I had that comic too! It was probably my introduction to Hawaii. During our last visit to Hawaii, I came across a copy in a comic-book store on Kauai. It was in mint condition and selling for something like $25, IIRC. I passed on it, but now I wish I had gone ahead and bought it.
I have been aware for a while of the symbolism of oranges in The Godfather - basically, if you see an orange, someone’s about to die. But it was only just recently that I learned that the Mafia got its start in a citrus-growing region of Italy. Controlling the orange market is how it got going.
Hawaiian music was immensely popular and influential in the US from the 1910s on too.
…but you did get that it was Burns in a fake mustache, right? :dubious:
On the Brown Eyed Girl discussion - this from Wikipedia.
"Originally titled “Brown-Skinned Girl”, Morrison changed it to “Brown Eyed Girl” when he recorded it. Morrison remarked on the original title: “That was just a mistake. It was a kind of Jamaican song. Calypso. It just slipped my mind. I changed the title.”[12] “After we’d recorded it, I looked at the tape box and didn’t even notice that I’d changed the title. I looked at the box where I’d lain it down with my guitar and it said ‘Brown Eyed Girl’ on the tape box. It’s just one of those things that happen.”[13] It has also been stated that the song was about an inter-racial relationship and Morrison changed the title to “make it more palatable to radio stations.”
Did you never tell an aunt/elderly relative how wonderful was the ornament she gave you for Christmas - only to consign it to a remote cupboard when she left?
Judging from the opening shots of the old Five-O series, the 707 was practically Hawaii’s State Bird. 
Carl Giles cartoon, where dad is about to smash the garden gnome that Aunty has given him for Christmas. He’s got the hammer poised, when Aunty looks back in through the door.
Right, which makes my miss(es) even more dubious.
The third movement (“La Paix”) in Haendel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks contains echoes of Liliburlero, the signature tune of the BBC and an often-heard British Army march (reference Barry Lyndon).
Something of a trivia-type spin-off: Liliburlero, with its catchy tune, was long a “marching song” of the Protestant side, in the Protestant-versus-Catholic conflicts in Britain over the past few centuries. It originated, I gather, in one of the episodes in Ireland in the 17th century, during which this long-running wrangle was at shooting-war status; and in which a Protestant victory was gained, in the north of Ireland. The song was made up by the victors, in celebration. Its seemingly-nonsense refrain – Liliburlero, Bullenala – is in fact a slightly-distorted rendering of a phrase in the Irish language meaning “The Lily was triumphant – we won the day”. The Lily concerned, being the Orange-lily flower, a symbol of Northern Irish Protestantism.
OMG! Thank you for this! Can’t believe I never picked up on this during the 1000’s of times I watched this. :smack:
I think I got two in one day.
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Client’s son: Maybe Miss Rilch knows. What was the school that Viktor Krum went to?
Me: Durmstrang.
CS: Durmstrang, right, thank you.
Me, thinking: Durmstrang. Sturm und Drang…OMG. -
Was reading something wherein a teen guy said he did not want to be a carbon copy of his father. Made me think of Denzel Washington’s film debut, Carbon Copy. George Segal finds out he has a teenage son who looks like Denzel Washington. OMG. He’s a copy of his father, except he has, um, extra carbon. Heh.
I have probably seen Madagascar 2 dozens of times, not by choice. But last night when my kid was watching it, in the scene where King Julian thinks he can solve the water shortage by sacrificing someone to the volcano god, he asks for a volunteer and says “perhaps someone who had never experienced love?”.
:smack:This is the FIRST time I realized he was asking for a VIRGIN, in kid movie friendly language.
Not true to the best of my knowledge.
Audi the company pre-dates Auto-Union and comes from a latinised version of the founders name (Horch meaning “listen/hear” in German, Audi mean “listen” in latin)
The acronym above is possibly a “backronym”
I haven’t seen it all that many times(and I don’t know if the thread has already covered this), but a recent re-viewing of Ocean’s 11 (the new one) threw up a large number of plot holes that I had missed before, and like to think that I’m usually good at catching stupidity in movies.
Why the whole story line with the con man Saul trying to get the briefcase into the vault? If you’re going to send in an entire large container with a man stuffed inside it anyway, why not send the plastic explosive in with him, instead of increasing the ways that you can fail, and increasing the ways Benedict can find his way back to you?
What’s this sudden secret path from some generator room that bypasses all security measures and ends up in the elevator? Again, if you know something like that exists, why bother with all the face to face business that lets you get Benedict’s codes? You’re just giving him ways to catch you
They don’t take anything with them when they go into the vault, so where did those bags worth of hooker flyers come from?
Probably flimsy explanations, but here is what I got:
Regarding Saul, they needed him to fake the heart attack to turn everyone’s attention away from the TV’s so they can flip from live to their recording of the vault. This was the best way to get him into the security room - to watch his briefcase.
Danny got into the elevator shaft because Benedict wanted him roughed up in that secret room, but how would Linus get into that room? Yeah, this is a big stretch.
As far as the flier, I think this is a plot hole, although the Swat team (which is actually the rest of the gang) could have taken them down there disguised as SWAT gear/bags.
If they only wanted to draw attention away from the elevator so they could get Linus in without being noticed, that’s all the more reason to not have either the briefcase or Linus, since they could get at least one person into the elevator shaft anyway, and there’s nothing in the plan that requires two people down there, or the briefcase.
The flyers left the building before the SWAT team got there.
Saul and the briefcase were needed anyway for the timing of the heist to work. With Mr. Zerga (Saul) watching on the monitors, Benedict’s men take the cart down right away instead of waiting around. Then he fakes the heart attack as a distraction. (Is that when they switch the video inside the elevator to a recording so they don’t see Linus?)
Besides that, there’s not much room in the cart with Yen. He’s got an oxygen bottle that’s only good for 30 minutes. I suppose they could have just left a hole in the cart somewhere so it wouldn’t be airtight, then carry the explosives instead of the oxygen. They’d still have to make sure that cart wasn’t delayed. Livingston waits until Yen is in place to trigger the rest of the heist.
You mean the one Danny takes to meet Linus in the elevator shaft? They probably needed the security codes anyway. There’s the big vault door that they blow up, but there’s also an outer rotating door. They needed to open that somehow, too.
Yeah, I noticed that one, too. I think Soderbergh even admits it in the director’s commentary.
The thing I noticed (also after several viewings) is about the name inlaid in the floor of the vault; that’s how Benedict is able to figure out that the pictures he was seeing on his monitors were from a duplicate vault. Firstly, Danny and the rest had hacked into the security system. They would have seen the installers doing the work and could have made the same alterations in their phony vault. But really, why would Benedict bother with that. We’re told that this is the most highly guarded, super secret vault they could possible create. The security system rivals that of most nuclear facilities. Absolutely no one is allowed in there except Benedict himself, the most trusted guards whose access codes are changed twice a day, and some guys who did some work on the floor.
As regards Ocean’s Eleven, by the way, practically none of this matters. That’s what’s so fucking awesome about that movie; it’s so much fun just watching them plan it all. By the end, it almost doesn’t matter if they get the money or not.