Did Frank eat Don? - Frank (2014) Discussion

[–] All_Seeing_Fly 10 years ago

No. :)
I think he would have tasted the difference.

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[–] eljefemartin 10 years ago

But don't you think they might have gone through with the funeral then? I can imagine Frank doesn't really care about what he eats or how it tastes. He might have just overlooked that his Grownut doesn't taste like it used to ^^

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[–] All_Seeing_Fly 10 years ago

No, it's not his ashes so they didn't go through with the spreading of Grownut, for obvious reasons.
Frank comes across as acutely sensitive, I'm not sure how you got the idea of not caring what he eats, it's got to taste of something better than flaky ash floating in water, right?

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[–] joe6-2 10 years ago

The question is not 'did they taste Don's ashes'.
the question is 'why did Don stop being the keyboard player'.

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[–] quirkyrecords 10 years ago

Pretty sure he did, that's why Clara says "dons is in the desert" or something like that.

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[–] mechajutaro 10 years ago

Did Frank eat Don?

No; wouldn't be surprised if his final act prior to entombing his skull in that f--king mask though was to chow down on Clara. Banking there's still a curl or two lodged in his esophagus in the aftermath of such trauma....

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[–] redstoneemily 10 years ago

My take is that Frank did - entirely unintentionally - cannibalise Don. At the end of the ashes-throwing scene, Frank utters this tiny appalled "Oh, God" as if he's just had a horrible realisation that transcends merely getting grownut tins mixed up.

Also his body language and "expression" aren't exactly reassuring at this point, but we can probably chalk that one up to the Kuleshov Effect.

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[–] eljefemartin 10 years ago

I thought the same. I don't see Frank as "acutely aware" to everything, as one reply suggested. I see him as incredibly apprehensive of things that other people don't even notice and completele ignorant toward all worldly matters.
(He doesn't phone, book gigs or drive the car; he doesn't know what Youtube is.)

Of course it's a huge stretch from there to eating cold ashes, but this movie isn't exactly realistic.

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[–] mechajutaro 10 years ago

he doesn't know what Youtube is.)

Are we to presume then, that he doesn't know who Jesus is or what praying is?

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[–] dylank381 10 years ago

But then how can he be saved, from the eternal grave?

"This is a $4000 sofa, upholstered in Italian silk. It's not just a couch"
"IT'S JUST A COUCH!"

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[–] Judge_Hellfire 9 years ago

Sorry, just now getting around to watching this movie and I heard it as Frank saying Oh, Don, not Oh God. I'll have to give it a second listen and see which it is.

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[–] enmasse 10 years ago

Pretty sure, yeah, the point/joke was that he accidentally ate him. As you said, it's a work of fiction and everything in it is weird, unexplained, and far-fetched...

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[–] verycoolnin 8 years ago

Yeah, I think that was the joke.

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[–] johnnyhightest 10 years ago

Well, I just watched the movie, and while I'm sick as a dog and my senses may not be at their most acute, I thought I heard someone say, "oh, we grabbed the wrong one!" which would imply that Frank didn't eat Don.

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[–] hooplahpengilly 10 years ago

This. Frank didn't eat Don. The joke only extends to the fact that they were commemorating his life by spreading Grownut. They grabbed the wrong tin, and his ashes were left behind. That's that.

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[–] ethermusic1981 10 years ago

Exactly. These posts about cannibalism have had me laughing.

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[–] ReelRocknRolla 10 years ago

Yeah the French dude said "I grabbed the wrong box." I assume that meant he grabbed the wrong box of Grownut.

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