Things in films you just don't understand

[isitme]

Scarface, wtf is going on with the guy in the mask about 3/4 in?

He just dances about like a cunt, is that what entertainment was about then?

It's a racist joke, he's meant to be a stereotypical Cuban, and of course, Miami had just had a massive influx of Cubans

I wouldn't be surprised if that sort of stuff went on in those days

 

[Clair De Lune]

I love that film too, I am saddened that electrogirl doesn't, I really am

 

[electrogirl]

ugh it was so twee. there was something unsettling about it aswell.

 

[Clair De Lune]

So's your face

 

[_pH_]

I think it is something to do with the people from planet Earth having evolved to the point where they are able to escape the planet and go intergalactic, leading to a new future of life in the universe. I think the word 'transcendence' is implied here, not just a physical development but something on a 'higher' level. Hippy bollocks or 'Spiritual' enlightenment, whichever your prefer.

nope, none the wiser.

 

[avu9lives]

bed knobs and broomsticks! just dont understand it¬!

 

[isitme]

re: 2001

I thought the idea was that he got to meet god, and it turned out that god was him as an old man and him. I once read a short essay about it and quite frankly it wasn't worth working out

 

[electrogirl]

So's your face

Do you and quimcunx own it? Cos I do and I don't want it, I'll send it you if you want.

 

[Clair De Lune]

I would actually but only if it comes with an owl picture

 

[electrogirl]

I would actually but only if it comes with an owl picture

Right i'll send it with v. late owl...

 

[Clair De Lune]

Me and my daughter are going to have to make you a shit hot owl to compete with that! f f f feeling the pressure.

 

[quimcunx]

Do you and quimcunx own it? Cos I do and I don't want it, I'll send it you if you want.

I'll have it. It'll make a lovely gift for someone.

 

[Maggot]

Right i'll send it with v. late owl...

After what she said about your face?

 

[electrogirl]

I guess I'm just really comfortable with how nice my face is.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

What happened to the witch of the South, good or bad?!

 

[electrogirl]

Me and my daughter are going to have to make you a shit hot owl to compete with that! f f f feeling the pressure.

it's okay, I 'aquired' it, never paid for it.

I'll have it. It'll make a lovely gift for someone.

fight fight!

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

why danny and sandy?!

 

[electrogirl]

why danny and sandy?!

what do you mean?

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

well, why did she end up going for him?

 

[electrogirl]

well, why did she end up going for him?

She knew the real him, the one she met on the beach, the one under the t-bird jacket.

 

[electrogirl]

And he was hawt.

 

[isitme]

why was will smith's girrlfriend in Independence Day still working in a strip club to pay her bills when he was a fighter pilot?

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

She knew the real him, the one she met on the beach, the one under the t-bird jacket.

he's certainly better than anyone else on offer, that's true. kenickie or the italian dough boy

why is everything free in america? it wasn't when i was there....

 

[_pH_]

Independence Day: why ?

you mean this

 

[London_Calling]

why was will smith's girrlfriend in Independence Day still working in a strip club to pay her bills when he was a fighter pilot?

You've got 2 and a half hours of complete gibberish and narrative non sequiturs and you're worried about his girlfriends job . . .

 

[electrogirl]

he's certainly better than anyone else on offer, that's true. kenickie or the italian dough boy

why is everything free in america? it wasn't when i was there....

Kenickies alright! He's quite sweet and cool actually.

I wish I'd never seen the Grease reunion though, they showed it on telly and basically, apart from Travolta and Olivia, NONE Of them have ever moved on or worked again. Most of them are still stuck thinking whimsically about ramamala ding donging and telling kerazy stories about how Olivia has to be sewed into her black saucy out fit at the end..'omg the funny about that scene was...etc'

And they dressed them all up in their outfits and they looked so old but so grateful that anyone was actually interested in them, a little shiny gleam in their eye was there..'i was famous once!' and then the cameras left them and they went off to their normal jobs and to tell their grandkids about when John Travolta fell over during You're the One That I Want for the 50th time, a gentle naive ignorance that Tommy's eyes are glazing over..'Grandad's off on one again..'

 

[London_Calling]

Stockard Channing's never stopped working. Can't remember anyone else in it so you might be right about the rest.

 

[electrogirl]

Stockard Channing's never stopped working. Can't remember anyone else in it so you might be right about the rest.

oh yeah and her. her olivia and travolta.

 

[miniGMgoit]

The end of Fight Club? I mean he shoots himself in the head?

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Why, with the exception of Pulp Fiction, do charachters never go to the toilet for a dump!?

In Pulp Fiction Travolta does and shortly after, gets killed!

Maybe toilets are a bit of a fixation for Tarantino - in True Romance, which he wrote, Christian Slater's character goes to the toilet and that saves him from the big shootout.