Posted on 01/23/2005 3:44:28 AM PST by Roscoe Karns
Or so I hear...
Or maybe not
Checking sources...
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CONFIRMED...........Groundhogday *LOVES* you.
If you ever care to make that email public I'd love to read it.
athe the Schooner Wharf down here in Key West we have replaced our participation in the Breakfast Club (Beer it's not just for breakfast anymore) with a Groundhog Day Club (every day in the Schooner is the same) and the morality of doing something positive in the face of recidivist mediocrity has worked out well
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My favorite line:
"Don't drive angry. Don't Drive angry!" just before Murray drives the truck over the cliff while the GH is sitting on his lap.
It's really not much more than what I posted, but here it is:
Hi Jonah:
I've seen GD many times, and also think it's one of the greatest movies ever.
To me, the essential meaning is that until someone loves and cares about someone else, not in a narcissistic way, but in a deep and abiding manner, life is meaningless and every day is fundamentally empty and the same.
Oh, and it's very funny. One of my favorite moments is when Murray drives the pickup into the quarry pit.
When the truck crashes, cameraman Chris Elliott, who of course detests Murray, half-heartedly says to Andie McDowell "he may have survived." Then the truck explodes in a tremendous ball of flame, whereupon Elliott laconically observes "well, maybe not."
Regards,
Believe it or not I've never seen the Money Pit. I hear it's good, though. My personal nomination for 2nd most funny movie ever: Easy Money.
SOMEBODY ASKED ME TODAY:
PHIL, IF YOU COULD BE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD WHERE WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE?
AND I SAID TO HIM, PROBABLY RIGHT HERE -- ELKO, NEVADA -- OUR NATION'S HIGH AT 79.
ROTFLMAO! In other words, consider this a virtual flame,since I am unable to provide you with a real one at this time!
And most certainly an excersize at looking at yourself, seeing the problems and realizing there is always time and circumstance to make adjustments and corrections.
GHD is the memory reliving events and working on those corrections ... conviction, if you will, repentence and getting things right.
(hated the damned thing)
Of course I'm kidding.
It's one of my favorite movies along with Cold Comfort Farm. I watch it every February.
It's one of my favorite movies along with Cold Comfort Farm. I watch it every February.
"Kelly's Heroes" and "Local Hero"
I've said that for years Mrs. Rightly Biased just don'et get it I really like Groundhog Day..
BTW "Don't drive on the Railroad tracks"
i llhave to agree with the author it probably is all that and more i love ground hog day
I was very bored with Groundhog Day, it reminded me too much of every day I lived in Buffalo NY. And I don't like Bill Murray. He talks too much.
But then it has been 40 years since I took cinematography and we mainly analyzed Bergman films as I remember.
isn't it interesting that films like GHD and Wonderful Life get poor marks at the obx office - but are classics years later. Bagger Vance could be such a film- too bad Dreamworks never let it get legs. (the book was better!!)
My favorite GD-related lore: rumor has it that duing the mid-90's, "I Got You Babe" was the most requested song on Armed Forces Network Radio (AFN) in Kosovo. Seems every day had become the next such that the troops, like Murray's character, wanted to begin each day with the Sonny and Cher song that awoke him on his hotel clock radio.
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