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Donnie Darko - SPOILERS
Sashca1007:
I think Elle has accomplished 'A' and 'B' now-- she just called me from the video store and asked if she should rent the original or the director's cut and what's the difference? I hope my answer was adequate. I did tell her that the director's cut not only has things added to it, but it has things taken away! I've heard people talking about it who are happy to see some of the additional elements, but very disturbed about certain things being removed and songs replaced with other songs. Do any of you feel this way? Elle said she figures that she should see both, and I agreed, but I told her she should definitely see the original theatrical release first, then see the director's cut afterwards. But that is just MY opinion, so hope I didn't steer her wrong.
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Melinda, of course I know just which scene you mean. Poor Donnie - that damned Dr. Thurman keeps waking him up in compromising positions, doesn't she? There's that hugging one, too. And yes - if I were her, I'd definitely wait a while longer in both cases (and then eventually be arrested and/or institutionalized, I reckon).
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Ha! Barb, If I were that doctor, I don't think I'd have the fortitude to let go of Jake Donnie during that hug ::) . And I certainly would have watched whatever was about to take place in that other hypnosis scene, but that's because I'm a lecherous old woman who would like to see whatever Donnie/Jake has to offer!
Devilishly handsome and disturbed young man. LOVED him in this movie. I also loved watching the interplay between Jake and Maggie's characters-- so....realistic as brother and sister!
Elle-- don't forget to come back and report!
ednbarby:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on August 09, 2006, 07:21:05 pm ---The familial scenes were incredibly realistic. I very much enjoyed the trampoline scenes. A scene of something so mundane really struck a chord. Unlike some teenager movies, teens aren't always hanging with their friends or on the cell or having some sort of chasing girls action with the buds. Sometimes, real teens are home with their families, jumping on the trampoline with their little sister in the back yard on a sunny day.
Jake was perfection in this movie. It was like the role was written for him. I can see no one else in the role. Donnie was complex and troubled and half-mad and I loved his character. He was by turns extremely compassionate and cruel (see the deleted scene about 'Watership Down'), wise and confused. A perfect teenager.
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I loved the trampoline shots, too. I'm with you - something about it made my heart stop. And I'm with you about Jake in this one. Just perfect.
Elle, I think Melinda is right. Watch the theatrical release first, then the Director's Cut. I really loved the added Watership Down scene in the DC. But having watched that my second time and then buying the original and watching that my third, I did notice that things were cut from the original that I had really loved, too. Either way, though, it's all good.
ednbarby:
--- Quote from: Sashca1007 on August 09, 2006, 10:19:38 pm ---Devilishly handsome and disturbed young man. LOVED him in this movie. I also loved watching the interplay between Jake and Maggie's characters-- so....realistic as brother and sister!
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I love the interplay between them when he says to her something like, "Yeah, and you'll still be working at the Yarn Barn" - that look she shoots him, and the little sideways grin he gives her back. I love how of course it's so real - they're antagonizing each other, but there's a lot of love there, too.
I also thought Mary McConnell was perfect as his mother. First of all, she actually looks like him. But much more than that, I just loved again the interplay between them. That one line - "Where did my son go? What happened to him?" I find myself wanting to say that to my own son sometimes, and he's only four. When you've seen the sweet side of your boy for so long and now see all that anger - I thought she just nailed that. I loved how she talked to the Bible thumper, too.
Kd5000:
Well in the director's cut commentary, the director speculates that scientist from the future have caused an accident which results in a corruption of the space/time contium. They then proceed to fix the corruption in time space by reaching out to someone living in that time period.
Personally, I prefer to think it was a natural occurance and that divine intervention summoned Donnie Darko to correct the problem. Sometimes the director can say too much.
Wikipedia has the most concise information about this film. The GROUND HOG analogy is used, that this scenario will keep repeating itself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_darko
I'd still like to know where the director got all this stuff. The famous science fiction writer Phillip Dickey someone told me. Maybe I'm misspelling his name. Anybody know if he wrote this sort of sciene fiction.
Mikaela:
--- Quote ---Devilishly handsome and disturbed young man.
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Here represented by the both of them: ;)
Isn't this just the cutest picture? :)
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