Bring out Gifs!
- Thread starter LittleSin
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...Let's build in one one of those beep-when-you-whistle things as well.
No idea what you're referencing, otherwise
No idea what you're referencing, otherwise
The relevant portion is at 6m30s.
--Patrick
figmentPez
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That looks extremely satisfying.
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Reminds me of the shrunken head guy from Beetlejuice:
[DOUBLEPOST=1439844774,1439844677][/DOUBLEPOST]Also, I did read somewhere that the Maitlands were supposed to be constantly wet since all the ghosts reflected their causes of death, but it was just a pain. I wondered, because it kind of pulled me out of the movie a little.
GasBandit
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That was a bit of fan fridge logic handwaved away with fanon thinking. Most of the ghosts they encounter physically manifest their causes of death (even the death counselor exhales cigarette smoke through the slash in her throat), but the Maitlands first "arrive" back at the house wet and then dry off. Some say this is due to them still being of "whole mind" or not yet accepting of their death, but I think the answer is simpler - they didn't actually die from drowning, they died from the impact of the crash.
Also holy hell has Alec Baldwin aged.
But yeah, if IMDB is to be believed, the original idea was for them to always look waterlogged, but the director worried it would make the actors too uncomfortable.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094721/trivia?item=tr1814490
So the interesting question becomes, what killed Beetlejuice? His own bad fashion sense?
At least in earlier drafts, the original idea was that Beetlejuice was a demon.
GasBandit
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Yeah, I read that as well... and also that originally the script called for him to attempt to rape Lydia. There were lots and lots of rewrites. Hence some things got lost in the shuffle. The headscratchers section of Beetlejuice on TVTropes is huge.
Oh yeah. I've seen one of those earlier drafts and a lot definitely changed.
Honestly, I just accept Beetlejuice as, if not a demon, then some high-powered entity. The level of how much he could affect others and the world around him definitely seemed greater than what other ghosts could do (or at least were shown to do).
GasBandit
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He makes reference at one point to having seen the black plague in action, so he's been around for hundreds of years. Note that most of the other ghosts we see are of contemporary origin.
Yet, doesn't Juno (the caseworker) say at one point that Beetlejuice used to be her assistant? That would seem to imply that BJ committed suicide, and thus was relegated to civil service in the Neitherworld.
figmentPez
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Picture two of these grumpy babies trying to make each other smile, and you have @LittleKagsin and I the past few days.
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From what I read, it was not supposed to be a comedy originally.
You know, I honestly always wondered what exactly killed the Maitlands. They were in (if I recall correctly) a Volvo 240 station wagon, which was a pretty damn sturdy car, dropping into a stream (probably less than 5 feet deep - small creeks like that are usually quite shallow) from a height not much greater than the length of the car. If the car went in nose first, they might not have even been immersed. However, while searching just now, I see that the car was supposed to have flipped over and landed on its roof, somehow, so yeah, they would have drowned.
Side note: Ve Neill, who won an Academy Award for the makeup and effects work on Beetlejuice, is one of the judges on SyFy's Face Off. This past week's challenge was to great macabre but funny undead versions of a couple (for several engaged couples who would be married in costume/makeup), inspired by Beetlejuice. When one contestant said they were specifically inspired to do the paint job they did by Beetlejuice,
Ve actually got audibly annoyed. The contestant said, "We thought they'd fit right in at the waiting room in Beetlejuice." Ve goes, "Well, I gotta tell you hunny, you completely missed the mark there! In Beetlejuice, we made sure that the features of the characters all had a light palette to catch the light on the features we wanted to accent. Here, you've put shadow where you should have highlighted and highlighted what you should have shadowed. This is not the first time you've had a problem with your paint job, either."
Side note: Ve Neill, who won an Academy Award for the makeup and effects work on Beetlejuice, is one of the judges on SyFy's Face Off. This past week's challenge was to great macabre but funny undead versions of a couple (for several engaged couples who would be married in costume/makeup), inspired by Beetlejuice. When one contestant said they were specifically inspired to do the paint job they did by Beetlejuice,
I now have a desire to watch Beetlejuice again. for the first time in... probably 20+ years
figmentPez
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Video games prove that wrestling isn't fake.
GasBandit
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@Celt Z : The dude in the grey hat was just asking any given passerby "U wonna get poked, mate?" which is apparently also slang for stabbed. The prank was supposed to be about facebook poking, he'd take out his phone and do the poke or some lame crap like that. But this one dude responded to the implied threat, and when a prank accomplice runs over to help, he gets shut down too.
Ahhhh.
Good. I can't say I'm sorry seeing some youtube
GasBandit
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What I like most is accomplice number 3 just keeps the camera rolling, doesn't stop to help.
GasBandit
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Doubt it will make it onto youtube in that case, though.
Heck, it might have already happened.