100 Things I learned from Flash of Genius
100. Point the bottle of champagne away from you when you open it
99. Money isn't important, even when you have 6 kids to feed
98. Detroit apparently gets more rain than Seattle ... or the Amazon.
97. Greyhound has no dress code, so if you're wearing a bathroom and slippers, get on board! And if you're carrying a kite, you can sit alone!
96. If you invent something, and a BIG COMPANY steals it, cower down and run and hide, or your wife and kids will ALL leave you, and not stand behind you!
95. Sometimes ... just sometimes ... a kid or two may come back and help, years later ... but, the wife? Forget about it!
94. I guess there was a time in Detroit, when you didn't have to LOCK the doors on your Cadillac!
"Oda Mae ... tell her DITTO" Patrick Swayze-(Ghost) R.I.P.!share
93. $30 million plus a horny Lauren Graham are worth giving up if you can get the "credit." Yeah that makes sense. What does he need with a ton o' money and the love of a hot babe? He's got......"credit."
92. Speaking of credit, the windshield wiper delay is much more important than some frivolous discovery like the polio vaccine or penicillin. So, take that Jonas Salk and Al Fleming. He invented.... the wiper delay.
91. Taking yourself way too seriously is a sure symptom of mental illness.
90. Don't bothter to actually send your product to Washington first, get approval and produce them yourself (like everyone else does) Have the auto companies do it for you, then complain when your invention is "stolen."
89- It's okay to play with the lives of your 4 children and wife by missing a car crash, because that might turn her on to make more babies.
sharebut it's a true story ...
shareWell it's sort of a true story. "Based on a True Story" means what it says It's Based on a True Story.
I was impressed with the way they made something as remote and boring as windshield wipers part of a romance scene. Loved the way they did that. Eat roast for dinner, curse at God and then take a ride in the rain using the new wipes with Bob there smiling that glorious smile over at his longsuffering wife.. No wonder she got hives and stuff living with that guy.
That being said, Greg Kinnear really impressed me with this performance! He always does. He's always so wonderfully understated.. perfect for this type of character. Shadows of Auto Focus! I could see William H. Macy in this too.
Bob's obsessions reminded me of what happened to Lenny Bruce after he went out of his mind from being arrested and watched by the police all the time.
Whither goest thou, America, In thy shiny car in the night? ~ Jack Kerouac
my point was that some of the sarcastic items appear to imply unrealistic aspects of the film, the problem is that those things happened
96. If you invent something, and a BIG COMPANY steals it, cower down and run and hide, or your wife and kids will ALL leave you, and not stand behind you!
95. Sometimes ... just sometimes ... a kid or two may come back and help, years later ... but, the wife? Forget about it!
That happened over a period of several years. He just drove everybody crazy with it. He had a obsessive personalty and it landed him in a nervous hospital with a breakdown. The breakdown itself screws with you to the point that you never really get back the way you used to be. His wife couldn't help him becuase he wouldn't allow her to. Her health was diminishing because of this man's obsession. He literally pushed his wife away and she went and rebuilt a life with someone else. You're not looking at this film with the correct depth.
Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion - Edward Abbey
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Greyhound doesn't have a dress code. I travel the hound in nothing but a coat once. No clothes, no shoes.. just a newly purchased ticket and a box of kleenex. The ticket cost me $36.73
I did not know the de-troy-it had a rainy season.
Shelby I'll ride the Greyhound with you next time.
Ok I have to ask: what were the kleenexes for?
Bitter tears of regret, my friend... bitter tears. Never fall in love with a junkie.
Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion - Edward Abbey
I hear you... Never fell in love with one but I had to write off many of my friends, unfortunately.
And the more I tried to help, the less it would help, the more it would cost me (not just money, mind you).
Sad...
(I was hoping something perverted actually)