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The Color of Money The Rewatchables
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The Color of Money

Half-Assed Internet Research

Oscar recurrence, trick shots, Doom, pool sales, and Scorsese project origin

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  • Newman joined a small group nominated for replaying an earlier role
  • Cruise performed every trick shot except one that would have required two more practice days
  • The video game Doom was reportedly named from Vincent’s line
  • Pool equipment sales reportedly rose after the film
  • Scorsese reportedly became interested in Henry Hill after reading Wiseguy during production
The Color of Money The Rewatchables
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The Color of Money

Apex Mountain

Billiards, Balabushka cues, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and sweater vests

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  • Newman, Cruise, and Scorsese are rejected as apex choices
  • Billiards is assigned an apex for its ESPN visibility
  • Clapton is rejected in favor of his later Unplugged peak
  • Balabushka cues are assigned an apex for the film’s attention
  • Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio is debated against later films and her career path is discussed
  • Sweater vests receive a consensus apex for Newman’s wardrobe
The Color of Money The Rewatchables
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Picking Nits

Eddie’s work and unexplained moral shift

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  • Eddie’s liquor-wholesaling and possible bootlegging business are clarified
  • Eddie’s tournament forfeit and sudden rejection of hustling are criticized as insufficiently dramatized
  • The Amos hustle is defended as a crisis that makes Eddie value excellence and honest victory; his private celebration after beating Vincent demonstrates that change
  • Eddie is interpreted as believing he is in a sports movie while Vincent reveals they remain in a con-man movie
  • The defense is rebutted because Eddie invented and taught the con before abruptly disavowing it
  • Vincent’s claim that Eddie used the young pair is interpreted as Eddie using their journey to rediscover his passion
  • A late-night bar conversation with Helen Shaver is proposed as the missing explanatory scene
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Probably Unanswerable Questions

Vincent’s future, song choices, final match, and relationship

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  • Vincent might return to Child World, become a televised pool star, or be murdered soon
  • The most absurd Chalkies song and best Cruise sing-along are debated; Top Gun wins the latter
  • Leaving the final match unresolved is defended; Vincent is predicted to win
  • Vincent and Carmen are predicted to split through his death or her marriage to a wealthy financier
Trainspotting The Rewatchables
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Trainspotting

Most Rewatchable Scene

Begby and Tommy’s competing bar story is the final choice, with the opening rush, Choose Life, first withdrawal, job interview, London arrival, and final drug deal among the alternatives.

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  • The first forty minutes are treated as a single thrilling rush before the movie turns darker.
  • The ceiling-crawling baby during withdrawal is explicitly rejected as the movie’s most never-watch-again scene.
  • The editor whose name is transcribed as Masahiro Hirocubo is credited with constructing the kinetic opening and a narrative shape from the footage.
  • The Choose Life opening is praised for matching kinetic images to Lust for Life.
  • The monologue continues through the soccer match and rapidly establishes the characters.
  • Renton’s first attempt to quit heroin turns barricades, supplies, voiceover, and an immediate relapse into visual comedy.
  • Spud’s speed-assisted job interview is praised for balancing unemployment requirements against his desire not to be hired.
  • Begby and Tommy’s competing versions of a pub fight win because freeze frames, flashbacks, flash-forwards, theft, and present violence turn exposition into propulsive cinema.
  • The panel’s final scene selection is Begby’s story and Tommy’s competing version of the pub fight.
  • Begby arriving in London and immediately ordering Renton around is praised as his past catching up with him.
  • The final heroin deal with Keith Allen is another favored late sequence.
  • The nightclub and sex montage is praised as funny, energetic filmmaking that briefly gives the women narrative balance.
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