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Old 08-27-2010, 08:06 AM   #61
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But see I DON"T buy what Tarantino says, he of all people should know what was in the briefcase,
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Old 08-27-2010, 09:41 AM   #62
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I'm sorry Guys. Not my intention to give false information (about the briefcase). I got the info a long time ago, treated it as fact. Should have done my research. I never knew it was never explained. Soul works in my book. It explains the bandage. It explains his character. But i guess just a "theory."
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Old 08-27-2010, 11:44 AM   #63
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There is a guy on youtube that gives a pretty good guess at this one (since no one can really decipher Stanley K). He walked through a lot of SK's work. Some I agreed with and some I didn't... With 2001ASO I liked his version. He explains that we evolve each time we discover the black singing rectangle, and at only those points throughout the movie do we ever hear the stone "singing" except for two other times. One is at the intermission while stairing at a black screen, and the other is at the end while going through the light show. The blank movie screen at intermission is actuall the black rectangle turned sideways and the audience (us) is evolving, and half way though the light show it also turns "sideways" to tie in the movie screen as the monument and give us a clue that we are part of the story.
I can buy that. Pretty good explanation.
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I got to look into that. There is a movie, i believe it's a prequel. I thought they made a movie that tied it togehter.
I've never watched the series or the prequel movie. I hear it does tie up some loose ends for the series. Netflix has the movie for anyone who's interested.
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But see I DON"T buy what Tarantino says, he of all people should know what was in the briefcase,
since he freaking wrote it. Anyone else that wants to posit a theory can say that crap, but from
him it's just a copout.

I never bought the whole "soul" interpretation for what's in the briefcase, because then, how the hell would a bunch of douchbags like Brent and his friends get ahold of some bad@ss gangters soul? The lack of explaination for what is in the briefcase has never bothered me though, the movie is too brilliant on so many other levels for me to get bogged down into "what does it mean?" I think Tarantino is one director where it's dangerous to try to search for depth or symbolism. Pulp Fiction is one of my all time favorite movies, but honestly, Tarantino's ouevre is Pop art, pure style over subtance and sure, it is entertaining as hell, the craft and cinematography are streamlined and beautiful, and it has some of the most brilliant dialogue writing you'll ever see, but looking for depth and substance in a Tarantino film is like looking for depth and substance in a creme brulee dish; all that's there is a delicious layer of fluffy sweet entertainment. That's the big problem I had with Inglorious Basterds, it just seemed wrong to make such a fluffy, vapid revenge flick out something as terrible as the holocaust and WWII. Sure, it was good time, but I felt a little dirty afterward
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Old 08-30-2010, 10:32 AM   #66
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Shutter Island.
He understands what he did and doesn't want to live with it, so he pretends to still be sick so they will lobotimize him. That way he doesn't have to remember what he did, or live with it.
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1408. Another great King story.

Towards the end of the film you can hear the operator on the other end of the phone say something like "even if you get out of this room, you'll never leave".

I took that to mean that at the very end of the movie it's just another con job, he's really still in the room.
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There Will Be Blood. I love that movie, love it, but the ending always strikes me as rushed. Maybe there's something about it I never got, but it just never struck me as proper for a film as awesome as it was.
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There Will Be Blood. I love that movie, love it, but the ending always strikes me as rushed. Maybe there's something about it I never got, but it just never struck me as proper for a film as awesome as it was.
I've always kinda agreed with that thought Joe. I think because the movie itself is almost so anti-climatic until the very end, you are just waiting for stuff to happen, and in the last 8 seconds it all does. I love the movie, anything Daniel Day Lewis is in, is by default amazing, but it has that crappy, climax/rush the ending culmination, although the scene in the in home bowling ally is pretty awesome
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Pulp Fiction - what's in the briefcase??
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Did it matter what was in the brief case?

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Rambo
I mean, for real... do you know how much the ammo for that Electric cannon woulda weighed?
Or was that Predator?
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Not only that, but that wasn't the end...was it?
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I watched it again last night... What if a person never got to see Return of the Jedi???
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I watched it again last night... What if a person never got to see Return of the Jedi???
I never have, what's the rub?
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