While this doesn’t count as volunteer “work,” it’s still volunteer something. Not everyone would be willing to sacrifice their personal time to help out their sick grandparents.
That’s true. We don’t know much about what gave her her Inner Beauty[TM].
The one Hal talked to said that all three of them were co-workers at some blind-people thingamajig. (Hal’s response was, “Cool! I knew a deaf guy once.”)
You got me that time. Say … my music theory training reminds me … when Hal was seeing Cadence’s inner beauty, would that make her the “Authentic Cadence”? And when he was seeing her on the surface later, would that be more of a “Deceptive Cadence”? <rimshot> Hah, I kill me!
I wanted to resurrect this old thread today because Shallow Hal is finally out on DVD!!
Woo hoo!
While it was in the theaters, I saw it 17 times – I even made a Shallow Hal gushing fan webpage. And tonight, after being deprived of Shallow Hal for four months and two day, I’m finally going to get to see it again!! With 11 restored scenes not shown in the theaters! And the ability to freeze-frame on the lovely Ivy Snitzer (Gwyneth Paltrow’s body double) in those few scenes where she’s visible!
<humming gleefully> Because loooooove grows / where my Rosemary goes / and nobody knows like me!
Now I see why there is a Jack Black cult. He can turn a dreck concept (and the concept is dreck) into something watchable, and turn something casual into something wondrous.
As a certain Jazz great once remarked, “If you don’t know, you ain’t never gonna find out.”
Incidentally, I’ve finally gotten to review the DVD. My first thought was, “Hey, they re-recorded the dialog in that first scene with Hal and Jill!”. My second thought was, “This audio commentary track consists mostly of the Farrely Brothers telling me which of their friends they cast in walk-on roles.” My third thought was, “Holy cats! Rosemary was originally going to be named Kimberly, but for that ‘Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes’ song?!”
And my fourth thought, after seeing some of the deleted scenes, was, “Wow, I love this movie. I want to marry it.” I haven’t felt that good or smiled like that in a long while. sigh
I don’t know what to say. It could be considered incredibly touching, or incredibly offensive, depending on who you talk to. I don’t know if I could disagree with either argument.
SPOILER!!
The seen with the little girl who was a burn victim seemed like it was trite… but why my eyes watering!? :smack:
I didn’t see the movie from the very beginning, so maybe that made a difference, but can someone explain the scene in the car – the double date, Rosemary and Hal, and Hal’s friend with spina bifida and the skinny older woman from the hospital. ??
She seemed to be quite a bitch in an earlier scene in the hospital, so why does she look beautiful from Rosemary’s point of view when they’re talking in the car?
Is she gorgeous or not? Why doesn’t Hal see her as attractive? Is she ugly underneath but Rosie sees something they don’t?
Because Rosemary isn’t under Tony Robbin’s spell; only Hal is.
Hal sees Nurse Ratched as ugly (skinny, old, chain-smoking) because she’s a shallow person – she’s dating spinal bifidia man because he just sold his company for beaucoup bucks. But Nurse Ratched isn’t ugly; she’s a physically attractive specimen. Thus, when she and Rosemary are chatting in the car, we see Nurse Ratched as she truly appears: beautiful (note during that scene we also see Rosemary as fat rather than slim). Rosemary, spinal bifidia man, and everyone else in the universe other than Hal sees Nurse Ratched as an attractive woman.
Does anyone know whether Gwyneth Paltrow had a body double for some of the scenes where she’s thin? In other films she’s always looked pretty but a little too gaunt, but her body looked nicely lush in this film. I’ 'm specifically refering to the scene where she takes off the thong lingerie. They only show her from the back, and I’m dubious that it is really her.
Your dubiosity is well warranted. According to the audio commentary on the DVD during this scene, the actress we are seeing nearly-naked from behind is not Gwyneth Paltrow, but a woman whom the Farrelly brothers refer to as Gwyneth Paltrow’s “butt double.”
Even CapAlert, who hates every movie that doesn’t loudly proclaim that Jesus is your Savior or that has so much as a square millimeter of exposed adult flesh, said of that scene: “Misted me eyes, it did.”.
BTW, in the earlier scene where Hal and Rosemary were leacing the children’s ward together (after having played the Kissing Game with them), you can see the camera pan upward as they walk out of frame just before the scene ends. The Farrelly’s were originally planning to pan all the way up to the words “PEDIATRIC BURN UNIT” in that scene, but in the end decided to save it for the later scene where Hal sees what Cadence really looks like.
I would hate to be lying in bed and see Gwyneth running to jump on my prone, waiting body, and then be struck by the reality of being crushed by a spine-snapping behemoth.
Imagine if the premise was reversed: He sees Gwyneth as herself, then gets “blessed” so he sees people’s inner ugliness; then when he looks, he sees her as the 300lb version. Then maybe he could look in a mirror and see Steve Buscemi smiling back.
:smack: