Whats with all the cartoons through out??
What's Jarmusch getting at with many of the gangsters and characters constantly watching cartoons??
sharethey all have links to do with the story, eg rounding up birds, the shootout
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OH COME ON! Are you serious? Felix the cat's magic bag paralleled ghost dog's briefcase. The shooting death of ghost dog preceded the itchy/scratchy gun scene. The I/S cartoon at the grave site was shown right after ghost dog killed the girl's father. Geez, it's no wonder some people didn't like this film. If you wanted 90 minutes of breasts and explosions of course you'd be disappointed.
shareI think you're all missing the point. Yes the cartoons have allusions to the plot, but also I believe it was referencing the fact that many of these gangsters seemed cartoonish juxtaposed against the serious setting of the film.
And how could anybody possibly miss the connection between the cartoon guy firing his machinegun into the drain pipe and a hail of bullets coming out of the shower head, and Ghost Dog sneaking through the basement, turning off the water and unscrewing the big drain pipe so he could shoot the guy in the head when he looked down the drain? Come on! I almost fell out of my chair LOL. He'd already shot the bodyguard. He could have waltzed right upstairs and killed the guy. But no! He uses the drain pipe!
That whole cartoon business was clever, and a feather in Jarmusch's cap.
Pat Squire
I also felt that the specific cartoon each one was watching said something about the his or her character.
"To tell sweet lies
one last time
and say goodnight"
I also posted this in the the Theories and Ideas thread:
The cartoons have been discovered by many already to be foreshadowing of a soon-to-happen onscreen event. However, I think it goes beyond this. The fact the mafioso watch on the television what is about to occur, and yet are always helpless to stopping it when it actually happens, is a comic indication of their naivety, egos, delusion and ignorance, as their constant racial slurs and poor living conditions would indicate as well (or at poorer than you would think in a movie, for the type of business they run). This explains the use of a cartoon in explaining this instead of live action- its comic indeed.
JUST SAW:
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai: 10/10
The Seafarers: 8/10
This is the one thing about this film what i hate... They are always watching cartoons. I guess if there wasn't cartoons then there would be tv shows about animals, furthermore about lions :)
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Jarmusch uses two distinct techniques to foreshadow: excerpts from The Hagakure (the codebook of the samurai) and cartoons.
« All hope abandon, ye who enter here.»
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