I agree with Peter Morris, although he made a small mistake. The exact quote from the movie is “death to the eternal enemy of Oceania”. The enemy is not named in that clip but it must be Eastasia.
I don’t know what you mean about the novel, because in it the ally changes from Eastasia to Eurasia. Here’s the passage from part 2, ch. 9:
I saw Gangs of New York many years ago when it was first made. But it wasn’t until I recently re-watched it that I realized the fight scene in Anchorman 2 was parodying it. (Even down to having Liam Neeson fighting with John C. Reilly at his side.)
The song “Memphis, Tennessee” is not about a guy trying to get in touch with his girlfriend, but his daughter.
To add to my confusion… in ‘67, 68, 69’ ‘Shazzan’ was a mighty TV cartoon genie, summoned by a couple of kids with a magic ring which forms the word "Shazzan’ when it’s parts are joined. With a script that makes it look like “Shazzam” Then in '76, ‘Shazam’ the (captain marvel) TV series. Then in 1996, “Kazam”, another genie move… and at around the same time, ‘Shazaam’, the lost ‘Sinbad’ genie movie that everyone remembers but no-one has ever found…
So when my kid asks me if I know the character “Shazam”…
There was also a 1960 Japanese animated movie about a monkey with magic powers. It was released as Alakazam the Great in America. I remember seeing it when I was a kid.
Just tell your kids it’s a Gomer Pyle reference.
When Captain Marvel ceased being published in the US, British publishers decided to continue the character under the name Marvelman, later changing the name to Miracleman. Honestly the comics were really bad and probably nobody would remember the character at all if Alan Moore hadn’t got hold of him.
I had watched Blazing Saddles dozens of times when I finally understood the punchline of one of Harvey Korman’s more manic jokes:
For years, I never understood the last item on the list. I didn’t think about it too hard; I just thought it was some sort of primal scream. Only when I watched it with subtitles on did I understand that Hedley Lamar’s apex predators were…
Methodists!
Having been raised in the notoriously mild-mannered faith, I had a darn good laugh over a line I’d missed for the better part of 30 years.
I know Chuck Berry was a perv but you thought his girlfriend was 6 years old? The song is meant to misdirect you as to who he is talking about but the last verse is pretty clear.
I always liked the phrase “hurry-home drops.”
Until very recently I thought Francis Bacon, the philosopher/statesman, was also the great Painter, Francis Bacon. And Beckett too, was he a playwright and also an archbishop? ：ｐ
And a time-travelling physicist.
To be fair, he did have like 6 doctorates.
I have often confused the 16th century English philosopher Francis Bacon with the 13th century alchemist/philosopher Roger Bacon. (Neither one of them can compare to Kevin Bacon though. Or Oscar Meyer bacon. MMM. Bacon!!!)
Yeah. The only reason a father would have for getting in touch with his young daughter living with his estranged wife/girlfriend is to get into the moppet’s pants. Even today that would not be my default assumption; never mind fifty years ago. When you add the fact that Marie called him first you have to wonder where the mind of the ‘accuser’ is.
I also love CB’s way of painting word pictures in Nadine’s [I was] “campaign shouting like a Southern Diplomat” you have an exact image in your mind.
Hey, those Methodists will set you up with a covered-dish supper that will have you begging for mercy.
Considering that this thread is about “Obvious things” people have missed, I’d think it more likely that the poster had just missed, or mis-heard, the last verse, and as such, took the rest of the song at face value, having missed the twist ending.
Sometimes I’m smart enough to spot foreshadowing. Sometimes I’m only smart enough to spot foreshadowing on second read/view. And sometimes I must have read Pratchett’s* Men At Arms* a good dozen times before finally twigging that Vimes’ first thought during his visit to the scene of the crime, “[it couldn’t have been a burglary because]you’d have to be a fool to steal from the Assassins” is actually the solution to the mystery. Clever PTerry…
Well it didn’t take a million times, but after watching Weezer’s version of Toto’s Africa, featuring Weird Al Yancovic on Youtube, I wondered what the hell it had to do with Weird Al?
After the second viewing, I thought maybe the keyboard player was him. Why I didn’t recognize Al’s accordian the first time…:smack:?
Did you notice the similar line in Wyrd Sisters?
She caught sight of the mirror over the mantelpiece and looked down at the crown. It was tempting. It was practically begging her to try it for size. Well, and why not? She made sure that the others weren’t around and then, in one movement, whipped off her hat and placed the crown on her head.
It seemed to fit. Granny drew herself up proudly, and waved a hand imperiously in the general direction of the hearth.
‘Jolly well do this,’ she said. She beckoned arrogantly at the grandfather clock. ‘Chop his head off, what ho,’ she commanded. She smiled grimly.
And froze as she heard the screams, and the thunder of horses, and the deadly whisper of arrows and the damp, solid sound of spears in flesh. Charge after charge echoed across her skull. Sword met shield, or sword, or bone -relentlessly. Years streamed across her mind in the space of a second. There were times when she lay among the dead, or hanging from the branch of a tree; but always there were hands that would pick her up again, and place her on a velvet cushion . . .
Granny very carefully lifted the crown off her head – it was an effort, it didn’t like it much – and laid it on the table.
‘So that’s being a king for you, is it?’ she said softly. ‘I wonder why they all want the job?’
‘Do you take sugar?’ said Magrat, behind her.
‘You’d have to be a born fool to be a king,’ said Granny.
Hah ! No, I didn’t twig that one either - but in my defence it’s been a long, long while since I’ve read Wyrd Sisters. It always felt like a ton of stuff in that book sails right over my head because I don’t know shit about Shakespeare or Macbeth (I only ever read Anthony & Cleopatra).
I saw 2001: A Space Odyssey again in (digital) IMAX a few weeks ago (I’ve probably seen it in a theater at least a dozen times, and most of those were in 70mm), and was wondering, as I have before, about the soccer-ball-like markings on the side of the Discovery’s EVA pods. All of a sudden, I realized that the circular openings are maneuvering thruster nozzles and the black wedges next to them are some kind of protective material to prevent damage to the exterior surface of the pod. The design seems very elegant: up, down, fore, aft, and out on each side (left and right) allows maneuvering in any direction with the right combination of thrusters.
One reason I may never have figured it out before is that we never see any exhaust from the thrusters: the pods just mysteriously move around. I assume the film’s science advisers said that the exhaust would be invisible, although ISTM that we have seen visible exhaust from some thrusters of actual spacecraft. Much would depend on the lighting and the nature of the thruster, I suppose.