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Blood Diamond The Rewatchables
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Blood Diamond

Sequel, Prequel, Limited Series, or All-Black Remake

A prestige television adaptation wins because it could expand the diamond economy, child soldiers, and Maddie’s newsroom.

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  • A series could spend more time on the diamond system and child-soldier story.
  • Vital Affairs magazine’s office, finances, and other reporting assignments could become a parallel thread.
Blood Diamond The Rewatchables
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Blood Diamond

Is This Movie Better With…?

Wayne Jenkins is proposed as either Maddie’s café companion or Solomon’s pilot.

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  • Wayne Jenkins, the observed Danny Treo, Catherine Hahn, Steve Bouchemy, J.T. Walsh, and Phil Baker Hall are offered.
  • Wayne Jenkins interrupting the final café phone call is the first developed addition.
  • Wayne Jenkins as the Australian pilot is the alternate placement.
Blood Diamond The Rewatchables
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Blood Diamond

Just One Oscar

Leonardo DiCaprio wins, with Edward Zwick proposed as an alternate.

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  • DiCaprio is the immediate choice, though his stronger case across both 2006 movies is emphasized.
  • Zwick is proposed for directing the unusually ambitious production.
  • The panel argues for an award that can recognize the totality of an actor’s year across multiple films.
Blood Diamond The Rewatchables
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Blood Diamond

Probably Unanswerable Questions

Which 2006 Leonardo DiCaprio death scene is best?

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  • The question compares DiCaprio’s deaths in Blood Diamond and The Departed.
  • Titanic is added as the iconic death, while The Revenant is briefly and uncertainly queried.
  • Blood Diamond’s romantic call and final act of protection are weighed against The Departed’s suddenness.
Blood Diamond The Rewatchables
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Blood Diamond

Producer review

Producer Craig praises lab-grown diamonds, the movie’s educational action form, and DiCaprio’s issue-driven stardom, while noting that similar stories have moved away from theatrical stars.

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  • Lab-grown diamonds are added as the clearest thing that aged well.
  • The producer had not seen the film and responds positively to its mix of action and difficult subject matter.
  • Modern difficult-topic awards movies are contrasted as smaller and sadder rather than large star vehicles.
  • Kanye West’s Diamonds from Sierra Leone was the producer’s first exposure to conflict diamonds.
  • A modern Zwick might make a documentary because a hundred-million-dollar studio feature is hard to greenlight.
  • DiCaprio is praised for still using stardom to mount expensive issue-oriented films.
  • The Siege is used to show how quickly current-affairs films can be overtaken by history.
  • Global studios’ need for broadly marketable antagonists is cited as another constraint.
Dumb and Dumber The Rewatchables
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Dumb and Dumber

Most Rewatchable Scene

The airport limo and discovering the suitcase lead a long list

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  • Lloyd’s despair over having no food, jobs, or intact pet is nominated
  • Lloyd selling the headless parakeet to a blind child is nominated
  • The boys-versus-Sea Bass diner sequence is nominated
  • Cam Neely is identified as the Boston Bruins star who played Sea Bass
  • The diner con is identified as a reference to Jeff Daniels in Something Wild
  • Lloyd’s fantasy dinner performance and fight are nominated
  • The hitman road trip and improvised “most annoying sound” are nominated
  • Harry learning Lloyd carried extra gloves throughout the freezing trip is nominated
  • The pair discovering the suitcase money is nominated
  • The Lamborghini, hotel, tuxedo-shopping, and hundred-dollar-bill spree is nominated as a leading stretch
  • The Snow Owl benefit is nominated
  • The snowball fight is nominated
  • The bathroom crisis is nominated as the famous scene
  • The “so you’re telling me there’s a chance” exchange is nominated
  • The airport limo conversation is selected as a favorite scene
  • Discovering the suitcase money and the following hotel-and-benefit run is another favorite stretch
Dumb and Dumber The Rewatchables
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What’s Aged the Best?

Character styling, visual gags, one-liners, and soundtrack

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  • The two leads’ hair and Lloyd’s chipped tooth are praised as defining visual choices
  • The mut-cuts car is praised
  • Seabass’s hat is praised for its subtle slogan
  • The heart-shaped hot tub is praised as a durable movie-hotel image
  • The phone-booth punch is praised
  • The failed 10-to-1 gambling wager is praised
  • Rapid mistaken-word jokes about Aspen, the Monkees, soup du jour, John Deere, Samson, and “rapist wit” are praised
  • The fake nostril mucus is praised
  • The 1994-era soundtrack is praised for holding up
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