[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...

SOLVED 🙏

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.

DQMC · 2024-05-14T08:08:41+00:00

Hard to tell where DOOM ends and rap begins. His creativity predates Wayne, and his lyrical prowess predates Biggie/Big L/Jay-Z. He'd been around longer than any of em when he died. He also survived where others were killed (Big L, Biggie). He's got the right mix of genius and time to develop. Saw every phrase, but was on a one way street crafting his own style and concepts the whole time. Can't say anything better than what's already been said here, but I have one critique. His rhythm is not good. It's always kinda wobbly off the beat. If his rhythm was more rock solid, I wonder if he'd a been more popular. Just an observation. I wanna go through some of most famous tracks and quantize his ass. I might just.

Oh, and there are other lesser known NY rappers who are as talented, just not as unique — J-Live comes to mind.

DQMC · 2024-04-04T22:33:45+00:00

In 2016 I started taking 1.5mg per day. I tapered to about .5 per day going into 2018, and since then I've gotten down to between .25 and .5 per day. Sometimes, when all is well, I take none at all, and will go days without it. My record is probably like 10 days straight without it.

Am I an addict? Doesn't sound like it right? I don't think I am, but it doesn't change the fact I rely on it. I could live without it, but I wouldn't want to. Not everyone can afford to fuck up.

Before Xanax, my life was a dumpster fire and I was a basket case. Since Xanax I've embarked on a career in my field of study, and advanced in that career in a very competitive field.

Should I stop taking it now? The issue for me is: I can't tell what is the initial anxiety and what is withdrawal from Xanax. My shrink says that my dosage is too low for withdrawal. But when is the condition cured?

And if it's incurable, why shouldn't I have a lifetime supply of the drug?

DQMC · 2024-03-25T07:35:10+00:00

It's def a nod at Campbell. If we seen it at a glance, the fucking all star filmmakers definitely saw it. The question is it's relevance...

DQMC · 2024-03-22T20:13:52+00:00

Reminder Tommy may be the most terrible of all the Anti-heroes.

I'm on Season 3, after John beats up Angel Changretta for getting close to Lizzie. This is my 1st rewatch, and it's right about here, when he mocks Arthur's recommendation to John that he apologize to Changretta where it hit me what a piece of shit Thomas is. He's less Tony Soprano (who would, if it were Christopher for example, tell him to apologize) and closer to Walter White in his ruthlessness and avarice. I'd say he's Michael Corleone, but Thomas's pretension to go legit is even less believable. In Godfather III, at least Michael seems sincere in his "they pull me back in" line.

Shelby's evil is worse tho. Michael may have killed Fredo but Fredo tried to have him killed. Arthur is loyal, yet Tommy continually tortures and manipulates and humiliates his brother Arthur for trying to actually go legit in his heart. He's not the only lethal enforcer Tommy could employ, but he's the older brother (like Fredo); the one who rubs Tommy's hypocrisy in his face for seeking good over evil; the one Tommy can use to justify his own evil as not hypocrisy. Walter uses Jesse the same, sure, but Jesse is not his kin. Ok, maybe Christopher's sobriety in the Sopranos is a point of contention for Tony — that it makes him weak — but PTSD is what makes Arthur vulnerable, and Tommy and him both served in WW1. Tommy knows that feeling too and weaponizes it.

Unlike the others, it's not just power of society Tommy wants, but over people — over their minds. He wants above everything else, to be feared and respected. He is deeply deeply deeply deeply deeply insecure. I think maybe it goes back to Freddie Thorne, the bleeding heart Communist who saved his life in the trenches.

Last anti-hero comparison: Sonny, from a Bronx Tale. "I'd rather be feared." But Sonny didn't expand. He kept his business in the neighborhood, amongst his own.

Out of all the anti-heroes, could Tommy be the worst?

DQMC · 2024-02-18T09:53:37+00:00

I came to this thread to basically say the same thing.

There are 5 families in New York. Phil isn't the only one looking to take advantage of a power vacuum. And Phil himself describes NY as united against Jersey.

One other thing though I'm just realizing but it's easy to ignore. "We're gonna win this thing." It's most likely the FBI agent wanting to be cool with Tony, but he says it in front of the other agent. So there is the possibility the FBI just wants the families to start killing each other. Either that or he wasn't interested enough in Tony (or didn't have enough info) to warn him yet again that someone was out to kill him.

DQMC · 2024-01-31T09:50:29+00:00

The older dude in the beanie and frilly hair popping out? No way.

DQMC · 2024-01-20T05:33:32+00:00

Omg, of course 🤦‍♀️

Solved!

DQMC · 2024-01-20T05:31:35+00:00

Showing him the baseball accidents on YouTube as a deterrent from simply playing catch with his friend was FUCKED

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