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Poe: What, baby, am I doing it wrong?
Leia: Women are always on top. I need you to learn that.
(Leia then slaps Poe in the face and feels a lot better)
Suddenly, for no apparent reason, Admiral Akbar screams "IT'S A TRAP!", and then proceeds to go down on the farm with Leia, Holdo's widow, and Poe, leaving all three of them satisfied.
Poe: You must have a million questions.
Admiral Akbar: IT'S A TRAP!
Poe: Don't you wan't to know where Rey is?
Admiral Akbar: IT'S A TRAP!
Poe: Are you feeling alright, Admiral?
Admiral Akbar: IT'S A TRAP!
Poe: That does it! We're having fish sticks for dinner!
Admiral Akbar: IT'S A TRAP!
I guess laughing at the death of the only friends you've ever know is the "right thing to do"...I guess. Right, maybe, weird, DEFINITELY.
Not only did Finn kill them, he was partying down like it was 1999
Nuclear bombs might do that but interracial couples are a complete irrelevance. I might also remind you that as late as the early 1960's a Protestant and a Catholic getting married was considered a "mixed marriage" in the United States.
The Godfather Part II is entirely unique in that it is simultaneously a sequel AND a prequel to Part I.
If he was trained as a janitor why did he end up in an elite combat squad? Even if we accept that, if he was trained and indoctrinated to be a storm trooper from birth and has spent his whole life around other storm troopers, why would he suddenly completely turn on his own brother soldiers after a single death, even if that person was his best friend? Wouldn't your fist reaction be to want some "pay back"? How and why did he suddenly realize being a deserter was "the right thing to do"? And why is he killing his own former comrades just minutes after making this decision and whooping it up like he was at a football game?
Your Snoke theory sucks. Your Rey theory sucks. Your Luke theory sucks. (Are you detecting a pattern here?)
P.S. Sorry I didn't see the link initially. I'm used to the old IMDb discussion board format and didn't even notice it in your first message -something to do with the page layout, i guess
I had already seen this reported online and I didn't necessarily interpret this as a rejection of The Last Jedi, although it could be. My takeaway is that Williams was speculating on whether Kylo was telling the truth to Rey, much as there was speculation between 1980 and 1983 as to whether Darth Vader was actually Luke's father. Williams himself may not know yet whether this will turn out to be true, just as it is likely he didn't know if Vader was truly Luke's father or not until seeing a work print of Return of the Jedi. Obviously, he has a decided preference in the matter, but I don't know that this was the reason he chose not to do anymore. I would assume that Williams primary reasons for doing the new trilogy were out of loyalty to George Lucas himself and because he wanted to take advantage of the rare opportunity to develop musical motifs over a nine film saga. Since the personal influence of Lucas and Skywalker saga elements will no longer be there in whatever follows, he may have come to that decision anyway, no matter who Rey's parents turn out to be. I say "turn out to be" (as opposed to "turned out to be") because I'm not convinced this is the final word on Rey's history. I think Disney film may want to find some way to get themselves out of the corner they've painted themselves into and at least partially backtrack on this matter. Perhaps, Williams was trying to use his influence to put a little subtle pressure on Kathleen Kennedy and Co. to do just that. I'm afraid there's no hope for Snoke, though - he's dead and will stay dead. Anyway, I don't like the sequel trilogy even with Williams involved so it's kind of a moot point for me.
None of his public statements indicate he has any problem with the films at all. If you have some basis for this claim I'd like to see it. Ceasing to compose Star Wars films is more likely to be a leading indicator of his retiring from composing for good. He's getting up there in age and wants to be at the top of his game health-wise to give his all for every movie. Only he's knows his reasons for this decision but health and energy levels are much more likely explanations - unless you have some compelling evidence to the contrary. Quite frankly, I don't see what Williams would see in the new films or Rey as a character that would inspire him artistically, but that's me.
Williams has publicly stated that he loved the Rey character and that was one of the main aspects of the new trilogy that attracted him...unless he's not being honest and is just saying that to appease Disney. I seriously doubt it though. FWIW, I don't like the sequel trilogy at all, but I tend to take Williams at his word that he has no problem with the Rey character and actually is quite sympathetic to her. If he really hated the Rey character he would have quite any time, but he hasn't. It's not like he needs the money or has anything to prove to anyone at his stage in his career.
He'd be near 90 by the time the next Star Wars film after IX is ready. He may simply be getting older and needs a rest...he may even be contemplated retiring altogether after IX (assuming he makes it that far, which I hope he does). Not everything is a "liberal" plot, you know.
Both Deliverance and Southern Comfort are both essentially films about survival and manhood, it's just that Deliverance explores those themes much more coherently. The main thing that distinguishes Southern Comfort from Deliverance is the clearly intended Vietnam allegory, although what the is actually trying to say about that conflict are rather sketchy and opaque. Deliverance wisely avoided going down that road and is the much better film for it, in my opinion.
"also used in Out of Africa "
which Pollack also directed...must've been a favorite of his...one of mine, tooo
"also used in Out of Africa "
which Pollack also directed...must've been a favorite of his...one of mine, tooo
OK, so I'll just send the cocaine and the Ukrainian prostitutes over to my place then?
Whether this is true or not, Kubrick definitely did do something similar at the end of Eyes Wide Shut, where you see the long-haired blonde waiter and the two old bald guys (seated near the winged statue by the stair case) at Ziegler's Christmas Party reappear milling around the toy store in the film's final scene.
The under 30 crowd (not me, thank goodness) probably think she needed a shave, as well.
Here's something weird I bet you never noticed before. Check out this clip of the Gold Room sequence from the movie:
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRviKZEWcug[/url]
Check out starting around 2:24 to 2:30. Just before Grady stains Jack's jacket with the advocat, we see a young woman with a white dress walk past him. Now, I have no way of knowing whether or not that was actress Lia Beldam who played the young women in the bath, because I can't see her face. However, if you look carefully on her backside see we see a red hand print stain on her dress in the exact place where Jack places his hand on her buttocks when she appears in the bathroom. So, is that meant to be the same character, is it the same actress? Furthermore, if you look carefully, seat at the end of the bar you see an older women wearing a similar white dress. So, at the exact moment we see Jack stained with advocat by Grady, a woman with a red hand-print stain walks past, and all the while an older blonde women (the same actress playing the hag in the bathroom scene?) in similar clothing to the young women in white is seated at the end of the bar.