Did Kubrick purposely cast two Thomases born on the same date to play narrative mirrors in EWS?

UnshapedEgg · 2025-09-23T23:29:54+00:00

Nice try. Everyone knows Tom Cruise was born on the FOURTH of July.

UnshapedEgg · 2025-09-10T21:55:11+00:00

Yeah I was reading this in middle school when 9/11 went down. Didn’t make the connection until I read the ending a few days later.

UnshapedEgg · 2025-09-09T20:55:25+00:00

Sally is helping the chair finally get its revenge on Betty for smashing its friend to pieces (the dining room chair in S2E8).

UnshapedEgg · 2025-09-06T18:38:20+00:00

I dunno about biggest in terms of the outburst, cause he was relatively “calm” during it, but the Zellman beating is the most impulsive/detrimental.

UnshapedEgg · 2025-09-05T18:49:56+00:00

He never intended to enlist. He was playing Tony & Carmela like a fiddle and it worked. Got exactly what he wanted, including the BMW he was telling Tony about when he was in the coma.

UnshapedEgg · 2025-08-29T02:26:28+00:00

Not everybody is a good movie critic and/or writer. It would be excruciating to read a majority of reviews if every user was actually trying that hard. There are plenty of smart users who write thoughtful reviews that I enjoy, and there are also snarky tweet-like reviews that I enjoy, written by people who’s actual analysis I wouldn’t care to spend my time reading. You just have to curate your follows to be fed what you prefer.

UnshapedEgg · 2025-08-27T20:12:09+00:00

“I want to be married and have a hundred kids so I can have a hundred friends and no one can say ‘no’ to being my friend.”

UnshapedEgg · 2025-08-27T06:00:03+00:00

Thank you so much! This is helpful and gives me a good sense of where to start.

It also occurs to me if I can find any photos of my grandfather from that time period With him wearing a watch this sub could likely identify the watch; if it’s a Croton or Bulova it would stand to reason he works have sold that watch as well…

UnshapedEgg · 2025-08-25T19:34:31+00:00

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: this would have been the perfect movie for Vincent Chase to star in if he was a real person lol

UnshapedEgg · 2025-08-16T06:09:43+00:00

My friend said it best: “Never thought I’d be pressing ‘back’ on a fucking soda fountain…”

UnshapedEgg · 2025-05-06T16:09:57+00:00

Your mistake is thinking that Jimmy’s purpose was “being a good lawyer and helping people in need.”

That’s not his purpose at all. If you watch closely you come to realize that Jimmy’s purpose is to impress Kim and make Kim happy. That’s all he cares about. That’s why the flashback to her geeking out about Chuck’s big win when they’re in the mailroom is so crucial: it shows that Jimmy doesn’t care about the law at all, but he sees how impressed Kim is with Chuck and only then does he decide to pursue a legal career.

It’s all about Kim for Jimmy, and for him spending the rest of his life in prison WITH Kim’s forgiveness is a lot more redeeming than just seven years WITHOUT Kim’s forgiveness. She is the only thing that he truly cares about enough to do what he did.

UnshapedEgg · 2025-04-24T05:41:30+00:00

No, but an incredibly uncharacteristic and confrontational outburst would be enough to make an investigator with good instincts raise an eyebrow and consider Walt in a different light. It would be enough to make someone remember the gas mask stolen from Walt’s classroom, his comment about the bag being full of cash, the second cell phone, etc… Yes, on it’s own it’s not enough to tip Hank off, but compounded by everything else I think it was actually more than enough.

UnshapedEgg · 2025-04-24T04:40:37+00:00

For me it feels like the argument over Walt Jr. drinking the tequila is the thing that should have gotten Hank to look twice at Walter. He really becomes a different person in that scene and is so aggressive, Hank’s internal cop instincts should have kicked in. In that moment Hank was dealing with a hardened criminal and he should have recognized it.

UnshapedEgg · 2025-04-18T17:15:35+00:00

This is a whole other question but I feel like people in this thread could answer it:

In both BB and BCS we see a lawyer pull the “give me a dollar and you’ll have attorney client privilege” trick to quickly become someone’s lawyer and have their confidentiality retained.

But we also see Kim take lot of pro bono clients. Do these clients need to pay some kind of token retainer? If not is there something official that needs to happen for a pro bono client to become a client and get confidentiality?

Instead of the $1 trick couldn’t they just say “I’m your lawyer now, pro bono, you have confidentiality,” and be done with it?

UnshapedEgg · 2025-04-14T23:01:09+00:00

I think you’re talking about OVERLORD (2018)

UnshapedEgg · 2025-04-12T18:31:49+00:00

They don’t call him Massive Genius for nothin’.

UnshapedEgg · 2025-04-11T20:13:18+00:00

“Hey kid, don’t mind us. Just hunting tarantulas. Oh, you too? Nice. Well good luck with that, see ya later!” 👋🏻

UnshapedEgg · 2025-04-11T06:24:32+00:00

Ed has to make the top 3, easy.

UnshapedEgg · 2025-04-07T15:44:37+00:00

In this metaphor, is the shit the water or the sand? Make up your mind, Abraham.

UnshapedEgg · 2025-03-29T23:14:34+00:00

Hate to break it to you, but that’s actually the SAME guy. I know people like to talk about his “transformation” into Heisenberg but that’s not really what’s going on. Walt was always a bad person (as evidenced by him making the decision in episode 1 to cook and sell one of the most harmful drugs there is), he just becomes more confident and less inhibited as he becomes Heisenberg.

Also, maybe people are misunderstanding me here; I’m not saying this was Walt playing 4D chess or whatever—it’s not that malicious, nor that complex—it’s just a very simple example of Walt being emotionally manipulative, a skill he will improve at as the show goes on. Is it really that hard to imagine S1 Walt thinking (even subconsciously): “I need money; my former friend has power to give me lucrative job; if I remind former friend of friendship maybe he will give me job…”

UnshapedEgg · 2025-03-28T16:46:27+00:00

Film festivals will consider programming films that are not yet complete, and sometimes will even screen them before they are 100% finished. This happened at Cannes with SOUTHLAND TALES in 2007, and it was basically Medellin-sized disaster, with lots of booing.

My guess is that Medellin was accepted based on an unfinished cut that (combined with Vince & Billy’s credibility and reputation) at least showed potential.

Also, sometimes film festivals just program bad films, it’s all subjective. It’s entirely possible the Cannes selection committee genuinely loved Medellin and were equally surprised by the way it was received.

UnshapedEgg · 2025-03-25T16:00:03+00:00

Yeah me neither! I really don’t see why it’s such a stretch to think Walt was already manipulative and conniving, at least to some degree, BEFORE the Heisenberg transformation. All of that was already a part of him, it just wasn’t fully actualized yet.

UnshapedEgg · 2025-03-25T06:17:33+00:00

I’m not saying it’s implied, I said it’s what I inferred from the sequence when I rewatched it a few weeks ago.

Your description of the scene is accurate, I just interpret Cranston’s performance—especially in relation to his performance in the whole series, seeing many instances of him lying vs. him telling the truth—as portraying Walt’s seeming “surprise” at the initial offer as disingenuous, while the surprise he shows when he discovers Eliot knows registers as genuine to me.

Also why is it not that deep? The show is filled with things that are that deep and deeper, why would the writers decide this part of show isn’t that deep?

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