I think that scene is a shout out to the book fans. If Jack had had time, if not for the fact that there was not a moment to lose, he would have gone ashore and dallied with that girl. And then perhaps felt a little guilty later when he was continuing his serial letter to his wife.
I just noticed via a pc game commercial, that the boss in Office Space wears both braces and a belt!
I just noticed this one, although I’ve seen the film countless times.
I was watching the Peter Bogdanovich-Barbra Streisand-Ryan O’Neal comedy ** What’s Up, Doc?** with MilliCal this weekend. At the beginning, Streisand’s character introduces herself to O’Neal’s in a hotel drugstore. He’s come in (on his fiancee’s marching orders) to get aspirin for a headache. “Get one with buffering,” she says, “It’s easier on the stomache.”
Streisand is smitten with O’Neakl, but can’t budge the proper and very straighforward guy, so she tweaks his rebuff. She picks up a radio as she’s going out, puts it on the counter, and tells the cashier “My husband will pay for it.”
O’Neal comes over with the aspirin and hands it to the cashier. “How much do I owe you?”
“$87.50,” says the clerk.
O’Neal looks at the bottle.
“How much is it without buffering?” This leads to an explanation and further confusion. It’s all great for a quich bit of with that reveals both characters.
So I was surprised later on in the movie, when O’Neal’s fiancee comes upon the crooks who have (mistakenly) taken O’Neal’s bag, beating up on their crony who got the wrong bag. She sees the contents of O’Neal’s bag there on the table and asks them what they’re doing with his bag.
In with the contents is the damned radio from the hotel gift store. He felt compelled to buy it, evidently. I never noticed it before, and it’s not necessary to your understanding of the movie, but it’s cute and hilarious once you notice it.
For all you Pixar fans, I just noticed a quick scene in Cars, when Lighting McQueen and Mac are on the road (during the cheesy “Life is a Highway” song) there’s a lot of quick roadside scenery being flashed before us. One shot is of electrical wires whipping by at 70 MPH. If you look closely, you’ll see the little blue birds from the For The Birds short that I think they put in front of Finding Nemo, along with a short “meep” sound. It’s only in there for a couple frames, so don’t blink.
Okay, if you want to talk dorky, my sister called a particularly dorky guy in the WGT number to my attention.
She tells me that in the 1950s, there was a sort of fad for making comic faces. Like pulling your hair back so far that your eyebrows go up and saying “Mommy, you made my braids too tight!” or sticking a finger horizontally into your mouth and gargling, “Madam, please remove your umbrella.”
Now, watch that last number again, specifically the bit between Danny and Sandy running out of frame and the revamped Greased Lightnin’ driving away. All the extras are dancing in formation, and the guy in the front row on the right of the screen is making all kinds of faces, including the umbrella one.
This may not measure up with some of the others mentioned, but it’s one I just noticed. At the beginning of The Godfather, when Don Corleone is granting favors, one of the people who comes to him is an old baker who asks for help with getting the proper papers for his young assistant to stay in America.
Later, when Michael is is freaking at the hospital because all his father’s guards have been sent away, a young man who identifies himself as Enzo the baker arrives with flowers for the Don. It’s the same guy the Don helped with his papers at the beginning of the film.
He also bakes and presents the cake for Don Michael’s big party in G3.
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In the Big Lebowski, after the first time the Dude meets Samuel Elliot’s character (the Stranger), Elliot walks off in the wrong direction and then turns and exits the right way. Also, when the Dude tries to get in his car at the impound lot after it has been stolen, the officer tells him that he can’t use the driver’s side door and must get in on the other side. Later, when Walter and the Dude go to Larry Sellers’ house (the teen who stole their car), the Dude gets out of the driver’s side door.
I watched Major Payne several times before I realized something about the deaf kid. The part where Payne meets the “troops” for the first time and is establishing his authority with them, the camera pans across the line of boys and you see the deaf one with his eyes closed. For a long time, I’d just thought that he was just bored. But later on, I realized–he was deliberately refusing to listen to Payne! He couldn’t hear, but he could read lips. Him shutting his eyes was essentially the same as one of the others plugging their ears! THAT was the reason that Payne crawled his case so hard even after he learned that the kid was deaf–he understood that the boy had been purposefully ignoring him!
Here I am, nicely reading through a thread, perhaps with a bit to contribute, and WHOA!
That’s me.
When did I write that? Oh yeah, November 2005!!!
Anyway, I was watching Pulp Fiction while home sick the other day, and in one scene with Butch and Fabienne, he’s watching TV while he’s talking to her. I never noticed that her reflection appears on the TV screen during the conversation. She’s dressed in white, and she’s in profile. It’s sort of ghostly, and a nice touch.
Well that explains Charlie Callas.
Just how like how it’s *always *very easy for the protagonist to check-mate?
Probably been noted already, but Lancelot answers back sotto voce “No I’m not!”
Wow. :eek:
Never had that happen to me before. 
Gave the same response, twice, in the same thread. (See post 25). 
I guess that’s one of the reasons against reviving dead threads?
Yeah, it probably doesn’t make sense to nitpick a year+ old post, but in that scene, she says, " Tis a fair court".
I found that part brilliant because somehow the logic of her weighing the same as a duck actually worked and she admits to being a witch.
I also have never heard anyone say “Florida” and something that floats. I believe someone did say “flour” but I’m going to have to go back and look again.
Another one from Pulp Fiction:
When Vincent and Jules are at Jimmy (is that right? Tarantino’s character?)'s house drinking coffee, Jules compliments him on how good it is. Jimmy gets really snippy about how he knows it’s good, he buys it because whenever Bonnie buys coffee she gets shit and he likes the taste of good coffee. Later on, Wolf shows up and asks for his coffee with “lots of cream, lots of sugar.”
I just realized that Jimmy is the kind of coffee snob who likes his coffee black and thinks adding cream and sugar is a sacrilege. The fact that he didn’t say a word to Winston and even made his cup personally, well, that shows how much he respected the man.
I know that other film buffs must know this, but for some reason it only just occurred to me.
I was just watching The Seven Samurai for the jillionth time, and was prepared to steel myself against Toshiro Mifune’s puzzlingly over the top performance, when it hit me:
His initial peculiar simultaneous worship and contempt of the samurai - it’s because he’s a farmer’s son and he has good reason to hate them, yet he wants to be one all the same.
His inexplicable chortling when the samurai first enter the village and all the villagers hide themselves - he knows why and where they’re hiding themselves - he’s a farmer’s son! He knows just what it takes to bring them out of hiding, too.
He ridicules the farmers vigorously for being rubes, and it’s because he doesn’t like himself and is trying to escape bad memories of his farmer’s life by placing himself above them.
Why didn’t I see it before? Now a lot of his scenery-chewing makes a lot more sense.
Yeah, except for the part where she actually sais “…a fair cop”. It’s been over many times, to the point, I believe, that some of the Python boys have weighed in.
-Joe
Trivia: The pistol & bug-sprayer ‘disappear’ because of a cut scene from that point. Just before the flying monkeys attack, Dorothy & co. are attacked by ‘jitter bugs’ - tiny little flea-like creatures that crawl up their legs. In an effort to shake the bugs off, the foursome break out into a jitterbug routine. Both weapons get dropped during the dancing, and they don’t have time to retrieve them before the monkeys appear. (That scene was cut from the final edit of the movie, but an out-take of it appears on the DVD.)
Anyway, L.A Story: Early in the film, Sara (Victoria Tenant) calls her mother in England on speakerphone, and they perform a duet - Sara on tuba, ma on harpsichord. I must have seen this film a dozen times before it struck me that they were performing “Do-Wah-Diddy” by Manfred Mann (a detail that becomes important later on in the film.)
In the climactic scene of Dr. Strangelove, while Peter Sellers is giving his speech about surviving the nuclear war, the Russian Ambassador, standing right over his right shoulder, is visibly trying not to crack up.