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<blockquote>[β] Owlwise (1541) 5 years ago
15 years later, do you feel any differently about this film?
I liked it a lot when it came out, when I was in my 20s ... but now that I'm in my 60s & married to the love of my life for so many years, the film moves me in a way that it couldn't move my 20something self. Everything it's saying about the profound & redemptive power of love & acceptance of the end of life, is true. It's one of the most honest & beautiful films about growing older & realizing what really matters that I've ever seen, in fact.</blockquote>
Haha, I wondered the same thing. I also feel very differently about this film than I did when I first saw it as a teenager. I feel quite protective over this film now. I can only imagine how vicious the extremely self-centered "modern" audiences would say or do toward this film... Makes me angry thinking about, but also quite sad as well...
<blockquote>posted 12 years ago by cookiela2001
Yes, I know she was emotionally bound to her father and the conventions of the times didn't encourage defying your parents, but the guy did ask her to marry him once and she didn't, and then she not only went to Europe for 6 months but stayed there for a whole year...
I'm not sure why she imagined her father would ever change.
Very sad story and well done (and of course I've seen the original), but this is also the story of someone who WASTED THEIR OWN LIFE.</blockquote>
Oh, she's even more obnoxious(crueler than her father even) in The Heiress(1949). Morris does wait for her when she comes back. She tells him point-blank that they must never have contact with her father again or ask him for anything- including her inheritance. Morris even "helps" a bit by saying that her father will relent eventually. Then, the fool had to nip that in the bud by saying even if that were to happen, *she* never would.
Then she proceeded to blame her father completely for her own foolishness. Accuse her aunt the rest of her family of not loving her for not feeding into her delusions that Morris doesn't care a wit about her money. "Love" wasn't even a primary factor for marriages during this time and society, which makes her actions all the more foolish and reckless.π
No, it's because they feel superior to everyone else because they're so "intellectual." No one else is like them. No one can be like them because they're so damn "special" and unique.
They may get picked on, but that doesn't mean they can't be insufferable regardless.
<blockquote>[β] Adam60z (3774) 5 years ago
They should have had Mr. Roper present the Oscar.
https://tenor.com/view/gay-threescompany-mrroper-roper-funny-gif-5464837 </blockquote>
It's posts this that make me love movie message boards.π₯°οΈ I just wish the boards for older movies were more active like beforeπ’...
<blockquote>[β] marktayloruk 14 years ago
My cynical theory as to why the South lost the War-on the evidence of this film,their gentlemen had all shot each other already!I think Julie should've arranged for Buck and Ted to have blanks in their guns.</blockquote>
Oh my... How did I miss this comment so many years ago?! This is offically one of my favorite comments of all time on thei site! Thank you!!!π€£π€£π€£
<blockquote> [β] daughterofolaf 8 years ago
Maybe I'm the stupid one here, not sure, but I thought it was because she was still not totally sure about whether she should/would turn back. It seemed like she was at least considering it on some level and the cop was getting through to her even if only slightly. Thelma is the one who walked up and hung the phone up, not Louise. Then Thelma made that comment outside to Louise telling her (or asking, depending on your interpretation) not to think about making a deal with the cops. And then after that, they talked about how they picture life in Mexico being and it seems at that point that Louise is reassuring herself when she says the cop would have to have some fantastic deal on the table in order to compete with their plans and vision of Mexico.
I didn't interpret it as sloppy, to me it seemed she was having second thoughts or at least regrets.
"Your petty vengeance fetish will have to do withOUT Mr. Groin!" </blockquote>
Not "stupid" at all! You actually do a really good job bringing some sense to a scene that clearly a lot of people were confused by, including myself!
<blockquote>posted 8 years ago by lil_miss_independent92
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Honestly...picking up J.D. seems a little out of character for Louise. She is very cautious and sometimes paranoid...then she just basically says *uck it...we will give him a ride. Maybe it's just me...but if they hadn't picked him up...they probably would have made it!</blockquote>
Or they could've picked him, Thelma could've still her fun with him, and just no left him in their room alone with the large envelope of cash wide out in the open on next to the bed. π€¦ββοΈπ€¦ββοΈπ€¦ββοΈ Louise even thought the same because right up until that (literally) fatal mistake, she was actually very happy for Thelma.
Can't believe no one has mentioned this yet:
Thelma: "Darryl don't have a cute butt. You can park a car in the shadow of his ass." π€£π€£π€£
<blockquote>-Louise blowing her cigarette smoke in Harlan's face.</blockquote>
I also love this scene so damn much. A shot that only lasts for a couple of seconds that you can easily miss if you blink. But, it's one of the most badass things I have ever seen. πππ
<blockquote>[β] paramitch 8 years ago
Beautifully put. The scene doesn't need the deleted scene(s) to be understood.
Louise connects with the old woman because she is looking beyond time in that moment -- at her own old age, but also at every old age. She is filled with love for the old woman but also with a kind of wonder (and fear for herself). She fears becoming that woman but also the opposite -- what if she doesn't live? What if she dies? What if she will never reach the moment the woman in that window is at?
That's how I see it.
She is also seeing the visible yearning in that woman's face -- that she too has yearnings, regrets, sadnesses. In one second, Louise and the old woman are the same person.
It is echoed later, somewhat differently, when Louise gives her jewelry to the old man. She has let go of all physical things. She is preparing for death and a spiritual life. She doesn't care anymore about things.
It is one of the most beautiful and important moments in the film.
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I keep thinking I'm a grownup, but I'm not. </blockquote>
Omg, this is so beautifully written. Thank you so much for sharing for sharing your fascinating insights on this scene!
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