Did anyone else wonder why this scene was included?
I thought it was terrible and made me think of Will Ferrell-style humor.
It didn't seem to fit with the rest of the film and there were plenty of amusing parts without it.
Did it strike anyone else odd that it was included?
Really loved the rest of the movie though... :)
Yeah, i also got the feeling that this scene should have been funny but just wasnt.
I guess it was just one of those hollywood romance fantasies that mitty got pushed in his mind. Just like all the action and adventure daydreams that had nothing to do with reality.
Ben stiller could have chosen some other scene though. There are just enough stereotypical/funny romance scenes that mitty could have fantasised about.
But never the less a great movie. I wonder how Ben Stiller managed to do that. Probably had a lot of help by some other guys.
"I wonder how Ben Stiller managed to do that. Probably had a lot of help by some other guys."
yeah, he had! From the 1947 ORIGINAL?!?! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039808
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If you're going to mention the original, at least know that the stories are completely different. Despite the main character being a daydreamer and his name, there is no other similarity. The screenplay is completely modern.
shareWow I literally thought the exact same thing! That one and only scene just felt a little forced and over the top silly. It was early on in the movie too a bd I actually got a little worried that I'd be seeing more scenes like that but alas I was completely wrong. I gave the film an 8/10 and I was very impressed with Stiller's directing, acting and storytelling. A very fun film indeed.
shareYeah, it sticks out to me also. I loved everything else about the movie, but that scene just didn't work for me. Probably because I don't feel Benjamin Button is prominent enough in the public lexicon to be parodied, But I may be biased seeing as I hated that movie.
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It was an odd movie parody that made me think more were on the way.
shareI thought it was terrible too - out of place and not funny at all.
Definitely for me the worst part of a great film.
I'm in the minority...
I laughed so hard at that scene I was trying not to distract the other people in the theater.
Sure more of that all the time would have been too much, but the dialogue in that scene killed me.
(I've never seen Benjamin Button)
stars die..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxaIG8CunoU
I also laughed so hard I had tears streaming down my face/couldn't breathe. But I think the rest of the theater was only mildly amused.
It's funny how differently humor is received depending on the person.
same here.
The joke was the badly done puppet of B.Button with thin legs dangling off the bench ... it was a hoot.
I think it was just meant to show how Walter was overdoing things in his dreams and that you could not purely sympathise but also saw the pathetic part of it.
And it was poking fun at Brad Pitt.
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Me too. My friend tried to calm me I was laughing so hard. I had not seen Benjamin Button though.
Everyone in the theater laughed out loud at that part. I thought it was whatever but when everyone else was ROFL I had to join them. It was a funny scene that little kids and adults could both enjoy.
shareIt definitely was a parody of Benjamin Button, but apparently all the daydreams had some relationship to what happened later in the film. In the day dream, she says something like "strong little man." Later he asks for her help translating some notes in a foreign language, one of which turns out to say something like, "strong little men." He at first thinks she is making that remark about him, but she tells him it's the translation. Later he hires "strong little men" to help carry his gear when he is climbing in the Himalayas.
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The scene follows the park scene in which he is teaching Cheryl kid how to skateboard.
He was also looking at her to see , if she is not looking.
I think , he was trying to say 'I am a kid at heart' , in his imagination he exaggerated it .
The scene actually got some of the biggest laughs in the theatre I was at at least.
shareThe scene actually got some of the biggest laughs in the theatre I was at at least.Maybe that was me.
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He was daydreaming.
No one has ever control of what they dream, and it's evident his daydreams can take different forms throughout the movie.