Melanie to her dying breath never believed the rumors about Scarlett and Ashley.
For a long time I misinterpreted Melanie’s death scene in Gone With the Wind to reveal that she did believe the rumors, but just kept discretely quiet. But the novel set me straight: it was only Scarlett’s guilt that led her to initially infer that Melanie was admitting her knowledge about Scarlett and Ashley. But by the time Melanie finishes talking, Scarlett realizes that the opposite was true, that Melanie never once believed the rumors. This makes Scarlett feel all that more guilty after Melanie’s death, because she realizes that Melanie and her own mother were the only two women who ever truly loved Scarlett.
When I was a teenager and Braveheart came on HBO all the time, I watched it a lot. The last time was probably around 1998 or so. I caught it earlier this year and just now realized that Longshank’s son is gay.
Godfather pt 2, the “deal” between Hyman Roth and Michael. Could never get a sense of it… “what’s the point”, “How does this work”, etc.
Until I finally realized: It’s a con that Roth is trying to pull on Michael. Roth gets $2 million, Michael gets screwed when the casinos he just shelled out $2 million for gets nationalized by the rebels.
Terminator
Reese is the same actor that was one of the “Grunts” in Aliens
also the Drop ship from Aliens appears in Terminator in the dreams about the future.
I literally made that connection last week.
I only saw this movie once in 1984, so I’m going off of hazy memory, but I seem to remember something about Tom Hagen explaining to Michael that the assassin had terminal cancer and was going to die anyway. Hyman Roth was too well-guarded for anyone to pull this off in private, so they needed a kamikaze style attack where it would have been least expected.
I could be wrong about this, though.
2001, this thread reminded me about HAL going mad, which reminded me that I thought years ago that HAL was programmed to kill the astronauts, who weren’t supposed to know about the aliens at Jupiter.
The real movie made it pretty clear that Kris was something more than just a kindly old man. The cane in the house was the give away. Besides if the post office says he was Santa, you best not argue. I don’t recall Jack Albertson (the man from Chico and the Man) being in the movie. Are you mixing up versions Cliffy?
Took a long time to realize that in The Big Lebowski, the Dude has humpback whales on his checks…then is later listening to whale songs in the bathtub when the nihilists break in.
It wasn’t until I was an adult that I realized Han Solo was the real hero of A New Hope. Sure, that farmboy was a good shot, but the smuggler actually had to go against his self-interest to do his bit for the Rebellion. And if Han hadn’t taken out Vader, Luke wouldn’t have gotten to launch his proton torpedoes - he’d have been a cloud of incandescant gas.
He was the older mail clerk who came up with the idea of delivering the Santa letters to the courthouse.
Men in Black When Kay blows Jeeves’ (the pawnbroker) head off, the wandering eye changes sides when the head’s regenerated (“Do you have any idea how much that stings?”)
Someone on this board pointed out that in The Wizard of Oz, the Scarecrow is the smartest, the Cowardly Lion is the bravest, and the Tin Man is the most loving…I never realized that!
It took me a while to get the sexual connotations in Ghostbuters for the whole “gatekeeper”/“keymaster” shebang. Also, ghost blow-job earlier in the movie.
Although I’ve really loved this movie (both versions) since I was a little kid, I didn’t realize until a few weeks ago that the title, Imitation of Life, not only referred to Sara Jane’s trying to pass in life as white instead of black, but also referred to the phoney, actress-ey way Susan Heyward’s character went through life and treated the people around her.