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Mary Mouser...
Have u ever seen anybody faint because of something someone said?...
This was at the theater?!...
Do you think Elphaba's shit is also green?!...
With a $250-Million budget, this thing is more in the red than...
I didn't like these two particular aspects...
Eli Roth / Adam Sandler/ And ???...
Never really got that one iconic role...
I don't buy the daughter theory...
Inconsistent weather...
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Oh yeah, Cast Away had a fainting scene with Helen Hunt, I forgot about that one. Off the top of my head, I also remember seeing one in Christmas Vacation (the Grandma faints over something, I can't recall what exactly) and, a more recent one, Django Unchained, when Kerry Washington's character sees Django unexpectedly. There's got to be hundreds of these scenes.
I think Hollywood writers often don't feel their reveal is dramatic enough, so they up the ante with someone fainting to it. I'm surprised Tarantino, one of my favorite writers, stooped to that level though.
Yes, been wayyy too long! :)
Mine is so long, it has a knee! :)
So what if WE didn't know? I'm talking about this from Andy's perspective. Early on I wrote "Put yourself in Andy's shoes for a moment"... what the audience knew at that moment wasn't my point.
Yeah I get all that...my question/statement was that he'd still be in big legal trouble - and would be wanted/probably forever on the run - after committing additional crimes like escaping from prison, using forged documents, using stolen money, and crossing the border illegally, amongst other things.
LOL!
The cut out anything deemed bad...any criticisms of him, any obviously bad decisions made as president, how he treated AIDS patients, how his "corporations/rich-people-first" policies destroyed the middle class...which would have covered an entire Marvel-style collection of 34 movies...and instead just focused on the made-up right-wing propaganda nonsense (approx 1hr/45 minutes) and a few factual things (approx 15 minutes) and that filled about 2 hours.
Ok, I agree with all that...but I never said they "should have" done this or that...I simply said they "could have" done this or that. I even wrote "It's hard to say they made the wrong call, seeing they got out."
But yeah, this has to be one of the most amazing survival stories of all time. I think the hiker Aaron Ralston who cut off his own arm also belongs in the conversation of most amazing survival story.
I think the employee fits the definition almost perfectly. Sure, they mixed it up slightly, but it was certainly a Magical Negro. A Magical Negro is typically 1) Friendly and/or Trusted; and 2) Provides the main actor with what he needs to continue on with his/her story. This was clearly the case with the concert staff employee. Whether or not he provided the password as a friend or if he was tricked into it doesn't make any difference. He provided the password that moved the story along. Without the password, Hartnett is caught, and the story is over. The Magical Negro saved the day, from Hartnett's perspective at least.
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