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Edwin B

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  1. On 1/15/2021 at 6:18 PM, Doctor Suessicide said:

    Also, while making that compilation I noticed Gnorm's kryptonite: glass doors. Bullets are no big deal, but two of his escapes are foiled by transparent bonk walls.

    Exactly! And doesn't he got knocked out by a punch from Jerry Ohrbach, too? Very odd that he can take a bullet, but not a punch from a middle aged man!


  2. On 1/15/2021 at 11:57 PM, ErinRene said:

    Just like Jason, I laughed out loud at the CPR attempt on the corpse. It was so smart, and completely surprising. I’m laughing again just remembering it. 

    Omg, I was thinking the same thing about this joke and the whole commandeering the hearse scene! If it was in a good movie I could see it working. But I thought that a lot while watching A Gnome named Gnorm (and during every other HDTGM movie).

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  3. 17 hours ago, DannytheWall said:

    There's no Corrections & Ommissions, but I still want to clarify the Bugs Bunny thing. Yes, Bugs Bunny's carrots was definitely inspired by Gable, but the name of Bugs is taken from the animator Ben "Bugs" Hardaway, whose design pages were labeled "Bugs' Bunny" (note the apostrophe) and the name stuck. Having names like "Bugsy" and "Doc" in the movie is coincidence and shows the names' commonality rather than a correlation. 

    And as much as the discussion is getting caught up in the genre trappings of the film, which many say makes it worthy of the list, I think there's a lot going on with a psychological context that's more deep when you place it in history. Is Colbert's character representing the upper class and Gable's the lower? If so, is Peter then admired for "punching up", or is Ellie admired for "leaving" her station? Is there a celebration of community (like the bus scenes, getting a hitchhike, "we're all in this together" kind of thing) or a celebration of using community to your advantage (your individual needs manipulate the situation)? And although the age differences of the characters aren't so pronounced, it's still a bit weird. Tho that line of thinking makes me wonder how much is it a coming of age kind of story for Ellie.  

    Thanks! I was going to post about this. The 1938 cartoon 'Porky's Duck Hunt' was co-directed by Ben 'Bugs' Hardaway, and was the first time a rabbit character appeared in a Warners Brothers cartoon. As various directors and animators used the rabbit character he evolved, and in the 1941 the cartoon 'A Wild Hare', directed by Tex Avery, he turned into the Bugs Bunny we know today. Compare the Clark Gable scene where he leans against a fence post eating a carrot while talking to Carole Lombard to the scene in 'A Wild Hare' where Bugs Bunny eats a carrot while casually talking to Elmer Fudd. (go to the 2:30 mark) 

     

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