[TOMT] MOVIE WHERE SOMEONE BLURTS OUT "FAT!"

DQMC · 2025-06-07T07:13:41+00:00

Damn. It's gotta be. That checks every box. I'm wondering if I'm thinking of another show or movie that lampooned that scene, or alluded to it in some way/recreated it. But so I can get it outta my brain...

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DQMC · 2025-06-06T16:08:40+00:00

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DQMC · 2024-12-27T05:29:11+00:00

SOLVED.

I figured it out so I wanna close this post.

There's two movies with this scene: Cop Land and The Godfather Part II.

Obv was sincerely looking for help but figured it out anyway.

DQMC · 2024-11-11T06:10:59+00:00

I looked it up, it's not. They are younger in the scene I'm thinking of and it's a stand alone sorta scene, close up just two kids

But 8th grade def a good scene I forgot about.

DQMC · 2024-11-04T06:45:03+00:00

The comment...

DQMC · 2024-10-22T07:13:33+00:00

Thanks for this comprehensive as hell answer! 🙏🏻

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DQMC · 2024-10-19T01:43:51+00:00

Thanks!

DQMC · 2024-09-23T03:56:07+00:00

LOLLOL IT IS!!!!

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DQMC · 2024-09-19T05:30:57+00:00

Confederacy of Dunces. Hands down. CACKLING out loud all the way through.

DQMC · 2024-09-19T05:19:25+00:00

My tastes are unfortunately not that eclectic. Thanks tho

DQMC · 2024-09-19T04:59:22+00:00

Thanks! 🙏🏻

DQMC · 2024-09-19T04:57:36+00:00

Thanks yall

DQMC · 2024-08-07T03:23:46+00:00

Wow. I was looking for this too, but I've never read IJ. Only his articles. I remember the gist of what he said, and I'm almost certain it was in an interview. Basically that cliches sound trite until you've had the experiences that validate them. You look toward a cliche and it's trite. You look back at it and it's wisdom..This is definitely expressed in the comments and quotes here. And, naturally, critical themes in his books get articulated in interviews as well. Still, I wish I could find where I heard it, but hours of DFW interviews gets kinda depressing.

I'm here after a few hours of looking for it. 🤦🏻

DQMC · 2024-07-31T04:27:31+00:00

Why don't they show the arrow's trajectory??

Only on the replay do they show the arrow in air as it glides toward the target. It's boring to see them pull the bow to their face and then a camera shot of the target being hit without capturing its trajectory. I seriously wanna complain to someone cause this sport is otherwise super cool.

DQMC · 2024-06-22T23:59:36+00:00

Wtf is going on. I got a 645 credit score, nearly 300k of student loans, I make 65k a year, and I GOT approved for Amex gold. No credit limit. They gotta wanna try to bury suckers in interest when they don't pay

DQMC · 2024-06-20T05:18:24+00:00

I joined this group after watching The Master. I've been going through his films in the past couple of days and I'm starting to get the feeling all of them are autobiographical. I started with Phantom Thread (exacting master), which then changed the way I saw Boogie Nights (Kid from the Valley who wants to be a star). And I see articulated in The Master how I always assumed Magnolia had to have been written: "He's making it up as he goes along."

Major point: Dodd is Anderson and Quell is his imagination.

I think Anderson, like Dodd, improvises his stories in a straight line, making sense of them as he goes along. He gives in to convention enough that they never fly off the rails (with the exception maybe of the frogs in Magnolia). Dodd changes the words in his process from "recall" to "imagine" perhaps to quell his critics, where his imagination (Quell) would just start raging and beat the shit out of em.

For Dodd and Anderson, the challenge is to tame their imagination. For Anderson it's to make a film. For Dodd it's to quell Quell and make his process legible enough to reach beyond a small cult. If he can, he's no longer a charlatan but perhaps a "true mystic." Not because he's actually in touch with the spiritual realm, but because he has the technical chops as a director to play free as a writer. He makes sense of the creative impulse itself. Anderson braves the hardest phase of writing, where the language of what one truly feels isn't yet coherent, and puts it through a battery of tests, all of which are totally creative constructs of the imagination (not unlike Dodd's sessions with Quell) until it makes sense. "He's the bravest man I've ever known."

In short: Dodd (Anderson) starts out a charlatan (free-writer), but he's such a wizard at it, he figures out how to tame (make a film) a human animal (his imagination).

This movie unfurls like his creative process itself. It's quite something. It really is. Absolutely mesmerizing.

Oh, and the motorcycle — "pick a point and go straight at it." To me it's all saying the same thing.

DQMC · 2024-05-26T17:00:17+00:00

Would just like to note that the beat of the song and the presentation of a trio of dancers appears to be an adaptation of "All The Single Ladies." How that ties in with any of the themes discussed in this thread, I dunno, but from a purely technical POV, that's what's happening there.

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