of them, and puts them back on just in time to go SPLAT. It was an improv on the part of Charles Durning while he was suspended in a harness in front of the green screen and that left it in- it’s only a couple of seconds of screentime but it’s brilliant.
Something else kinda funny about the Hudsucker Proxy: The entire college battlecry/chant/whatevertheheckthatwas that Tim Robbins and the secretary/reporter do is rather bizzare and funny (and, well, kinda what you expect from a college. Even nowadays alumni from the same school will throw out stuff like that, though probably not nearly as involved…)
Anyhow, the comedy seems to come from the fact that the reporter lady is stumbling through it because she doesn’t know it (since her whole backstory is a lie to get her close to the main character), but her looking so confused wasn’t her acting. Tim Robbins ad-libbed the entire cheer and she was just kinda trying to go along with it for the scene.
Another nice little detail in that film… later on, another guy tries to replicate Wearing Hudsucker by jumping through the window, only to bounce off the glass and get laid out on the office floor. Actual skyscraper glass is about that strong because you don’t want windows breaking 50-100+ feet above a crowded city street. The stuff is thick and pretty solid.
Not counting the mezzanine.
What’s interesting is that the pistol in question- a Webley Mk VI revolver- was the standard pistol of British/Empire officers in WWI, but Lawrence himself was not known to have carried one. He had a number of sidearms; notably a Colt Peacemaker, a Mauser C96, and an M1911, but not a Webley.
Still an outstanding film, though. 
I was a f’n moron the first time I watched it, but I still think the fact that Julie Christie plays both the wife and potential temptress of Montag in the film version of Fahrenheit 451 is a neat touch. The characters really don’t look the same to me; I guess I’m like Steve Ditko-- give a woman a new hair-do, and voila, she’s a different person.
It also took me a few years to realize that the spoken credits at the opening were meant to fit into the same no-text universe.
Hey, I saw it first as a kid, so I think I have a good reason to be a moron regarding the movie’s really obvious subtexts.
I think this is covered on the directors commentry.
(From memory)
Brad did some research with some real life con artists, one of whom said he never knew when he could be rumbled and have to go to ground. He ate when he could as he may have to lie low for a day or two.
Makes sense to me.
Hmm, I don’t do that. 1) it’s strictly speaking illegal here and 2) my car heats up pretty quickly… cold weather specs and all that.
The only reason I’d start the car first is if it was cold enough that I’d be unsure of it starting at all (so I’d know not to bother with the windows)… or if it’s so cold that I’ll want to get into someplace warm in a hurry… you know, -40 and below.