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Donnie Darko Questions
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Kd5000 on December 02, 2008, 07:52:54 pm ---I've always been curious as to where the screenwriter/director Richard Kelly got all this stuff...The living dead, the manipulated living, the living receiver. It's some really deep stuff. How guided are we by God or other forces among many other things.
One of my favorite scenes has to be when Donnie and his girlfriend are watching The Evil Dead and this operatic music comes on and Frank in the bunny rabbit shows up. Danny asks him why are you wearing that silly rabbit costume (well maybe not exact wordchoice) and Frank asks "why are you wearing that silly man-suit."
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Many of the concepts presented in the movie remind me of those in The Tibetan Book of the Dead as interpreted by the Tibetan Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman.
Aloysius J. Gleek:
Since it's Donnie Darko Month: October 1 - 30, leading up to Hallowe'en,
then back to October 2 again, it seems appropriate to post this--
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PUFJmsCZLE&feature=related[/youtube]
(See 1:37-1:50 for Frank, whole again, yet...)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXbBlGBoUms[/youtube]
(See 1:49 and etc. Frank was Donnie's sister's boyfriend, and the artist
who created the mask and costume which he wore on Hallowe'en. In
the alternate timeline, when Donnie first avoided the jet engine and his
own fate, Frank accidently killed Gretchen, and then Donnie shot Frank
in the eye, killing him. When the 'original' October 2 timeline (with,
spookily, the October 30 jet engine) went back, killing Donnie, everything
else returned--but with an echo of a dream of a memory....)
Frank was played by actor James Duval
Front-Ranger:
Thanks for reminding us it is DD month, friend!! And, point taken, that is Frank under that stupid bunny suit!! But, you've got to admit, Frank looks a lot like Donnie's mom, even has the same hair-do!!
And now I had that Tears for Fears song embedded in my brain all night long! Thanks a whole heck of a lot!!
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on September 21, 2010, 07:09:37 pm ---Many of the concepts presented in the movie remind me of those in The Tibetan Book of the Dead as interpreted by the Tibetan Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman.
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Robert Thurman is quoted in the current New Yorker article about the Dalai Lama.
He is also the father of Uma Thurman (Robert Thurman, not the Dalai Lama).
Front-Ranger:
Thanks for the heads-up friend. Robert Thurman is the American who possibly knows the Dalai Lama the best, with Richard Gere as the second person.
The idea of DL being the father of Uma Thurman!! :laugh:
Later: arrrghhh! An interminably long article, with only one small quote by Thurman. But thanks the same friend!
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