In the beginning, Hudsucker commits suicide, but comes back later as an angel. Now, isn't suicide a mortal sin?
shareI'm going to stick a cog in a machine, stop time, float 20 some stories in the air and think about that question.
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In the beginning, Hudsucker commits suicide, but comes back later as an angel. Now, heaven and angels and the afterlife aren't real. When you die you cease to exist.
it's not a goof you moron. it's a movie.
To say,
"Now, heaven and angels and the afterlife aren't real."
is only an opinion...and it's extremely uncalled for to call someone a moron merely because they were seeking clarification about something in the movie.
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No, it isn't merely an opinion. It is what the (lack) of evidence suggests. When I say the Easter Bunny and Santa aren't real is that just my 'subjective' opinion, or is it objective fact? I could argue that a teapot is floating around Jupiter, or that the universe is simply 'turtles all the way down'. When people express these notions, people don't defend them with the relativist recourse of "that's only an opinion". Religious fairytales and illusions do not deserve to be held in higher regard simply because they hold sway over the masses than other stories...
shareI agree with the other poster, that calling somebody a moron is uncalled for.
shareor maybe this isnt a christian movie. This ones really gonna blow your mind, Waring Hudsucker represents god....and the janitor is father time.
shareWell... if we're going to assign metaphysical roles here (and granted, at least a couple of the minor characters seem to have mystical powers), there's a rather obvious God vs. Devil battle between Moses and Aloysius in the clock tower near the end, so that's how I would match the roles to their cosmic equivalents.
Incidentally, both this film and "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?" have prophetic speeches from black characters (Moses here, when speaking to Amy; the man on the handcart speaking to the convicts in "Brother"), and I'm racking my brain to think of whether any other Coen films have similar scenes...
Both of which are played by the same actor too.
shareLee Weaver in 'O Brother,' Bill Cobbs in 'Hudsucker.'
sharethis flim is rich with "symboloigy" (a little bds humor). as in any peice of art the symbols are going to represent differnt things to different people. However, one thing i put together that i feel was fully intentional of the cohen bros. was how Hudsucker Industries is the largest company (big business) in New York (the world) and the board of directors (illuminati) are trying to keep any "slob in a smelly tee-shirt" (working class) from getting rich/ starting business' of their own. in terms of the mail vouchers (red-tape) and taxes and fines ("AND THEY DOCK YA") it might sound a bit conspiracy theory-ish, but it fits.
shareYou had me at Boondock Saints...you lost me at Illuminati.
You're reading WAAYYYY too far into this.
I am Jack's IMDb post.share
Maybe he had a heart attack and died on the way down?
shareYou can't really consider that a goof, because not everyone believes that. Plus, I don't think the Coen brothers do anything without being very sure of it.
shareIt's not about believing. If there are angels in the movie, then, well, that's the movie's rules. It's merely about contradiction within the film.
shareNo contradiction, no goof. They get to establish their own rules in a film. Since they never establish that suicide is a mortal sin, then it is fine to put in angels from people who commit suicide.
shareLike someone already stated, it's only in Catholicism that suicide is a sin, so obviously Hudsucker is a protestant.
Just watched this movie for the first time at 1 AM in the morning on tv.
Enjoyable, but not wouldn't watch it again for the coming ten years.
I'm not sure when it changed, but suicide is no longer a mortal sin in the Catholic faith. (And it wasn't just Catholics anyway; a character in the Anne of Green Gables series is afraid of committing the Unpardonable Sin, which is suicide.) It is currently considered that anyone committing suicide is not in their right mind and therefore does not have the ability to have the necessary intent.
share@gillianmadeira... I love that you cited Anne of Green Gables as your proof that other religions believe suicide is a mortal sin. You are just ridiculous.
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Tell me, in wich religion do mortals become angels when they die? Sin or no sin?
It is however common use for example in old cartoons to depict characters that have died with wings, a harp and a halo. So its no goof in the movie, it just a way of showing that hudsucker is in fact dead.