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- Danny Glover and Patti LuPone split the heat-check choices, with Elaine's forceful line supporting LuPone.
Categories & segments
Recasting Couch
Geena Davis; Michelle Pfeiffer considered
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- Geena Davis is supported as alternate Rachel; Pfeiffer is considered but her knowingness may conflict with the role. Lancaster/York is regarded as irreplaceable setting.
Half-Assed Internet Research
Role preparation; barn raising; silo safety; boycott; Kurosawa’s admiration
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- Ford researched Philadelphia homicide while McGillis lived with an Amish widow and seven children; Ford deliberately avoided Amish research to preserve Book's ignorance.
- Character-based excuses for research are compared with Rupert Grint's homework anecdote, followed by sexual jokes.
- The barn raising expanded from a paragraph; the silo actor reportedly had a hidden scuba regulator, prompting concern and jokes about danger.
- An Amish religious-freedom organization reportedly urged boycott; Kurosawa's admiration is celebrated.
Apex Mountain
Amish movie characters; corn silos; sponge baths; evil Danny Glover; Lukas Haas
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- Ford's Apex is tentatively this prestige breakthrough after earlier franchise peaks, because of the Oscar nomination and first-choice status.
- McGillis peaks at Top Gun instead.
- Amish film characters receive an affirmative Apex; evil Philadelphia police remains uncertain.
- Corn silos and sponge baths receive affirmative Apex support; corn generally is less certain.
- The upper-body-only bath and Book's toileting while injured raise practical questions.
- Evil Glover receives affirmative Apex with Shooter an alternative; Godunov peaks at Die Hard.
- Haas receives affirmative acting support then a joking later social-life alternative; train-station murder goes to Blow Out and Mortensen to Aragorn.
- Weir's Apex is Dead Poets Society rather than Witness, given subsequent clout and lasting impact.
Cruise or Hanks?
Cruise; Hanks
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- Cruise and Hanks initially split; Hanks feels more like a Philadelphia cop, and Cruise's existing McGillis chemistry is a drawback.
Scorsese or Spielberg?
Spielberg
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- Spielberg is agreed; a darker Scorsese version intrigues, but the reported rejection is doubted and a supposed personal explanation is a joke.
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- Hoffman could play a younger Eli.
Picking Nits
Gunshot survival and recovery; unheard child; ineffective garage attack; spending criminal proceeds
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- Whether corn would kill is questioned, with suffocation, debris and inability to escape offered in defense; the greenhouse death in another film is compared.
- Racial profiling is objectionable, and surviving blood loss and infection with a poultice strains belief.
- Book's rapid recovery to heavy carpentry, lifting and fighting is implausible.
- The killers should hear Samuel urinating, and his swift evasive instincts are questioned while admired.
- Samuel's unspoiled instincts could explain his quick response to danger.
- McPhee should bring backup and finish the garage attack given the money at stake.
- How corrupt officers could spend such a large fortune without attracting attention is unresolved; retirement or hidden investments are suggested.
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- The film is untouchable: expanding to television would lose its economical tension.
Is This Movie Better With…?
Wayne Jenkins
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- Wayne Jenkins could join the corrupt cops from nearby Baltimore, leading to an imagined impression.
Just One Oscar
Harrison Ford; Best Picture
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- Ford's acting and the film itself split the one-Oscar preferences.
Probably Unanswerable Questions
Jacob’s death; unshown intimacy; later relationships; adapting to Amish life
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Approx. transcript time · 01:36:14Read transcript
- The upper-body-only bath and Book's toileting while injured raise practical questions.
- Jacob's cause of death is unknown; an orchestrated accident is jokingly proposed then doubted because Daniel appears incapable of violence.
- Illness compounded by inadequate treatment is another speculative explanation, with intentionally absurd remedy jokes.
- Sex after the kiss is affirmed on the basis of the screenplay and DVD essay, despite not being shown.
- The location of that intimacy is unknown; grass, a grave, an unfinished barn and the dance barn are imagined alternatives.
- Whether Daniel could satisfy Rachel after Book is questioned.
- Continued contact between Book and Samuel is hoped for and considered likely, with a return visit potentially unsettling the marriage.
- A later letter reporting Eli's death from poor treatment is a joke.
- Living Amish is appealing only in selected respects: Book and fresh food attract, while losing television does not; cream in coffee prompts a digression.
- Electricity, religion, showers, sports and media would obstruct adapting to Amish life; the initial belief there is no coffee is corrected by the movie's coffee scene.
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