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It was all a set up to make Wayne the man he wanted to be ?

posted 10 years ago by fraggle1984666
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I don't know if anyone mentioned it before but i got the feeling that Bill Murrays character had no intention of keeping the girl and set the whole thing up as a thank you for Wayne saving him, to force him out of his comfort zone and become the man he longed to be.

During his heart to heart with Murray he mentions the loneliness, the wanting to be a man and less of a coward or something along those lines. And i just got the feeling by making him fall for the girl and then trying to take her away it was all a clever scheme to make him fight for her, get his balls back and win the girl.

It reminded me a lot of how Jack Nicholsons character in Anger Management played Sandler to get him to become the man he wanted to be.

[–] jramza-1 10 years ago

This was my take on the ending exactly. I only enjoyed the movie, until the end ; then I loved it. I really felt the ending elevated the quality of the script considerably, especially given the ambiguity by which it was explained by an ambiguous character, in Bill Murray. I like the way he follows up, saying he thought they could be friends, but then admitted that they could never have an ongoing relationship, given the differences in the people they hung out with. So much meaning behind the spoken words.

[–] ExTechOp (2770) 2 years ago

Interesting theory but I disagree that was Murray's character's intent from the start, or even at all at a conscious level

I think that's just how things played out

Once Murray saw that he HAD in fact made a man out of a mouse, albeit inadvertently, he was satisfied enough to back off