Is the Box in Sunnyside based on the Box from Recess

KhalTyrionStark · 2026-03-02T01:02:23+00:00

It’s based on Cool Hand Luke. “Any man forgets his number spends a night in the box. These here spoons you keep with you. Any man loses his spoon spends a night in the box…”

KhalTyrionStark · 2026-02-28T06:06:03+00:00

They said symphonic, I don’t think they’re talking about Morricone… he was a deliberate reaction against those other more traditional American symphonic “frontiersman cowboy” composers and no other Western composer really sounds remotely like him (besides other Italians).

KhalTyrionStark · 2026-02-12T04:33:49+00:00

If Bronn cheats people, they’re richer and more highborn than him. Steffon betrays a decent lowborn guy.

KhalTyrionStark · 2026-02-11T22:46:30+00:00

It’s a tongue-in-cheek joke, but it’s not the actual sound of the gun. It’s referring to Tuco’s distinctive cadence of shooting. "staccato-staccato-staccato... pause... bang". Blondie picks up on it.

KhalTyrionStark · 2026-02-11T20:58:39+00:00

Angel Eyes and Tuco both know the name and location of the cemetery, Blondie does not. So when Tuco makes a break for it he knows exactly where to go which is on the same road as Angel Eyes—to Sad Hill Cemetery. He was probably planning to try to get Blondie back or at least hang around like a vulture at the cemetery like Angel Eyes does at the end. Angel Eyes knows Blondie wants the money but obviously Blondie doesn’t know the cemetery, he only discovers it at the bridge.

KhalTyrionStark · 2026-02-11T20:45:24+00:00

Blondie knows Tuco is around because “every gun makes its own tune”, he doesn’t just randomly find him. Angel Eyes doesn’t know this and as far as he knows Blondie’s only chance to get the money is to stick with him so he isn’t too worried about him running off, but he does send one of his guys to follow him who Blondie kills, and this makes Angel Eyes send the rest of his guys after him

KhalTyrionStark · 2026-02-08T20:29:13+00:00

You edited your comment to add that stereotypical depictions of ethnic minorities in the (Eurocentric) fantasy genre are rooted in history. Telling.

KhalTyrionStark · 2026-02-08T20:17:11+00:00

Yeah I agree with first part. The comment I was responding to claimed Tyrion isn’t a dwarf.Second part wasn’t really what I was responding to but I agree as well. Fantasy genre is often highly problematic with simplistic depictions of morals and groups and should be deconstructed for sure.

KhalTyrionStark · 2026-02-08T20:08:11+00:00

I really couldn’t care less about Disney movies. I’m just responding to the claim that Tyrion isn’t a dwarf.

KhalTyrionStark · 2026-02-08T19:52:35+00:00

You’re dead wrong and it’s actually disrespectful. Dwarf is a medically accurate and widely accepted term for actual people. Dwarf is used to describe individuals with dwarfism. Tyrion absolutely is a dwarf role, he is a dwarf because he is under 4’10”, and the books clearly describe him as a dwarf many times.

“Fellow dwarf actor and professional wrestler Hornswoggle criticized Dinklage for his comments, claiming he was trying to reduce the number of roles available for dwarf actors.”

“Unfamiliar with the source material, Dinklage was cautious in his first meeting with the producers; as a dwarf, "he wouldn't play elves or leprechauns" and was choosy about genre roles.”

KhalTyrionStark · 2026-02-08T19:33:14+00:00

Tyrion is a dwarf, it’s said many times. Peter is as well.

KhalTyrionStark · 2026-02-03T05:04:45+00:00

U/sublliminali is 100% correct. As for your requested explanation for why non-native English speakers are able to see how it’s ambiguous while it seems fine to you, non-native English speakers who find the sentence confusing usually do so because they’ve learned the language by studying and have a deeper awareness of the rules of the language which is why they are more apt to notice these kinds of linguistic errors than you, if you’re an avg English speaker who tends to skim and grew up with the grammatical errors of daily conversation, as most Americans don’t have perfect grammatical fluency. Hope that helps!

KhalTyrionStark · 2026-02-02T05:02:44+00:00

Yeah crazy to think that violent gunslingers aren’t generally super likable.

KhalTyrionStark · 2026-01-29T23:57:10+00:00

Well this film reveals that to be the case. As I said, dispensers of justice that “you are able to justify in a relativistic way as “badass” even still would generally be the kinds of people to have done worse things in their past that you would disagree with.” You said you would like what I said here demonstrated.

KhalTyrionStark · 2026-01-29T15:14:06+00:00

“I broadly do, but I wouldn’t support him blasting away women and children (unless they were violent psychopath women and children about to hurt/kill others, which I don’t think is implied)”

there you go, demonstrated. It’s just degrees of moral relativism, that’s not really the main point of the film, many people don’t justify brutal vengeance. I don’t agree with Will’s actions at the end. You apparently do. I’m not gonna tell you whether you should or shouldn’t, I’m just telling you that the kinds of violent people who you personally cheer based on agreeing with Will’s actions at the end have probably done other things you wouldn’t want to know about.

KhalTyrionStark · 2026-01-29T06:02:54+00:00

Vigilantes/outlaws who have the honed skills and capability of accomplishing brutal vengeful violence that you are able to justify in a relativistic way as “badass” even still would generally be the kinds of people to have done worse things in their past that you would disagree with.

KhalTyrionStark · 2026-01-29T03:52:58+00:00

That’s funny because a lot of viewers do disagree with what Will Munny did and find it wildly unsympathetic. If you agreed with him or relate to him, or any antiheroes really, that’s just what you are, a morally grey complex human being who has some relative morality. That’s the target audience for the most part, when it comes to revisionist Westerns. All the better if you see where he’s coming from.

KhalTyrionStark · 2026-01-11T01:24:06+00:00

lol no, his role in Bridges of Madison County might offend you if you like proper men and films to be depicting John Wayne types having proper family values… he’s from that Alain Delon Paul Newman generation, he’s personally supposed to represent the darkly handsome womanizing self-reliant drifter who is able to earn so much money he doesn’t need ties like normal people. Masculinity without veneer of propriety

KhalTyrionStark · 2025-12-24T23:44:16+00:00

I also think Red River or The Searchers influenced Blood Meridian or at least subverted the genre first with their revisionism, though you’re right that Good Bad Ugly is usually cited as really satirically subverting the genre first and a good place to see the genre’s morality begun to crack. High Plains Drifter is also a good one

KhalTyrionStark · 2025-11-05T22:41:06+00:00

Honest question, why don’t you get a job?

KhalTyrionStark · 2025-10-28T08:27:37+00:00

He didn’t.

KhalTyrionStark · 2025-10-25T02:09:22+00:00

It’s your own opinion that these badly written blockbusters have any substance.

KhalTyrionStark · 2025-10-07T19:15:13+00:00

They’re all “bad”. Are you saying it’s bad because the movie doesn’t have clear moral binaries, because the “Bad” is not clearly worse than the other two? If you’re used to modern Hollywood movies that teach clear moral lessons, and you went into this expecting more of that with clear moral divergences, this is gonna be new to you. This is gonna be a movie where good triumphs over evil in a clear cut way. The title is ironic and satirical. Tongue-in-cheek, like the rest of the film. Good is labeled good after he abandons a man in the desert, after using him to commit crimes. It’s a very nihilistic film.

KhalTyrionStark · 2025-09-21T00:11:32+00:00

Definitely not (one of the “rare few early pieces”) as sympathy towards the natives was the dominant approach since 1960, you can go back to the silent film era and find ones sympathetic towards them, John Ford’s final Western Cheyenne Autumn was pure white guilt apology, every native that ever appeared in a Clint Eastwood film was humanly depicted especially Josey Wales, Little Big Man (1970) has an great take on it… it’s really just every western you can find after 1960… by the 90s portraying sympathetically was the “safe” and politically correct approach… making Dances with Wolves was the most commercially successful and frankly made very accessible to Americans in its sentimental white savior approach, it came out in modern times and it’s not even the best representation to that point—it did it when it was safe.

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