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Donnie Darko - SPOILERS
Ellemeno:
--- Quote from: ednbarby on August 14, 2006, 07:16:53 pm ---Not having seen the credits and not having access to my DVD right now (not that I would have cheated or anything ;)), I'll take a flyer at Eddie and Elizabeth.
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Nope, the true answer is way more Mind-Messin' than that, but thanks for playing, Barb. This is an open book test. Anybody want to blow our minds with the answer?
vkm91941:
James Richard Kelly writer and director of Donnie Darko, is the son of Lane Kelly and Ennis Kelly of Midlothian, Virginia ::) and yes I cheated because Elle said it was an open book test.... ;)
Ellemeno:
--- Quote from: Victoria on August 16, 2006, 01:57:26 am ---James Richard Kelly writer and director of Donnie Darko, is the son of Lane Kelly and Ennis Kelly of Midlothian, Virginia ::) and yes I cheated because Elle said it was an open book test.... ;)
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Ding! Ding! Ding!
We have a winner! Thanks for playing, Victoria. It is kind of Mind-Messin', isn't it?
Ellemeno:
Okay, I'm ready to talk a bit about my Donnie Darko experience. It freaked me out, but compelled me too. I've read all kinds of stuff on it now. I have listened to "Mad World" about 50 times since I first heard it a few days ago.
While I thought I was pretty much "getting it" as I watched it the first time, turns out I didn't hardly get nothin' (based on listening to the the writer/director's commentary). How weird is it that I like my version of understanding it better than I like his.
I am going to watch the Director's Cut soon, though it sounds like I have seen a lot of the additions already in the deleted/extended scenes on the first DVD.
I am astonished by how many references there have been to DD under my very nose and I didn't realize it - our users Sparkle Motion and hungry, hungry hippos, for example.
And last (for now), I was IN the Aero Theater with starboardlight, henrypie, and others. It's where AnglessFest took place (where Heath, Jake, Michelle, Diana, Gustavo, and Rodrigo were a very few feet away from us). One of our gang at the time mentioned that it was the theater you see in DD, but not having seen it yet, that didn't make much of an impression on me.
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: Ellemeno on August 17, 2006, 02:13:22 am ---While I thought I was pretty much "getting it" as I watched it the first time, turns out I didn't hardly get nothin' (based on listening to the the writer/director's commentary). How weird is it that I like my version of understanding it better than I like his.
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Me too. Not being particularly into the Christian angle, I didn't at all get that he was supposed to be a Christ figure and it was about god and destiny and blah blah. I was more into the time travel paradox thinking and the eternal question we all ask ourselves - if we knew then what we know now, would we do X differently? - and things like, it's all in Donnie's head. He's really insane and never left his bed.
--- Quote ---I am astonished by how many references there have been to DD under my very nose and I didn't realize it - our users Sparkle Motion and hungry, hungry hippos, for example.
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Heh. Surprise! ;D
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