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“The Canadian Epstein” — Disgraced fashion mogul Peter Nygard's own SON is helping police investigate his alleged sex crimes
Disgraced fashion mogul Peter Nygard's own SON is helping police investigate his alleged sex crimes By Guy Adams Investigates For The Daily Mail
15 Jan 2021
Link to article 'He has become my arch-nemesis. I no longer regard him as my father . . . He is a monster. I am now here to serve in any way I can, to support survivors and the justice process and also to help expose the people who covered up his crimes.'
Kai Bickle's world came tumbling down one night in May 2019, when he attended a dinner party at a lavishly decorated mansion overlooking the golden sands of Venice Beach in Los Angeles.
The host was his father, Peter Nygard, a Canadian fashion tycoon famed for the hedonistic lifestyle he pursued at a global portfolio of high-end properties, including vast residences in Winnipeg, Toronto and Montreal, as well as New York, and, most notoriously, a Mayan-themed 'private luxury resort' in the Bahamas.
Modelling himself on Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, the flamboyant Nygard, now 79, kept a revolving harem of girlfriends. Those caught up (often completely unwittingly) in this web had included actresses Susan Anton and Jennifer O'Neill, stripper-turned-reality star Anna Nicole Smith, and a former Wheel Of Fortune card turner by the name of Vanna White.
His Caribbean parties, meanwhile, tended to attract a better class of A-lister. Past visitors to the island property had ranged from Jane Seymour and Bo Derek to Robert De Niro, , Michael Jackson and Joan Collins, not to mention and , who were photographed there in the early 2000s on an innocuous family holiday.
The 2019 bash, during one of Peter's occasional business trips to LA, was to be a more down-to-earth affair. Roughly 20 guests, including Kai, 38, and his younger brother Jessar (one of roughly ten offspring Nygard has fathered via more than seven women) had been invited for food and drinks, followed by a late-night poker game.
That was the plan, at least. But Kai never made it to the card- table. Instead, he fled the lavish premises in a state of distress, shortly after dinner, believing that he had just witnessed his father attempting to sexually assault an eight-year-old girl.
Details of this ugly development are (it should be stressed) strongly disputed, and we shall examine them later. But the incident would kick-start an extraordinary chain of events that culminated just before Christmas, with the arrest of Peter Nygard on nine charges of sex trafficking and racketeering.
Currently behind bars, with his $900 million (£660 million) business empire in tatters and the FBI poring over his computer hard-drives, the fallen tycoon has now been accused of rape or sexual assault by at least 57 women. Several of Nygard's accusers were children when the alleged crimes took place, and many claim they were drugged.
At least 57 women have accused him.
He will appear in court in Canada next week, seeking bail as he fights extradition to the USA.
It is, perhaps, the most high-profile and shocking sex case since handcuffs were slapped on Jeffrey Epstein. And in a remarkable twist, it turns out that a leading figure in the increasingly public campaign to prosecute Mr Nygard is his aforementioned son, Kai.
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True Crime Documentary Behind the scenes, I can reveal that Kai has spent the past 18 months secretly helping both the U.S. and Canadian authorities investigate his own father's alleged crimes. Keeping his role hidden from Nygard and his associates for several months, he has worked tirelessly to assist victims, and their legal teams.
On the personal front, he has changed his name (taking up his mother's surname to become Kai Zen Bickle) and used his influence over various Nygard companies to block efforts to move his assets offshore, fearing that would allow him to flee. 'We have been engaged in a brutal battle against my father and his enablers,' is how Kai summed things up when we spoke this week.
'He has become my arch-nemesis. I no longer regard him as my father . . . He is a monster. I am now here to serve in any way I can, to support survivors and the justice process and also to help expose the people who covered up his crimes.'
Perhaps most remarkably of all, Kai recently helped two of his younger siblings, one of whom remains a minor, to sue Peter Nygard over claims he 'engineered' the rape of his own sons. In an extraordinary lawsuit filed in August, the boys claimed that their leathery, multi-millionaire father instructed one of his long-standing girlfriends (who was also a sex worker) to 'make a man' out of them.
The first of these alleged attacks (which, again, are vehemently denied by Nygard) took place in the Bahamas 2004, when the son was 15 and the woman was in her mid-20s. The second occurred in Winnipeg in 2018, when the younger child was 14 and the woman was in her 40s. Court papers filed by the boys stated that the unnamed girlfriend was instructed to seduce Nygard's son by showering in his bathroom so that he 'could see her naked'. Then she raped him.
Afterwards, she allegedly told the boy he 'wasn't bad' for a 'baby.' The next morning, Nygard's girlfriend brought him breakfast in bed, kissing him on the lips and announcing: 'Mommy's got you.' Kai says he first became aware of this appalling incident last spring, and was 'sickened' to hear his brothers' claims.
He would often yell and scream at his staff.
'We all spoke and decided the best course of action was to file a lawsuit publicly in the hope that other survivors would feel safe to come forward and also file criminally against Nygard,' he says. 'We were originally going to have me in the suit as my young brother's guardian, but in the end decided not to because it would reveal to Nygard that I was working against him . . . At the time I was [secretly] doing everything I could to improve the odds that he would get arrested.'
To appreciate the extraordinary journey taken by Kai, we must wind the clock back to the mid-1980s, when his father was one of Canada's most talked-about self-made millionaires.
The son of penniless immigrants from Finland, Peter Nygard had launched his empire in the late 1960s, with an $8,000 (£6,000) investment in a struggling fashion firm. By the time he was 30, the company had become one of North America's most successful suppliers of leisure and sportswear, while his flamboyant eccentricities, which included keeping parrots in his office and filling the lobby of Nygard HQ with bronze busts of himself, turned him into an object of public fascination.
In 1987, the party-loving entrepreneur purchased a 4.5-acre patch of the island of New Providence in the Bahamas and set about turning it into a 'dream home' where he could indulge his champagne lifestyle. Over the ensuing years, he built 150,000 sq ft of Mayan-themed buildings, stretching over a dozen 'cabana-style' residences. The buildings at Nygard Cay eventually included a casino, a disco hut (with cameras beneath the dance floor, reportedly to shoot images of revellers from below), and the world's largest sauna, a 6,000 sq ft lodge made from 2ft-thick Canadian pine logs.
In the grounds were fake volcanoes that belched dry ice, a flock of peacocks, stone cobras which hissed steam at sunset, 60 ft towers festooned with hundreds of flaming torches (lit nightly by staff) and giant statues of nude women, purportedly modelled on some of Nygard's favourite girlfriends.
At weekends, he would host lavish parties, which appeared on various TV documentaries, including Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous.
The place became a magnet for freeloading celebrities and, while Kai believes they generally had the most fleeting and brief relationship with Nygard, photos of their visits were then plastered across company literature and websites.
Prince Andrew, to cite one example, was recorded for posterity wandering with the long-haired fashion magnate on the beach, wearing blue shorts and boat shoes.
Born in the 1980s, Kai spent the first three years of his life in the Bahamas until his mother, Patricia, left Nygard, with whom she'd had three children but never married.
They moved first to California and then to the Pacific Northwest in the U.S. Over subsequent years, he had almost no regular contact with the fashion tycoon aside from occasional visits during school holidays, where he met various half-siblings.
'He would have one family weekend per year at his lake cottage, and a few days set aside for Christmas,' says Kai of the somewhat unorthodox arrangement. 'During those times, the days were filled with activities like horseback riding or mini golf.
'He could be a very charismatic person when he wanted to be and the family weekends were very light and brief.'
In the very limited time he spent with his father during childhood, Kai saw nothing that gave him reason to suspect that Peter Nygard was guilty of criminality, though he did have a highly volatile personality.
'He would yell and scream at his staff often, and that always was upsetting to everyone around it, but he would describe his yelling as 'passion' because of his 'high standards',' Kai says.
Nygard's children were further told that he 'lived a consensual, non-monogamous lifestyle,' Kai says. 'He made speeches at dinner to family when we were together to talk about how he hoped everyone got a wonderful partner and wished that he could find that special someone, but that it wasn't the life for him.
'He also had girlfriends that were persistently with him, always two or three, and often they were around for years. He wasn't embarrassed about it. He flaunted it on TV, it was part of his brand, something he showed the whole world. He was proud of it.'
Be that as it may, rumours of predatory behaviour by Nygard —and worse — had occasionally reared their ugly head, only to be quickly suppressed: a relatively easy task before the internet.
In 1980, for example, he was charged with the rape of an 18-year-old, but the charge was dropped when the complainant refused to testify. In 1996, three female employees meanwhile filed sexual harassment complaints in the Canadian province of Manitoba.
It looked like his hand was on her thigh, rubbing.
One, a 39-year-old communications manager, said that, when called into Nygard's office, she would 'find him in a state of undress . . . with his hands down the front of his pants, fondling himself.' He settled by giving the women $18,500 (£13,600) and denied any wrongdoing.
Then, in 2010, a Canadian TV network put out a Panorama-style documentary about Nygard, focusing on alleged sex abuse and harassment of former employees.
It quoted a former stewardess on his private plane who alleged that on one journey — during which Nygard was accompanied by a troupe of topless women — he lost his temper with staff, shouting: 'You are nothing! You are garbage! I am God!'
The programme also alleged that Nygard had engaged in 'inappropriate sexual contact' with a young woman who had been brought to his home in 2003 from the Dominican Republic. Nygard denied that either incident had happened, and sued to stop the documentary being broadcast.
Fast forward to May 2019, however, and those ugly incidents were largely forgotten. Kai, who was by then in his late 30s, had worked for his father's companies for just over two years after leaving college, but quit to pursue a career in activism and health science.
Nygard's trip to Los Angeles afforded them a rare opportunity to catch up, so he attended the aforementioned dinner party in Venice Beach.
As the night wore on, he recalls becoming uncomfortable about his father's behaviour towards an eight-year-old girl, who was attending with her mother, one of Nygard's old girlfriends.
'He's got her sitting right next to him at dinner, which is usually his girlfriend chair. And he's a creature of routine. So I'm already thinking this is weird.
'He's trying to act like the Papa. It was just weird . . . I'm noticing things. I'm noticing that he's telling her little secrets at dinner. Putting his hand close to her ear and going all hush-hush.' At the end of dinner, most of the other 20-odd guests got up to adjourn to the card table. However, Kai adds: 'I'm still watching him. Her chair gets pushed back. He brings her round to him.
'She was on his right side. He brings her to his left side, with his arm around her waist, and I see his elbow change and start moving as if — it looked to me, I couldn't see, but it looked like his hand was on her upper thigh, and rubbing. That's what it looked like to me . . . Everything in my body told me he was doing something terrible.'
'I had a huge adrenaline rush and I immediately told the mother to get her daughter away from him,' he adds. 'I stood up next to him and looked in his eyes. At that moment, for me, it was like all the walls were crashing down around him . . . And I realised that, yeah, he's probably trying to groom that girl.'
Nygard vigorously denied wrongdoing, and even called Kai 'sick' for thinking as much. But Kai was unconvinced.
Then, in February last year, ten women filed a bombshell lawsuit in New York claiming that the fashion magnate had used wealth and status to 'entice underage girls' from 'young, impressionable and often impoverished backgrounds' into his home, where they would be 'plied with alcohol' and (some allege) date-rape drugs, before being taken to Nygard's private quarters, where he would 'assault, rape and sodomise' them. Court papers claimed they were then coerced into joining a globe-trotting harem of sex workers paid thousands of dollars from Nygard's company funds and trafficked around the world on his company's private jet, which reportedly boasts a stripper pole.
One alleged victim, who was just 14 at the time, claimed Nygard raped her and paid her $5,000 (£3,700).
Another said her encounter with Nygard began with him showing her pornography after which he raped her, 'causing her extraordinary trauma and pain', the suit states.
Three of his existing ten accusers were 14 at the time. Three more were 15.
Within days, dozens more alleged victims had come forward. By the summer, some 57 survivors were pursuing legal action — and the number of alleged victims had reached 100.
Kai again confronted his father, only to be told it was all 'lies' and asked to speak out publicly in his father's support. But days later a friend texted Kai to complain about a recent visit to Nygard's house in Los Angeles.
'He said he'd brought a female friend with him, who had one or two drinks and had started to feel very high. Nygard took her up to his room and aggressively had sex with her, not using a condom.
'When I heard that, I knew he was not only as bad as people said he was, but was a dangerous criminal and had to be stopped.' He duly alerted the authorities about the friend's message. In a podcast called Live To Walk Again, released this week, he revealed that he began helping both the police and the alleged victims' lawyers, who he regards as 'heroes'.
Over the summer, Kai also used official positions held in Nygard firms to block two apparent efforts to move assets overseas, amid concerns that the tycoon might flee to evade justice.
PODCAST EPISODE: Peter Nygard Discusses His Father 'Through the course of ten months I also helped several survivors to file criminally against him, and spent countless hours on the phone with survivors, lawyers and authorities,' he says. Last month Nygard was arrested on U.S. charges at a home in the Royalwood area of Winnipeg. He spent Christmas behind bars and has consistently denied any wrongdoing, saying he 'expects to be vindicated' in court.
Kai has renounced his inheritance and is working on 'making the world a better place' by campaigning to close legal loopholes exploited by sex offenders.
'I'm very happy earning my own money, as I have all my life. We've never had a trust fund or an allowance, and since his money has been made through pain and suffering, I won't accept a potential inheritance,' he says.
His father's cash, he says, should instead go towards compensating victims. 'My focus now is to help the healing process.'
A Cinematic Guide to The Weeknd: Pt 3. My Dear Melancholy and After Hours
 | My Dear Melancholy Gaspar Noe/Cannes Film Festival The My Dear Melancholy era notable for being a time when The Weeknd was in proximity to a lot of serious directors. While he’s had a foot in Hollywood for awhile, 2017 through 2019 he was actively engaging with filmmakers like the Safdies Brothers, Gaspar Noe, and Claire Denis, amongst others. While he had been actively courting the Safdies since Good Time was released, he attended the 2018 Cannes Film Festival where he crossed paths Noe, whose film Climax took home a number awards at Cannes. Noe’s Enter the Void had previously served as an inspiration for Kiss Land, and for MDM (and later After Hours) seem to call back to Noe’s other films, like Irreversible and Love, which are both twisted depictions of heartbreak. On the other hand, Climax is about a French dance troupe who accidentally take LSD, and according to Noe is not a “message” movie. It is an audacious psychedelic technical exercise, with numerous long takes and highly choreographed set pieces. The idea for Noe, who had previously captured the feeling of drugs in previous films, was to do the opposite, and present the objectively reality of drugs, watching people high from a sober perspective. Noe is a rather strong advocate of film, and the opening scene of Climax features VHS boxes of a number of films that have influenced his filmmaking. Two of note are Schizophrenia, otherwise known as Angst, one of Noe’s favorite films which The Weeknd name checked to the Safdies, and Possession, which would go on to be an influence on After Hours (more on this later). He is also said to have sat next to Benicio Del Toro at Cannes, which means he likely caught some of the Un Certain Regard section, where Del Toro served as a jury member. Outside of that section, there were a few other films of interest such as The House That Jack Built from Lars Von Trier (The Weeknd has previously expressed affection for Von Trier’s Antichrist), Mandy from Pastos Costamos, and music video director Romain Gavras’s The World Is Yours, as well as a restoration of 2001: A Space Odyssey, which Noe has referred to as the film that got him into filmmaking. https://preview.redd.it/qga7a3l8ct261.png?width=910&format=png&auto=webp&s=371cf20d42ee8783cc23bfe7f2cfa16a0a927a0e Asian Cinema Later in 2018, The Weeknd continued his globetrotting with a tour of Asia. He once claimed in an interview that whenever visiting a foreign country he only watches films from there. I’ve previously written about the influence of Asian cinema on Kiss Land, and there’s not enough work from the MDM era to glean anything cinematically adjacent to this, but now would be a good time to mention that the "Call Out My Name" video was heavily inspired by the work of famed Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto. The Asian tour poster seems to be a reference to Ichi the Killer, which leads us to Takashi Miike. Though he is notoriously prolific across a number of genres, his most popular works internationally are genre melding blends of horror, comedy and crime, most notably Audition, Ichi the Killer and Gozu. Another film worth mentioning is Perfect Blue, Satoshi Kon’s masterwork about a pop star’s mysterious stalker that The Weeknd posted about on Instagram before. Bloody and haunting, the film was a major influence on Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan and Requiem for a Dream. In Interviews he has also mentioned a number of Korean films, such as The Wailing, I Saw the Devil and Oldboy. While Wong Kar Wai was previously mentioned as an influence on Beauty Behind the Madness, also worth mentioning is the work of John Woo, specifically A Better Tomorrow, well known for the shot of smoking a cigar off money, and Infernal Affairs, Andrew Lau’s crime classic which served has the basis for Scorsese’s The Departed. https://preview.redd.it/fx7o9s2bct261.png?width=642&format=png&auto=webp&s=0fec2f841e9d3b09104238d0f89595daa6140faa https://preview.redd.it/n4x7fiy9ct261.png?width=1316&format=png&auto=webp&s=8a9650263272518216fc5f36913e80a10d2b0a8e After Hours Martin Scorsese While After Hours more so than any other Weeknd album is bursting at the seams with cinematic references, the influence of Martin Scorsese stands above all. Similar to The Weeknd’s body of work, many Scorsese’s are explorations of violence and masculinity, investigating them from a perspective that depending on who you ask (and how they’re feeling) glamorizes, condemns or just simply presents the reality of characters on the fringes of society. While there are direct references to a number of prominent Scorsese films, what’s interesting is that his influence also reverberates in other films/filmmakers that influence After Hours. Todd Phillips’s Joker is in effect an homage to Scorsese’s loner-centric New York films, and the Safdie Brothers have been putting their own millennial spin on the type of 70s gritty thriller that Scorsese trafficked in (Scorsese was also a producer on Uncut Gems). Specific Scorsese works will be discussed more in depth in the requisite sections, but it is worth mentioning upfront what a prominent role that Scorsese plays in the nucleus of After Hours. https://preview.redd.it/wcds9qpdct261.png?width=1196&format=png&auto=webp&s=246c560c72340782e26ad03b8ff63367999eaadd Urban HorroIsolation With After Hours, The Weeknd departs from the slicker sounds and influences that permeated Starboy and returns to the cinematic grittiness of Beauty Behind the Madness. While urban horror is a theme that permeates throughout The Weeknd as a project overall, there is a thorough line to be drawn here that follows a number of 70s and 80s cinematic and aesthetic references. For one thing, while the initial bandaged nose was a reference to Chinatown (previously, The Weeknd has a Kiss Land demo titled "Roman Polanski"), the full bandaged face that is so prominently featured throughout the After Hours era is a classic cinematic visual trope that was especially prominent throughout 60s and 80s, though it saw a slight re-emergence in the 2010s. The fully bandaged face is often used to remake someone in the image of another, usually against their will ( The Skin I Live In, Eyes Without Face), or as a case of mistaken identity and doppelgängers ( Good Night Mommy, Scalpel), themes present throughout much of After Hours. The "Too Late" video acknowledges these references, but instead presents the bandages on two Los Angeles models recovering from plastic surgery, in a nod to a famous Steven Meisel’s photoshoot for Vogue Italia. https://preview.redd.it/dtbxjc3ict261.png?width=900&format=png&auto=webp&s=66a98cc3cba73d502f8586a215a65cc41c5408a1 The “masks” people wear is another horror trope that is featured prominently on After Hours, and this is best seen in the red suit character. One important reference in the film is to Brian De Palma’s Dressed To Kill, where a serial killer is targeting the patients of a psychiatrist (any more on this film will veer towards spoiler territory). The Weeknd is on the record as saying Jim Carrey’s The Mask as being a large influence on the Red Suit character, it being one of the first film’s he watched in theaters. One of the more complex references would be to Joker. While it sort of an in-joke that the character of the Joker is commonly overanalyzed and misinterpreted, referencing Todd Phillips’s Joker is more nuanced because it is in essence a full on homage to Martin Scorsese’s New York films, most notably Taxi Driver and The King of Comedy, which focus on eccentric loners, and can both be seen as cautionary tale of urban isolation, a theme explored perhaps in songs like "Faith." The King of Comedy revolves around a would be obsessive stand up Rupert Pupkin haggling his way to perform on late night TV, with The Weeknd’s talk show appearances being a prominent part of the early After Hours marketing, most notably in the “short film”. This idea of isolated and compressed urbanites recurs throughout After Hours and it’s films. https://preview.redd.it/egap17ttdt261.png?width=900&format=png&auto=webp&s=1aab204ac0845a7df74ceeff6d1f714274f9ace0 The idea of urban repression is in the subway scene of the After Hours short film. The entire film itself is something of a reference to the subway scene to Possession (another Gaspar Noe favorite), mimicking the (also subway set) scene in which Isabelle Adjani’s Anna convulses on the subway due to a miscarriage, as well as Jacob’s Ladder, a 90s cult classic horror film starring Tim Robbins as a Vietnam vet (like Taxi Driver’s Travis Bickle) who is experiencing demonic hallucinations, encountering them in the subway and later at a party he attends, splitting the scene into two. https://preview.redd.it/g53copgmct261.png?width=900&format=png&auto=webp&s=9d29e368ae695d295b36039e86125ccfd7b4eb88 Las Vegas As always, The Weeknd once again grounds After Hours with a strong sense of place, this time setting the album against a nocturnal odyssey through Las Vegas. One of the most prominent films is Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Terry Gilliam’s adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s book. This is directly referenced in the "Heartless" video, which sees The Weeknd and Metro Boomin in the Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro roles as they tumble through a Las Vegas casino. The Weeknd has gone on the record to state that the famous red suit character was influenced by Sammy Davis Jr.’s character in the film Poor Devil. However, similar red suit has also been sported by a number of Vegas characters, most notably Richard Pryor and Robert De Niro’s Sam Rothstein in Martin Scorsese’s Casino. With the red suit, The Weeknd seems to be playing with the idea of a devil-ish other, another side of his personality that emerges in Las Vegas. https://preview.redd.it/gjow6hq2dt261.png?width=1992&format=png&auto=webp&s=10a379bc26df54af88064bf64813d5cdd29775d9 While the city lights are the oft discussed part of part of Las Vegas, it should be noted that similar to Beauty Behind the Madness, the desert that surrounds Las Vegas is just as important to the juxtaposition of its beauty. The "Until I Bleed Out" video ends/"Snowchild" video in the desert, similar to the confrontation between Robert De Niro’s and Joe Pesci’s showdown in the desert in Casino, as well as Joe Pesci's death in Goodfellas. The idea of a hedonistic desert playground also bears semblance to Westworld, both the film and the TV show. The desert seems to represent some sort of freedom to The Weeknd, as the "Snowchild" video portrays the desert as a pensive location for reflection, as well as the "In Your Eyes" video showing the girl prominently dancing with the dismembered head out in the open, in reference to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, another prominent desert film. https://preview.redd.it/98ec10wxct261.png?width=1168&format=png&auto=webp&s=45e29aa361fa41ff74e2a6017e203015bdcbc6c3 New York/The Safdies Despite it’s Las Vegas setting, After Hours also takes a good amount from films set in New York, most notably Martin Scorsese’s 1983 film After Hours. Besides the title, After Hours is similarly about a twisting and turning nighttime odyssey. The film stars Griffin Dunne as Paul, a working class stiff who heads downtown to rendezvous with a woman he met at a diner earlier that night. Of course, things don’t turn out the way they should, chaos ensues, and Paul is set on a dangerous trek back uptown. Like the film, the album After Hours is set off by a woman (though the album takes more stock in romantic endeavors), seems to be set over a single night (or at least a condensed period of time), and involves similar chaos and misadventures (sirens at night at the end of Faith). Tonally, After Hours the film is more comedic perhaps than After Hours the album, however The Weeknd is on the record as having said that "Heartless" and "Blinding Lights" placement on the album is intended to be somewhat comedic, reflecting exaggerated machismo and ecstasy, respectively (to comedic effect). https://preview.redd.it/f3w7yz4pdt261.png?width=1346&format=png&auto=webp&s=fe7e4f003987fd843020a42a5b53f94092984267 Another of the most prominent filmmakers of After Hours are the Safdies, who featured The Weeknd in Uncut Gems. They also served as a link to Oneohtrix Point Never, who scored their last two films and later worked After Hours. I believe there are three major film tropes (not genres) that inspired After Hours, all of which the Safdies’s have engaged with. There is the one-long-night films, in which a character spends one-long-night on the run from whatever chaos and forces may be that they left in their path. This can be seen in the Good Time, as well as After Hours (the movie). Then, there is the descent-into-madness type, where a character slowly loses grip with reality and ends up in over their head (something like Scarface or Breaking Bad, but for our purposes Jacob’s Ladder can be categorized here as well), which the Safdies did with Uncut Gems. Lastly, but maybe most importantly, the Safdies also explored toxic romance (more on this later) in their less seen film Heaven Knows What, about two heroin addicts and the destructiveness their love brings out in each other, an idea that recurs throughout After Hours on songs like "Until I Bleed Out" and "Nothing Compares." A recurring song throughout Heaven Knows What is Isao Tomita’s synth version of Debussy’s "Claire De Lune", which is featured in some episodes of Memento Mori and bears some resemblance to the start of "Alone Again". https://preview.redd.it/em255b5qdt261.png?width=1344&format=png&auto=webp&s=a5226c9496d0ae5c14b6d6c05e16f5ea18678a9a Obsession/Toxic Romance While love and lust and the ups and downs with it have been a formative part of The Weeknd’s ideology and themes, I don’t think it would be remiss to say that After Hours is perhaps his most outwardly romantic album. Despite this, one of the major arcs of the album is toxicity that comes with it, which a number of already mentioned films deal with. While "In Your Eyes" is one of the more romantic and accessible songs on the album, a re-assessment of it Ala Sting’s “Every Breathe You Take” could frame it as lonely obsessing, such as Travis Bickle’s infatuation with Jodie Foster’s teenage prostitute Iris, Joker's fixation on Murray Franklin, Rupert Pupkin’s obsession with Jerry Langford. Casino also deals with toxic romance, another prominent theme in After Hours, best seen in the love triangle that forms between Sam, his partner Nicky and his wife Ginger, played by Joe Pesci and Sharon Stone respectively. https://preview.redd.it/eq1ioijvdt261.png?width=898&format=png&auto=webp&s=f9e4b781ee60762ae767c4dbd92066357ebc24b0 In almost all of the After Hours’s video content, The Weeknd seems to constantly meet his demise at the hands of women. Another interesting reference that may be something of a reach is to Phantom Thread, Paul Thomas Anderson’s film about Reynolds Woodcock, a couture dressmaker loosely based on Cristobal Balenciaga and his muse Alma, played by Daniel Day Lewis and Vicky Krieps, respectively. The film delves into their dysfunctional relationship, with Woodcock berating her and Alma poisoning his tea to keep him dependent on her. One of the highpoint of the film is a New Years Eve Party that bears strong resemblance to the "Until I Bleed Out" video. While the balloons may just be a callback to his earlier work, there is something about the color grading/temperature and the production design of the "Until I Bleed Out" video (as well as parts of the "Blinding Lights" video) that made me immediately think of Phantom Thread. A similar relationship is seen in the German horror film Der Fan, which The Weeknd has mentioned in a recent interview. In Der Fan, a young girl Simone spends her days obsessing over popstar R, until she finally encounters him outside his studio. The film is similar to the aforementioned Takashi Miike’s Audition in its exploration of obsession and idealization. In the film, an older man puts up a fake casting call to search for the perfect girlfriend. While Audition explores these themes from an Eastern perspective of societal pressure, Der Fan explores it through a Western lens of pop idolization and idealization. Both films deal with the idea that despite outward appearances, the perfect partner does not exist, and anyone that claims to be (or has the expectations put on them) is not who they seem. https://preview.redd.it/3m661q62et261.png?width=1342&format=png&auto=webp&s=c9377018cb53f67cf7ce95b24392afb471e4aec1 One film he has spoken at length about is Trouble Everyday, Claire Denis’s arthouse vampire movie. The film stars Vincent Gallo as Shane, a scientist who travels to Paris under the guise of his honeymoon to track down core, a woman who he was once obsessed with who has now become a vampire. Core is locked up in a basement but sometimes sneaks out to seduce and consume unwilling victims. This seems to be where some of the bloody face stuff comes from, but I believe it’s influence is a little more conceptual. To me, a good companion film to Trouble Everyday is American Psycho, which seems to also have been a thematic influence on After Hours. Both films concern idealized version of masculinity and femininity, both very sexual and physical, but hostile as well. American Psycho ends with Patrick Bateman confessing to the killing of a prostitute, but no one believe him. Trouble Everyday ends with Shane killing Core, but Shane is unable to arouse himself after that except through violence. Koji Wakamatsu, a former Yakuza turned prominent extreme Japanese filmmaker (and a major influence on Gaspar Noe) is quoted as saying “For me, violence, the body and sex are an integral part of life.” Despite being hollow, idealized impressions of the self, a vampire and as a banker (cold, seductive bloodsuckers = monsters), Patrick Bateman and Core represent the Frankenstein-ian relationship between sexuality and violence, which I believe is the main theme of After Hours. Truly, we hurt the ones we love. https://preview.redd.it/zfllbd83et261.png?width=900&format=png&auto=webp&s=9c048ee98d86d7bbb9db67fa8302d34c36214c4f Postscript To cap things off, I would just like to illuminate some key takeaways. As a filmmaker myself, this has been an extremely helpful exercise in understanding other artists process and ideas. Steeped in the history of the medium… It’s clear that The Weeknd is not your typical “I’m influenced by cinema” artist but an extremely legit film buff with serious credentials. The Weeknd’s film taste leans towards 70s-00s genre works, mostly horror, drama and thriller, and is well versed in the classics but also has the nose to sniff out deeper cuts and obscurities. The mantra of “good artists borrow, great artists steal” works even better if not many people know where you’re stealing from! What is impressive to me is that he is not just versed in “mainstream” obscurities, but also serious deep cuts. Films like Possession and Phantom of the Paradise may not stick out to the average person on the street but are well known in most film circles. Films like Inland Empire and New Rose Hotel ( Der Fan was especially impressive to me, it is one of my favorite films) however are not as well known and it is very impressive to me that he can come across films like that, and really get enough out of it to bring into his own work. …is able to interpolate contemporary/mainstream films… This perhaps is one of the most impressive aspects of his integration of film into The Weeknd’s work. It is very easy for film buffs to get lost within their own obscure taste, living in a world where everyone is an idiot for not knowing who Shinya Tsukamoto. Trilogy and Kiss Land had a lot of contemporary obscurities, like Stalker, David Lynch etc., well known but they still existed as artifacts, not of the time we live in. However, perhaps picking something from his work on Fifty Shades of Grey, of late he has kept his finger on the zeitgeist and anticipated/integrated what the filmmakers of today are doing, such as his work on Black Panther and Game of Thrones, general appreciation of Tarantino, the works of Nicolas Winding Refn in Starboy, and his use of the Joker and Uncut Gems on After Hours, both of which came out just a few months before the album. It feels Jackson-esque, and I believe this is one thing that will help him further in his quest for pop stardom. …while also being fully in tune to the works of modern transgressive auteurs… In addition to keeping up with the mainstream is in touch with, The Weeknd also makes it a point to seek out and learn from the cutting edge filmmakers of today. While the Safdies were always going to blow up, I don’t doubt that a Weeknd co-sign accelerated their rise. Gaspar Noe is one thing, Enter the Void and Irreversible exist as masterpieces of the mainstream obscurities I’ve been mentioning, but he really truly tries to understand the heart of Noe’s work, even going so far back as to understand Noe’s influences (I sincerely hope he is tuned in to the work of Koji Wakamatsu). But most of all, to be a fan of Claire Denis is one thing, but to seek her out and make her an offer that she ACCEPTED is absolutely astounding to me. Just spitballing but it would be like if Michael Jackson shot a music video with Rainer Werner Fassbinder (who I’d bet good money that The Weeknd was put on to by Noe). We can only PRAY that one day we will be blessed with a David Lynch Weeknd video. --------------------------- …and that just about does it. Hope you enjoyed this and thanks for being patient with me. I got quite busy after the first two and had my own projects/work going that kept me occupied. As we’re still technically in the After Hours era, I also wanted to wait until a few more videos and interviews came out to aid me in my research. I also wanted to find enough time to make the Letterboxd for this. I personally don’t love Letterboxd culture, I find the popular culture surrounding the site a bit snobbish and exclusive, but I’ve gotten a number of requests for one and you gotta give the people what they want. Throughout the list are a few films that he hasn’t mentioned but are some of my personal favorites and I believe Weeknd fans will like, I encourage you to accidentally stumble upon things on it. Don't overthink, just pick something and watch! If you’d like to follow me further, you can find me on Instagram here, where I post about film reviews Letterboxd style. I prefer Instagram so that more average people see it instead of an echo chamber of film snobs. I am also a filmmaker myself, I just recently wrapped this short film and am currently in the process of putting together my next project. The main reason I did this however, besides a general appreciation of The Weeknd’s work, was to put more people on to the beautiful art form that is cinema. One thing I learned from Scorsese is that one must be an advocate and truly champion your medium. I hope that this encourages to check out more interesting movies than they wouldn’t normally come across, and I hope this will inspire more people to create more as well, whether it be to write, make films, music, anything. If even one person picks up a pencil, a camera or a keyboard because of these posts, I will be satisfied. Thanks all! |
Goodfellas turns 30 this year! Here are 40 interesting pieces of fact and trivia about the classic mob movie
You can check out a video version of this here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OQkxioCNrw&t=3s 1 The first scene shot in the film was Morrie’s wig commercial, directed by Stephen R Pacca, who owned a window replacement company and directed and ran a similar ad in New York City that Scorsese was inspired by
2 When Jimmy is handing out money to everyone, Robert De Niro, ever the perfectionist, didn’t like how the fake money felt in is hands. He wanted real cash to be used, so the props master gave De Niro $5000 of his own money. No one was permitted to leave the set at the end of each take until the money was returned to the props man and counted.
3 Sticking with De Niro being a sticker for authenticity, according to the real-life Henry Hill, the protagonist of the movie, De Niro would phone him 7 or 8 times a day, wanting to discuss minute details of his character, even ow he would hold his cigarettes.
4 The classic Funny how scene is based on an occurrence which actually happened to Joe Pesci. When he was working in a restaurant years ago, he complimented a gangster by telling him he was funny, but the remark was met with a less than impressed response. Pesci told this to Scorsese, who implemented it into the film, and the scene was directed by Pesci himself and not included in the shooting script of the film, meaning his and Ray Liotta’s interactions would elicit genuine reactions from the supporting cast.
5 Henry Hill said that Joe Pesci’s portrayal of Tommy was 90 to 99% accurate. The only exception was that the real Tommy was a much larger and powerfully built man.
6 Veteran actor Al Pacino, who director Martin Scorsese wanted to work with for years and who he would later work with in The Irishman, was offered the role of Jimmy Conway. Pacino turned it down, for fear of being typecast as a gangster actor. He would go on to regret this decision.
7 Much has been made about real life mob involvement in the making of Goodfellas, from Robert De Niro attempting to contact the real-life Jimmy Burk, to Scorsese hiring background actors with real life mafia connections, such as Tony Sirico, who would later find fame playing Paulie Walnuts in The Sopranos. According to Nicholas Pileggi, author of the book Wiseuy upon which Goodfellas is based, there were several mobsters hired as extras in order to add authenticity to the film. They provided the studio with fake social security numbers, and as such it is unknown how they were paid.
8 Ray Liotta’s mother died whilst the movie was being filmed, and Liotta used his emotions over his mother’s death in his performance, most notably in the scene where he pistol whips another man.
9 When Joe Pesci’s mother saw the film, his real life mother, she liked it, but questioned her son if he had to swear so much. 5 years later in Casino Catherine Scorsese, who played Pesci’s mother in Goodfellas, complains to her son in Casino about swearing too much.
10 The painting of the two dogs and the man in the boat that Pesci’s mother in the film paints was actually painted by Nicholas Pileggi
11 The Lufthansa heist, which plays a major part of the movie, did not have its case solved and closed until 2014, and most of the surviving participants were arrested.
12 When Henry Kill is introducing mobsters to us in the bar, one of them is a character named Fat Andy. This character is played by Louis Eppolito, Eppolito was at the time a former NYPD detective whose father, uncle and cousin were in the mob. 15 years after the release of Goodfellas, Eppolito, along with his police partner, were arrested and charged with racketeering, obstruction of justice, extorsion, and up to 8 murders. They were both given life sentences, with an added 80 years each.
13 The F word and its derivatives are used 321 times in the film, at an average of 2.04 per minute, and almost half of them are said by Joe Pesci. At the time it was made, Goodfellas held the record for the most amount of profanity in a single film.
14 The scene where the three main characters eat with Tommy’s mother was almost completely improvised by the cast, including Tommy asking his mother if he could borrow a butcher’s knife and Jimmy’s remark about the animal’s hoof. Scorsese did not tell his mother tat Pesci’s character had just violently beaten a man, only that he was home for dinner and that she was to cook for them.
15 The real life Jimmy, along with Paulie whose death is mentioned in the film, also died in prison in 1996. He would have been eligible for parole in 2004.
16 Paul Sorvino wanted to drop out of the role as Paulie just three days before filming was schedule to start, as he felt he lack the cold personality to play the role correctly. After phoning his agent and asking him to release in from the film, his agent told him to think it over for a while. Later that night, Sorvino was practicing in the mirror and made a face that even frightened himself, and he was convinced that he would be able to play the role.
17 According to film legend, the real life Jimmy Burke was so trilled that Robert De Niro was playing him in the movie, that he phoned up De Niro from prison and gave him advice. This is something denied by Nicolas Pileggi
18 Even though Joe Pesci was in his fourties during the filming of Goodfellas, the real life inspiration for his character was in his 20 when the events of the film took place. Scorsese was initially concerned with Pesci being too old to play the role of Tommy, and Pesci sent him a video of him walking
19 Nicolas Pileggi spoke to Henry Hill throughout the script writing process, and he says much of the voice over narration in the film are almost exact quotes from Liotta himself
20 According to Debi Mazar, Henry Hill’s girlfriend in the film, when she trips after meeting Henry she actually tripped over the camera’s dolly track. Scorsese kept it in the film because it looked like her character was overwhelmed by Henry.
21 One of the daughters of Ray Liotta and Lorraine Bracco’s characters, the one too shy to give Paulie a kiss when he visits their home, is actually the daughter of Harvey Keitel, with whom Braco had the child.
22 In order to better get into character, when driving to and from the set Ray Liotta would often listen to tapes of interviews Pileggi had with the real Henry Hill. Liotta noted that Hill spoke casually of murders and other serious crimes whilst eating potato chips.
23 After seeing the film, Henry Hill thanked Liotta for not making him look like an asshole. Ray Liotta response was to think to himself “did you even watch the movie?”
24 The famous long take of the Copacabana took just 7 to 8 takes to get right
25 Henry Hill’s life after he went into the witness protection program was adapted into a movie released the same year as Goodfellas – called My Blue Heaven. Nicholas Pilei’s wife wrote the script for the film.
26 According to Scorsese, legendary actor Marlon Brando attempted to persuade him to not make the movie.
27 The real life Henry Hill was paid around half a million dollars for the movie.
28 Robert De Niro was offered the roles of both Jimmy and Tommy. He chose the former.
29 Despite it’s status as a classic, Goodfellas only won one Oscar. And its winner, Joe Pesci, was so surprised, that his winning speech was one of the shortest in Oscar history, simply saying, “it’s my privilege, thank you”
30 Frank Vincent, the man who plays Billy Batts and is beaten and stabbed to death by Joe Pesci, and who also starred with Pesci in two other Scorsese films – Ragin Bull and Casino - actually has a long history with Pesci. The two used to be bandmates and a comedy duo in the late 60s. They also starred in the low budget 1976 mafia film The Death Colelctor, where they were spotted by Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese, and eventually hired for their roles in Raging Bull.
31 The producer’s original choices for the roles of Henry and Karen were Tom Cruise and Madonna.
32 Paul Sorvini improvised the slap that his character gives Henry in the scene where Paulie confronts Henry about drug dealing
33 In the original shooting script of the film, the Billy Batts shinebox scene was the very first scene in the film, followed by the dinner at Tommy’s mother’s house. Then Liotta would say the phrase “As far back as I can remember I always wanted to be a gangster” and the movie would show his youth and growing up.
34 Early screenings of Goodfellas were met with poor reception. According to Pileggi, one screening had around 70 people walk out, and in another the film’s team had to hide at a local bowling alley as a result of an audience angry at the film’s level of violence.
35 In spite of the film’s violent reputation, there are only 5 on screen deaths
36 When Spider is shot by Tommy, Michael Imperioli broke a glass in his hand and had to be rushed to hospital. But when he got there, the doctors attempted to treat his apparent gunshot wound. When the actor revealed what his real injury was, he was made to wait for 3 hours in the emergency room. Scorsese told Imperioli that he would tell this story one day on the tonight show with Jay Leno, a prediction which cam true in 2000.
37 US attorney Edward McDonald, the fed who explains the ins and outs of the witness protection programme to Henry Hill and his wife, is actually playing himself in this scene, re-enacting the conversation he had with the real Henry Hill. McDonald volunteered to play the role and won a screen test when Scorsese was location scouting his office as a possible filming location.
38 The movie ends with Henry in the witness protection program, but after the film’s release, as a result of violating his terms and conditions, including going around and telling people who he was, Henry Hill was thrown out of the programme.
39 Henry requests that he isn’t sent anywhere cold when g egos into the programme. In the ending of the film, he picks up a newspaper for Youngstown in Ohio, a place which has below freezing temperaturs in winter, suggesting that Henry’s wish was not granted.
40 The film’s ending, where Joe Pesci fires several bullets staring at the camera, is a homage to the landmark 1903 short film The Great Train Robbery, widely considered one of the first narrative pictures. Scorsese saw his movie as part of a tradition of outlaws in American pop culture and noted that, in spite of the fact tat the two films are separated by almost a century, according to the man himself, “they’re essentially the same story.”
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There was a song on a black-themed website that was like chillstep that included several movie quotes. Back when I heard it there was no such music like youtube's Chilledcow. I don't remember any quote movie line MAYBE one of the quotes was one from Robert De Niro's Casino.
I remember I used to visit this website only to listen to this song back in 2004 or around that .
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A full list of Mandela Effects that have affected me personally.
I have intentionally left out geography locations and flip flops. I posted this list about 8months ago but its dissapeared from my reddit app but still on if i go on the web page for some reason so this list is mainly for me to keep a record and share my experiences so far , enjoy :-)
1.) N.A.S.A. - North American Space Agency > National Aeronautics And Space Administration
2.) Dr Doolittle > Dr Dolittle
3.) Vasoline > Vaseline
4) SEAN William Scott > Seann William Scott
5.) Hellman's > Hellmann's
6.) Gravy GRANUALS > Granules
7.) Rizzla > Rizla
8.) Creation Of Adam - God's Hand Reaching Down > God's Hand Level With Adam's.
9.) Mona Lisa Not Smiling > Smiling
10.) Ford Logo - F has straight crosspoint > curl on crosspoint.
11.) 1 Moon Landing > 6 Moon Landing's
12.) Karma Sutra > Kama Sutra
13.) Macdonalds > McDonald's
14.) Lion's Can Roar > Lion's Can't Roar
15.) Lion's King Of The Jungle > Tiger's K.O.T.J.
16.) The Diary Of Anne Frank > Diary Of A Young Girl
17.) Statue Of Liberty - Ellis Island > Liberty Island
18.) Marshmellow > Marshmallow
19.) Mary Poppins - Spoonful Of Sugar HELPS The Medicine Go Down > MAKES The Medicine Go Down
20.) Capricorn Sign - A Goat > A Goat Fish
21.) Ford KIA > KI^
22.) Phillips TV > Philips
23.) Little Tykes > Little Tikes
24.) nintendo > Nintendo
25.) Donna Summers > Donna Summer
26.) Doc Martins > Doc Martens
27.) Fabreeze > Febreze
28.) Large HALDRON Collider > Hadron
29.) TOBASCO sauce > Tabasco
30.) HILARY Clinton > Hillary
31.) Chilli > Chili
32.) SAMSUNG > SMSUNG
33.) iPhone > IPhone
34.) Hello Clarice > Good Morning Clarice
35.) E.T. - Opening Credits WHITE > Purple
36.) Goodfellas - Opening Credits WHITE > Red
37.) Wheatabix > Weetabix
38.) Rice CRISPIES > Rice Krispies
39.) Great Pyramid - 4 Sides > 8 Sides
40.) Great Pyramid - Centre > On The Right
41.) Stomach Where The Belly Button Is > Bottom Of Rib Cage
42.) Heart On Left > Left Centre
43.) Committed > Commited
44.) Dilemna > Dilemma
45.) Pajamas > Pyjamas
46.) Griffindor > Gryffindor
47.) T2 - JUDGEMENT Day > Judgment day
48.) I'll Huff And I'll Puff And I'll Blow Your House DOWN > Blow Your House In
49.) MIRROR ,Mirror On The Wall > Magic Mirror
50.) Who's The Fairest Of Them All > One Of All
51.) ' You Want The Truth, You Can't Handle The Truth ' > ' You Can't Handle The Truth '
52.) Sherbert > Sherbet
53.) Buisness > Business
54.) Brussel Sprouts > Brussels Sprouts
55.) Anatomy - Small 1 Piece Liver > Large 2 Lobe Liver
56.) Bill Haley And The Comets > His Comets
57.) Tony The Tiger - Black Nose > Blue Nose
58.) Burma > Myanmar
59.) Film - Jupiter Rising > Jupiter Ascending
60.) Mr Moneybags > Rich Uncle Pennybags
61.) Monopoly - Monacle > No Monacle
62.) Chumbawumba > Chumbawamba
63.) Cruella Deville > Cruella De Vil
64.) ' Take my Strong Hand ' > ' Little Hand '
65.) ' I See White People ' > ' I See Dead People '
66.) Keenan & Kel > Kenan & Kel
67.) ' The Names Bond, James Bond ' > My names Bond, James Bond
68.) Seperate > Separate
69.) Lay-Z-Boy > La-Z-Boy
70.) Jim Carey > Jim Carrey
71.) Cadbury's > Cadbury
72.) Malteasers > Maltesers
73.) First Bond Film - Casino Royale > Dr No
74.) Easter Island Statues - No Hats > Hats
75.) Cindy Doll > Sindy Doll
76.) Laughing Cow - Gold Nose Ring and Gold Earrings > Cheese Wheel Earrings
77.) Carribean > Caribbean
78.) Thinker Statue - Hand On Head > On Chin
79.) Tweedledee & Tweedledum - Propellars On Hats > Tweedledum & Tweedledee - Flags On Hats
80.) Roy Schneider > Roy Scheider
81.) Julius Ceasar > Caesar
82.) Morpheus - ' What If I Told You ' > Not Said
83.) Shaggy's Adam's Apple > No Adam's Apple
84.) Phrase - ' For all Intensive Purposes ' > ' For All Intents And Purposes '
86.) Beckon Call > Beck and Call
87.) Tender Hooks > Tenter Hooks
88.) Madeline McCann > Madeleine McCann
89.) Tumeric > Turmeric
90.) Iburofen > Ibuprofen
91.) Bud Lite > Bud Light
92.) Green Mile mouse - Mr Bojangles > Mr Jingles
93.) Spiderman > Spider-Man
94.) Amelia Earhardt > Amelia Earhart
95.) My True Love GAVE To Me > Sent to me
96.) Quote : ' That's Not A Knife, THIS Is A Knife > That's A Knife
97.) Phrase- Chomp At The Bit > Champ At The Bit
98.) Phrase - All The Range > All The Rage
99.) Whacky Races ' Catch The Pigeon ' > ' Stop The Pigeon '
100.) Kit-Kat > Kit Kat
101.) Warewolf > Werewolf
102.) Wilderbeast > Wildbeest
103.) D.E.A. - Drug Enforcement Agency > Drug Enforcement Administration
104.) Jackson 5 - 5 Members > 7 Members
105.) Term - Card Shark > Card Sharp
106.) Song Lyrics : ' What Is Love, BABY Don't Hurt Me > Lady Don't Hurt Me
107.) Song Lyrics : ' I'm A Barbie Girl, In A Barbie World > The Barbie World
108.) Oliver : ' Please Sir, CAN I HAVE some more > I want some more
109.) Nikolai Tesla > Nikola Tesla
110.) Erwin Schröedinger > Schrödinger
111.) Hanna Barberra > Hanna-Barbera
112.) Frankenstein - ' HE'S Alive ' > It's Alive
113.) Glenfell Tower > Grenfell Tower
114.) Donald Duck - Neck Kerchief > Red Bow Tie
115.) Ficus Plant > Ficus Tree
116.) Margerine > Margarine
117.) Barbeque > Barbecue
118.) Daylight Savings Time > Daylight Saving Time
119.) Sweets - Tootie Frooties > Tootie Fruities
120.) TV Show - Barbaar The Elephant > Babar The Elephant
121.) Cat Food - Whiskers > Whiskas
122.) Klu Klux Klan > Ku Klux Klan
123.) Baron Trump > Barron Trump
124.) Inspector Gadget - Mustache > No Mustache
125.) Henry VIII - Holding Turkey Leg > Not Holding Turkey Leg
126.) Guinness Book Of Records > Guinness World Records
127.) Plane Engines under wing > Engines In Front Of Wing
128.) Dracula - ' I Want To Suck Your Blood ' > Never Said
129.) Scooby Doo - ' We Would Of Gotten Away With It Too, If It Weren't For Those Meddling Kids ' > Never Said
130.) Toys R Us > Toys (Reverse R) Us
131.) Song Lyric : ' RIDING In A One Horse Open Sleigh ' > Gliding In A One Horse ....
132.) Song Lyrics : ' 3 Little Birds, Sat On My Window ' > ' ... Birds , Pitched By My Doorstep '
133.) Song Title - Country Roads > (Take Me Home) Country Roads
134.) ' MERRY Christmas To All And To All A Good Night ' > Happy Christmas To All....
135.) The Grinch Who Stole Christmas > How The Grinch Stole Christmas
136.) Forrest Gump - ' I MAY Not Be A Smart Man, But I Know What Love Is ' > I'm Not A Smart Man..
137.) Meatloaf > Meat Loaf
138.) Barbara Streisand > Barbra Streisand
139.) Tinkerbell > Tinker Bell
140.) Grease Lightning > Greased Lightnin'
141.) WE'RE Gonna Need A Bigger Boat > You're
142.) Selsum Blue > Selsun Blue
143.) Song Lyrics : ' You've Been STRUCK By A Smooth Criminal ' > ' ... Hit By A Smooth Criminal '
144.) Robert Deniro > Robert De Niro
145.) Mother Theresa > Mother Teresa
146.) Cadbury's CREAM Egg > Creme Egg
147.) Absolute Vodka > Absolut Vodka
148.) Song Lyrics : ' How Deep Is Your Love, I Really NEED TO KNOW ' > ' ... Mean To Learn '
149.) Innoculate > Inoculate
150.) Harry Houdini Died Whilst Performing A Magic Trick > Appendicitus In Hospital
151.) Gobstoppers > Gobstopper
152.) Zapruder Film Originally In Black And White > Doesn't Exist
153.) J.F.K. - 4 Seater - 6 Seater
154.) An Interview With A Vampire > ..The Vampire
155.) Michaelangelo > Michelangelo
156.) Cheez Itz > Cheez It
157.) King Tut's Mask - 1 Snake > 2 Snakes
158.) King Tut - 12yr Old When He Died > 19yrs
159.) Jimmy Saville > Savile
160.) Bruce Lee Shot Dead On Set > Died In Hospital With Cerebral Edema
161.) WW1 : 1914 - 1919 > 1914 - 1919
162.) CD+R > Never Existed
163.) Barrack Obama > Barack Obama
164.) Macintosh > McIntosh
165.) Seasame Street > Sesame Street
166.) Big Bird All Yellow > Orange Legs, White Fringe
167.) Jungle Book - ' I Couldn't Be Fonder Of My New Home ' > ' I Couldn't Be Found Of My Home '
168.) Alex The Kidd > Alex Kidd In Miracle World
169.) Acknowledgement > Acknowledgment
170.) Dan Ackroyd > Dan Aykroyd
171.) Courtney Cox > Courteney Cox
172.) Film Title : They Live ! > They Live
173.) Alfa Romero > Alfa Romeo
174.) Tumeric > Turmeric
175.) Doughnuts > Donuts
176.) Toby Maguire > Tobey Maguire
177.) Moby Dick > Moby-Dick
178.) Brylcream > Brylcreem
179.) Heart The Size Of 1 Fist > 2 Fists
180.) Movie Title : Fists Of Fury > Fist Of Fury
181.) Willy Wonka's Hat - Purple > Brown
182.) Willy Wonka Quote : ' You Do know What Happened To The BOY Who Got Everything He Ever Wanted, Don't You? ' > ' Don’t forget what happened to the MAN who suddenly got everything he wanted. '
183.) Life IS Like A Box Of Chocolates > Life WAS Like A Box Of Chocolates
184.) Advisor > Adviser
185.) Cheverolet > Chevrolet
186.) Worcester Sauce > Worcestershire Sauce
187.) Objects In The Mirror MAYBE Closer Than They Appear > .... Are Closer Than They Appear
188.) Betty Eggleton > Eagleton
189.) Airdree > Airdrea
190.) Bubbalicious > Bubblicious
191.) Song Lyrics : ' Don't BREAK My Heart, My Achy Breaky Heart ' > Don't tell My Heart .......
192.) Film Title : Stockade > Cadence
193.) Allah akbar > Allahu Akbar
194.) Latoya Jackson > La Toya Jackson
195.) How To Kill A Mockingbird > To Kill A Mockingbird
196.) Possum > Opossum
197.) Song Lyrics : ' Sweet Dreams Are Made Of THESE ' > ' Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This
198.) Flintstones : ' Wilma, I'm Home ' > Never Said
199.) Star Trek : ' Beam me up, Scotty ' > Never Said
200.) Country - Columbia > Colombia
201.) Movie Title : The Sandlot Kids > The Sandlot
202.) Lionel Ritchie > Lionel Richie
203.) Bette Middler > Bette Midler
204.) Betty Boo > Betty Boop
205.) Song Lyrics : ' The Best Things In Life ARE Free ' > The Best Things In Life They're Free
206.) Song Lyrics : ' Never Meant To Make Your Daughter Cry, I Apologise A THOUSAND Times ' > ' ...... I Apologise A Trillion Times '
207.) Song Lyrics : ' I see A Bad Moon A Rising ' > ' I See The Bad Moon Rising '
208.) Sarah Michelle Geller > Gellar
209.) Pharoah > Pharaoh
210.) Song Lyrics : ' It's A Hard Knock Life ' > ' It's The Hard Knock Life '
211.) Withdrawl > Withdrawal
212.) Toys : Playschool > Playskool
213.) U.S.S.R. - United Soviet Socialist Republic > Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics
214.) Charlie Bit My Finger > Charlie Bit Me
215.) Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes - Set 8 Years After Original Film > Set 10 Years After
216.) Bolognaise > Bolognese
217.) Oxy Clean > Oxi Clean
218.) Sally Fields > Sally Field
219.) Song Lyrics : ' What Would You DO If I Sang Out Of Tune ' > ' What Would You Think ....... '
220.) Lasagna > Lasagne
221.) Pidgeon > Pigeon
222.) Expresso > Never Existed
223.) War OF The Planet Of The Apes > War FOR The Planet Of The Apes
224.) Battleships Board Game > Battleship
225.) Earwigs Couldn't Fly > Earwigs CAN Fly
226.) Julius Caesar First Emperor Of Rome > Augustus
227.) Ryannair > Ryanair
228.) Boys Stop Growing At Age 21 > Age 16-18
229.) Red Hot Chilli Peppers > Chili Peppers
230.) Cellotape > Sellotape
231.) Transformers : Dark Side Of The Moon > Dark Of The Moon
232.) Song Lyrics : ' Ain't THAT A Kick In The Head ' > ' Ain't LOVE A Kick In The Head
233.) Phrase : ' Just Desserts ' > ' Just Deserts '
234.) Daddy Long Legs > Cellar Spiders
235.) StraightJacket > StraitJacket
236.) Wookie > Wookiee
237.) Movie Title : Up! > Up
238.) Karate kid Headband - Red Rising Sun > White Lotus Flower
239.) Miss Piggy - Mole On Cheek > No Mole
240.) Statue Of Liberty - Bare Ankles > Shackles On Ankles
241.) ' Luke, I Am Your Father ' > ' No, I Am Your Father '
242.) We Are The Champions.. Of The World > No ' Of The World ' At The End
243.) Ghandi > Gandhi
244.) 'Me Tarzan, You Jane' > Never Said
245.) Blue Ribbon > Blue Riband
246.) Doctor Who > Dr Who
247.) ' If You Build It , THEY Will Come ' > ' ... HE Will Come '
248.) 52 U.S. States > 50 States
249.) VW Logo No Gap > Gap
250.) Wiley Coyote > Wile E Coyote
251.) Jack The Ripper Killed 11 > Killed 5
252.) Marseilles, France > Marseille
253.) Raisin Bran - Sun Had Shades > No Glasses
254.) Song Title : Gangster's Paradise > Gangsta's Paradise
255.) Song Title : Hit Me Baby One More Time > Baby One More Time
256.) Can You Smell What The Rock Is Cooking > If You Smell What The Rock Is Cooking
257.) Flintstones : Bam Bam Rubble > Bamm-Bamm Rubble
258.) St John's Ambulance > St John Ambulance
259.) Song Lyrics : 'Footloose, Footloose Kick Off YOUR Sunday Shoes > ' ...THE Sunday Shoes '
260.) Mad Max - Beyond THE Thunderdome > Beyond Thunderdome
261.) Wall Murial > Wall Mural
262.) Heinz Meanz Beanz > Beanz Meanz Heinz
263.) Three Amigos > ¡Three Amigos!
264.) Aladdin - Arabian > Aladdin - Chinese
265.) Beavis And Butthead > Beavis And Butt-Head
266.) Shell Logo : The Word 'SHELL' At The Top With A Shell Image Underneath > No Word At Top
267.) A-Team - Mad Dog Murdock > Howling Mad Murdock
268.) Vick's Vapour Rub > Vick's VapoRub
269.) Cup O' Noodles > Cup Noodles
270.) Charlie And The Chocolate Factory > Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory (1971 film)
271.) Cheryl Crow - Sheryl Crow
272.) Pavillion > Pavilion
273.) Videgame : Grand Tourismo > Gran Turismo
274.) Aladdin - Return Of Jafaar > Jafar
275.) Matrix : ' Mr Anderson , We've Been Expecting You ' > Never Said
276.) Soccer Player : Lucas Modric > Luka Modrić
277.) Soccer Player : Roberto Firminio > Roberto Firmino
278.) Soccer Player : Saido Mane > Sadio Mané
279.) Song Lyrics : ' Where The Eagles FLY, On A Mountain High ' > ' Where The Eagles CRY.....
280.) Snow White And The Seven Dwarves > Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs
281.) Little Mermaid - Sebastian Yellow Eyes > Back To White
282.) Roger Rabbit - White Eyes > Blue Eyes
283.) Mr Deeds - ' Want Me To Wipe The Leaves On Your Ficus PLANT, Preston ' > ' ...... Ficus TREE '
284.) ' Wee Willie Winkie RUNNING Through The Town ' > ' ... RUNS Through The Town
285.) Song Lyrics : ' When I Grow Up, I Wanna See The World, Drive Nice Cars, I Wanna Have Boobies ' > ' .... I Wanna Have Groupies '
286.) Film Title : Rocky And Bullwinkle > The Adventures Of Rocky And Bullwinkle
287.) Supermissive Black Hole > Supermassive
288.) Broach > Brooch
289.) Song Title : Promiscious Girl > Promiscuous
290) Film Title : Face Off > Face/Off
291.) Susannah Reid > Susanna
292.) R2D2 - No Wires On Feet > Wires On Feet
293.) C3po - All Gold > Silver Leg, Wires On Stomach, Black Palms, Antenna
294.) Song Lyrics : ' You Scumbag, You Maggot, You Cheap Lousy Faggot, Happy Christmas Your Arse, AND THANK God It's Our Last ' > ' .... I PRAY God It's Our Last
295.) Speech - ' I HAD A Dream ' > ' I HAVE A Dream '
296.) Gettysburg Address : ' Fourscore And Seven Years Ago Our FORFATHERS Brought Forth On This Continent... ' > ' ..... Our FATHERS ..... '
297.) Sex In The City > Sex And The City
298.) Arethra Franklin > Aretha Franklin
299.) Haley's Comet > Halley's Comet
300.) Sonic's Arms Blue > Bare
301.) Paddington Yellow Coat > Blue Coat
302.) U.K. Passport 2 Lions > Lion & A Unicorn
303.) Homer Simpson - 3 Strands Of Hair > 2 Strands Of Hair
304.) Spelling - Villiage > Village
305.) Ronald McDonald's Hair - Fuzzy > Straight
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15 Most Memorable Quotes From Goodfellas | ScreenRant
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https://ift.tt/2X9HUAm Most people would say that
the greatest gangster movie ever made is
The Godfather, but a strong argument could be made instead for Martin Scorsese’s
Goodfellas. It is certainly the more entertaining of the two, with
its impeccable soundtrack, fast cuts, sense of humor, voiceover narration, and all-over-the-place narrative structure.
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Goodfellas: 10 Most Iconic Moments, Ranked Also, it’s based on a true story.
The life of Henry Hill actually happened. The Corleone family is entirely fictional.
Goodfellas_’ adaptation of true events adds a whole new layer to both the comedy and tragedy of the story. With that in mind, here are the 10 Most Memorable Quotes From _Goodfellas.
Updated on May 28th, 2020 by Ben Sherlock:_Even with the critical acclaim met by The Irishman, Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas remains one of his most popular films. A number of critics compared The Irishman to Goodfellas, but called it a more mature film. It has a slower pace, a more nihilistic tone, and a heavier focus on the immense guilt rattling around the heads of mobsters. With its rapid pacing, pitch-black humor, and Jules and Jim-inspired all-over-the-place editing, Goodfellas is endlessly rewatchable, so we’ve updated this list with a few more entries._15 I Like Going This Way…
“I like going this way. It’s better than waiting in line.”
The long tracking shot through the Copacabana found in _Goodfellas_ is one of the most iconic shots in the history of cinema. Henry skips the line, takes Karen into the club through the kitchen, and has a table brought out for them right in front of the stage. It’s easy to see why Karen was seduced by Henry’s lavish lifestyle.
14 You Wasted Eight F****** Aprons On This Guy
When a man with a gunshot wound collapses on the doorstep of Tuddy’s restaurant, Henry springs into action and starts plugging up the wound with aprons until the man makes it safely into the back of an ambulance.
For all intents and purposes, this makes him a hero. But Tuddy doesn’t see it that way; he just sees all the missing aprons. He says, _“You’re a real jerk. You wasted eight f*ckin’ aprons on this guy. I don’t know what the hell’s wrong with you. I gotta toughen this kid up.”_13 To Me, It Meant Being Somebody In A Neighborhood Full Of Nobodies
What makes
Goodfellasarguably the best mob movie ever made is that it doesn’t just depict hitmen killing people for mafiosos and gangsters stealing cigarettes out of trucks. It also shows the seductive nature of the mafia lifestyle.
We understand exactly why Henry Hill wanted to be a gangster, and why that lifestyle seemed so appealing. When he was growing up, being a gangster seemed like “_being somebody in a neighborhood full of nobodies._”
12 F*** You, Pay Me
In voiceover, Henry explains what it’s like to have Paulie as a business partner: _“Any problems, he goes to Paulie. Trouble with a bill, he can go to Paulie. Trouble with the cops, deliveries, Tommy, he can call Paulie. But now, the guy’s gotta come up with Paulie’s money every week, no matter what. Business bad? Fck you, pay me. Oh, you had a fire? Fck you, pay me. Place got hit by lightning, huh? Fck you, pay me.”_11 You’d Be Late For Your Own F***** Funeral
Long before
Pulp Fiction_would make him an icon, Samuel L. Jackson played a small role as Stacks Edwards in _Goodfellas. Instead of ditching the truck that they used in the Lufthansa heist like he was supposed to, Stacks got stoned.
So, Tommy goes over to his apartment and tells him to get dressed. But while he’s getting dressed, Tommy says, “_You’d be late for your own f*ckin’ funeral,_” and shoots him in the back of the head.
10 They even shot Tommy in the face…
They even shot Tommy in the face, so his mother couldn’t give him an open coffin at the funeral.
Perhaps the most awful moment in the whole of Goodfellas_is when Tommy heads to what he thinks is the ceremony in which he’ll be made and gets killed. As Henry explains the whole thing, we get a haunting look and how strictly the mafia stick to their rules: _“It was revenge for Billy Batts, _and a lot of other things. And there was nothing that we could do about it. Batts was a made man, and Tommy wasn’t. And we had to sit still and take it. It was among the Italians. It was real greaseball s**t. They even shot Tommy in the face, so his mother couldn’t give him an open coffin at the funeral.”_9 I got to admit the truth…
I got to admit the truth. It turned me on.
One of the smartest moves Martin Scorsese made with the writing and directing of _Goodfellas_was following Karen’s storyline as well as Henry’s. Not only does the movie explore the mentality of someone who ends up being a career criminal; it explores the mentality of someone who gets romantically involved with one. And Lorraine Bracco plays the character with so much gravitas and humanity. Our first glimpse into her psyche is a fascinating one: _“I know there are women, like my best friends, who would have gotten out of there the minute their boyfriend gave them a gun to hide. But I didn’t. I got to admit the truth. It turned me on.”_8 I’m an average nobody…
I’m an average nobody. I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.
At the end of
Goodfellas, it might seem as though Henry gets off easy by selling out all his friends to the FBI and going into the Witness Protection Program. But as his final voiceover monologue points out, he’s left completely unfulfilled. He had everything he ever wanted and then lost it. Now, he has to live a mundane life in the suburbs like everybody else. Henry might have avoided jail by ratting out all of his friends – something he was told since his childhood never to do – but he feels just as trapped in his new life as if he had gone to jail.
7 I’m gonna go get the papers…
I’m gonna go get the papers, get the papers.
A commonality among the best crime stories is that they explore how criminals get their nicknames, and it’s usually something pretty trivial. For example, in the very first scene of the very first episode of The Wire, Jimmy McNulty launches into a monologue about how a kid was given a beautiful name by his mother and then one day, just because he forgot to grab a sweater on his way out and he ended up with a runny nose, he ended up with the lifelong nickname Snot. This was pioneered in Goodfellas, in which Henry Hill says, _“There was Jimmy Two Times, who got that nickname because he said everything twice.”_6 Hey, Tommy, if I was gonna break your balls…
Hey, Tommy, if I was gonna break your balls, I’d tell you to go home and get your shine box.
Joe Pesci’s character Tommy DeVito has a contentious relationship with pretty much everybody, but none more than Billy Batts. Billy knows that Tommy is a hothead and he likes to push his buttons. Tommy asks him politely, _“Just don’t go bustin’ my balls, Billy, okay?”_RELATED:
Goodfellas: Every Major Performance, Ranked And then Billy says, _“Hey, Tommy, if I was gonna break your balls, I’d tell you to go home and get your shine box. Now, this kid, this kid was great. They used to call him Spitshine Tommy. I swear to God! Now, he’d make your shoes look like f**kin’ mirrors. ‘Scuse my language.”_It’s a tense scene, since we’re just waiting for Tommy to erupt – and he does.
5 If we wanted something, we just took it
Part of what makes _Goodfellas_the quintessential mob movie is its exploration of the mob lifestyle and what leads people into organized crime in the first place. As Henry Hill explains in voiceover: _“For us to live any other way was nuts. Uh, to us, those goody-good people who worked sh**ty jobs for bum paychecks and took the subway to work every day and worried about their bills were dead. I mean, they were suckers. They had no balls. If we wanted something, we just took it. If anyone complained twice, they got hit so bad, believe me, they never complained again.”_4 Oh, I like this one…
Oh, I like this one. One dog goes one way, the other dog goes the other way.
One of Martin Scorsese’s directorial trademarks is putting his mother, Catherine Scorsese, in his movies. But she usually has a cameo role. Her biggest role is in Goodfellas, when she plays Tommy Devito’s mother. Tommy, Jimmy, and Henry go to visit her and have a bite to eat. It’s a long scene, at least in relation to this fast-paced movie, and the tension comes from the fact that there’s a guy bleeding out in the trunk of their car. The whole time, he’s in the back of our minds, while Tommy nonchalantly analyzes his mother’s new painting: _“Oh, I like this one. One dog goes one way, the other dog goes the other way, and this guy’s sayin’, ‘Whadda ya want from me?’”_3 Never rat on your friends…
Never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut.
Martin Scorsese wasn’t able to secure the funding for _Goodfellas_until
Robert De Niro agreed to play the mobster Jimmy Conway in the film. He’s not the star of the movie, but he is an important figure in Henry Hill’s life. As a kid, Henry is arrested and doesn’t tell the cops anything, which makes the other mobsters proud.
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“As Far Back As I Can Remember…” 10 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Goodfellas Jimmy says, _“I’m not mad, I’m proud of you. You took your first pinch like a man and you learn two great things in your life. Look at me. Never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut.”_On repeat viewings, this scene acts as harrowing foreshadowing for the big finale.
2 What do you mean I’m funny?
Joe Pesci could’ve won his Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor on the basis of this scene alone. It’s one of the first scenes in the movie and establishes his dangerously unstable jokester character early one. Henry says,
“You’re really funny!”_and his smile drops. “_What do you mean I’m funny?… _You mean the way I talk?”_Henry says, _“It’s just, you know, you’re just funny. It’s funny, the way you tell the story and everything.”_Pesci’s character Tommy DeVito says, _“Funny how? I mean, what’s funny about it?”_Eventually, it devolves and he’s shouting: _“I mean, funny like I’m a clown? I amuse you? I make you laugh, I’m here to f**kin’ amuse you?”_And then it turns out he was messing with him the whole time.
1 As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster
This line from near the beginning of the movie is not just the best quote in
Goodfellas; it might just be the single greatest quote in film history. Not only is it memorable and an exciting way to start the movie; its placement in the story speaks volumes. We’ve just seen these three guys sitting in silence, driving through the countryside, and then they open the trunk of the car to reveal a bloodied man. They stab him, shoot him, and bury him. Then Scorsese closes on Ray Liotta and, in voiceover as Tony Bennett’s “Rags to Riches” comes on the soundtrack, he says,
“As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.” You really wanted this life? It opens the discussion of the mobster lifestyle that the whole film explores.
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5 Reasons Martin Scorsese’s Casino Is Underrated (And 5 Why It’s Just A Goodfellas Rip-off) https://ift.tt/2XCY58x A personal list of all Mandela Effects ! Part 1
I have made a list of all the changes that have affected me over the past 3 years , i'm not trying to prove any of them to skeptics, but using it as a way to keep track. Also, i have intentionally left out geography location changes and flip flops. Enjoy :), It will go as follows :
My memory > Current state
1.) N.A.S.A. - North American Space Agency > National Aeronautics And Space Administration
2.) Dr Doolittle > Dr Dolittle
3.) Vasoline > Vaseline
4) SEAN William Scott > Seann William Scott
5.) Hellman's > Hellmann's
6.) Gravy GRANUALS > Granules
7.) Rizzla > Rizla
8.) Creation Of Adam - God's Hand Reaching Down > God's Hand Level With Adam's.
9.) Mona Lisa Not Smiling > Smiling
10.) Ford Logo - F has straight crosspoint > curl on crosspoint.
11.) 1 Moon Landing > 6 Moon Landing's
12.) Karma Sutra > Kama Sutra
13.) Macdonalds > McDonald's
14.) Lion's Can Roar > Lion's Can't Roar
15.) Lion's King Of The Jungle > Tiger's K.O.T.J.
16.) The Diary Of Anne Frank > Diary Of A Young Girl
17.) Statue Of Liberty - Ellis Island > Liberty Island
18.) Marshmellow > Marshmallow
19.) Mary Poppins - Spoonful Of Sugar HELPS The Medicine Go Down > MAKES The Medicine Go Down
20.) Capricorn Sign - A Goat > A Goat Fish
21.) Ford KIA > KI^
22.) Phillips TV > Philips
23.) Little Tykes > Little Tikes
24.) nintendo > Nintendo
25.) Donna Summers > Donna Summer
26.) Doc Martins > Doc Martens
27.) Fabreeze > Febreze
28.) Large HALDRON Collider > Hadron
29.) TOBASCO sauce > Tabasco
30.) HILARY Clinton > Hillary
31.) Chilli > Chili
32.) SAMSUNG > SMSUNG
33.) iPhone > IPhone
34.) Hello Clarice > Hello
35.) E.T. - Opening Credits WHITE > Purple
36.) Goodfellas - Opening Credits WHITE > Red
37.) Wheatabix > Weetabix
38.) Rice CRISPIES > Rice Krispies
39.) Great Pyramid - 4 Sides > 8 Sides
40.) Great Pyramid - Centre > On The Right
41.) Stomach Where The Belly Button Is > Bottom Of Rib Cage
42.) Heart On Left > Left Centre
43.) Committed > Commited
44.) Dilemna > Dilemma
45.) Pajamas > Pyjamas
46.) Griffindor > Gryffindor
47.) T2 - JUDGEMENT Day > Judgment day
48.) I'll Huff And I'll Puff And I'll Blow Your House DOWN > Blow Your House In
49.) MIRROR ,Mirror On The Wall > Magic Mirror
50.) Who's The Fairest Of Them All > One Of All
51.) ' You Want The Truth, You Can't Handle The Truth ' > ' You Can't Handle The Truth '
52.) Sherbert > Sherbet
53.) Buisness > Business
54.) Brussel Sprouts > Brussels Sprouts
55.) Anatomy - Small 1 Piece Liver > Large 2 Lobe Liver
56.) Bill Haley And The Comets > His Comets
57.) Tony The Tiger - Black Nose > Blue Nose
58.) Burma > Myanmar
59.) Film - Jupiter Rising > Jupiter Ascending
60.) Mr Moneybags > Rich Uncle Pennybags
61.) Monopoly - Monacle > No Monacle
62.) Chumbawumba > Chumbawamba
63.) Cruella Deville > Cruella De Vil
64.) ' Take my Strong Hand ' > ' Little Hand '
65.) ' I See White People ' > ' I See Dead People '
66.) Keenan & Kel > Kenan & Kel
67.) ' The Names Bond, James Bond ' > My names Bond, James Bond
68.) Seperate > Separate
69.) Lay-Z-Boy > La-Z-Boy
70.) Jim Carey > Jim Carrey
71.) Cadbury's > Cadbury
72.) Malteasers > Maltesers
73.) First Bond Film - Casino Royale > Dr No
74.) Easter Island Statues - No Hats > Hats
75.) Cindy Doll > Sindy Doll
76.) Laughing Cow - Gold Nose Ring and Gold Earrings > Cheese Wheel Earrings
77.) Carribean > Caribbean
78.) Thinker Statue - Hand On Head > On Chin
79.) Tweedledee & Tweedledum - Propellars On Hats > Tweedledum & Tweedledee - Flags On Hats
80.) Roy Schneider > Roy Scheider
81.) Julius Ceasar > Caesar
82.) Morpheus - ' What If I Told You ' > Not Said
83.) Shaggy's Adam's Apple > No Adam's Apple
84.) Phrase - ' For all Intensive Purposes ' > ' For All Intents And Purposes '
86.) Beckon Call > Beck and Call
87.) Tender Hooks > Tenter Hooks
88.) Madeline McCann > Madeleine McCann
89.) Tumeric > Turmeric
90.) Iburofen > Ibuprofen
91.) Bud Lite > Bud Light
92.) Green Mile mouse - Mr Bojangles > Mr Jingles
93.) Spiderman > Spider-Man
94.) Amelia Earhardt > Amelia Earhart
95.) My True Love GAVE To Me > Sent to me
96.) Quote : ' That's Not A Knife, THIS Is A Knife > That's A Knife
97.) Phrase- Chomp At The Bit > Champ At The Bit
98.) Phrase - All The Range > All The Rage
99.) Whacky Races ' Catch The Pigeon ' > ' Stop The Pigeon '
100.) Kit Kat > Kit-Kat
101.) Warewolf > Werewolf
102.) Wilderbeast > Wildbeest
103.) D.E.A. - Drug Enforcement Agency > Drug Enforcement Administration
104.) Jackson 5 - 5 Members > 7 Members
105.) Term - Card Shark > Card Sharp
106.) Song Lyrics : ' What Is Love, BABY Don't Hurt Me > Lady Don't Hurt Me
107.) Song Lyrics : ' I'm A Barbie Girl, In A Barbie World > The Barbie World
108.) Oliver : ' Please Sir, CAN I HAVE some more > I want some more
109.) Nikolai Tesla > Nikola Tesla
110.) Erwin Schröedinger > Schrödinger
111.) Hanna Barberra > Hanna-Barbera
112.) Frankenstein - ' HE'S Alive ' > It's Alive
113.) Glenfell Tower > Grenfell Tower
114.) Donald Duck - Neck Kerchief > Red Bow Tie
115.) Ficus Plant > Ficus Tree
116.) Margerine > Margarine
117.) Barbeque > Barbecue
118.) Daylight Savings Time > Daylight Saving Time
119.) Sweets - Tootie Frooties > Tootie Fruities
120.) TV Show - Barbaar The Elephant > Babar The Elephant
121.) Cat Food - Whiskers > Whiskas
122.) Klu Klux Klan > Ku Klux Klan
123.) Baron Trump > Barron Trump
124.) Inspector Gadget - Mustache > No Mustache
125.) Henry VIII - Holding Turkey Leg > Not Holding Turkey Leg
126.) Guinness Book Of Records > Guinness World Records
127.) Plane Engines under wing > Engines In Front Of Wing
128.) Dracula - ' I Want To Suck Your Blood ' > Never Said
129.) Scooby Doo - ' We Would Of Gotten Away With It Too, If It Weren't For Those Meddling Kids ' > Never Said
130.) Toys R Us > Toys (Reverse R) Us
131.) Song Lyric : ' RIDING In A One Horse Open Sleigh ' > Gliding In A One Horse ....
132.) Song Lyrics : ' 3 Little Birds, Sat On My Window ' > ' ... Birds , Pitched By My Doorstep '
133.) Song Title - Country Roads > (Take Me Home) Country Roads
134.) ' MERRY Christmas To All And To All A Good Night ' > Happy Christmas To All....
135.) The Grinch Who Stole Christmas > How The Grinch Stole Christmas
136.) Forrest Gump - ' I MAY Not Be A Smart Man, But I Know What Love Is ' > I'm Not A Smart Man..
137.) Meatloaf > Meat Loaf
138.) Barbara Streisand > Barbra Streisand
139.) Tinkerbell > Tinker Bell
140.) Grease Lightning > Greased Lightnin'
141.) WE'RE Gonna Need A Bigger Boat > You're
142.) Selsum Blue > Selsun Blue
143.) Song Lyrics : ' You've Been STRUCK By A Smooth Criminal ' > ' ... Hit By A Smooth Criminal '
144.) Robert Deniro > Robert De Niro
145.) Mother Theresa > Mother Teresa
146.) Cadbury's CREAM Egg > Creme Egg
147.) Absolute Vodka > Absolut Vodka
148.) Song Lyrics : ' How Deep Is Your Love, I Really NEED TO KNOW ' > ' ... Mean To Learn '
149.) Innoculate > Inoculate
150.) Harry Houdini Died Whilst Performing A Magic Trick > Appendicitus In Hospital
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Hitler Hunt for 4/14/2019
I found 57 Hitlers in Politics today.
Robert De Niro tears into Republicans: 'We're not going to forget' about what you did under Trump
Pete Buttigieg Officially Announces Run For President
Ocasio-Cortez backs boycott of the 'racist New York Post'
Twitter Urged To Suspend Donald Trump After President Accused Of ‘Sharing Propaganda Videos Trafficking In Hate Speech’ Over Omar Attack
$2,198,468,000,000: Federal Spending Hit 10-Year High Through March; Taxes Hit 5-Year Low
Ilhan Omar hits back after Trump triggers deluge of abuse: 'I did not run for Congress to be silent'
"Don't Give Hate a Platform": Facebook, Twitter Urged to Suspend Trump Following Attack on Ilhan Omar
Nancy Pelosi: Trump Is ‘Wrong’ to Use Edited 9/11 Footage in ‘Political Attack’
Nadler wants 'the boss of everybody' Stephen Miller to testify before Congress
Robert De Niro Wishes Jail Time For Trump
Trump Refuses to Renominate Obama's Pick for U.N. Committee on Racism, Won't Name Replacement
The Russians are screwing with the GPS system to send bogus navigation data to thousands of ships
Kamala Harris releases 15 years of tax returns, more than any other 2020 candidate
Dan Crenshaw has no response after AOC blasts him over his phony outrage.
- "President Trump is lot of things, but he's not Hitler." - Gooch222
- "Hitler inspired loyalty for a start." - blasto_blastocyst
- "But he's kinda Hitler." - RatFuck_Debutante
- "Hitler probably had higher approval ratings than Trump." - KamalaIsACop
- "He may not be Hitler, but it's pretty clear based on his love of modern dictators that if Hitler was around today Trump would be a huge supporter of his." - ImNoScientician
- "Hitler was Hitler, Trump is American Hitler." - aeromaic
- "It’s kinda sad to think, “If Hitler didn’t already exist, what would Trump try to get away with." - LogisticsofWandering
- "Andrew Jackson is the American Hitler." - ubbergoat
- "Drives me nuts when people cry hyperbole when comparisons are made too Hitler." - RUreddit2017
- "He’s using Putin’s playbook step by step, but Putin is using the “Nazi Hitler charisma manipulation of the moronic masses” strategy combined with Russian flair." - aeromaic
- "It drives me nuts when people say Trump isn't like Hitler because he hasn't committed genocide yet as if Hitler ran on a genocide platform." - jaykilluminati
- "Concentration camps in Germany started very early on for communists but didn't start stuffing in Jews until 1938, five years after Hitler rose to power." - PoEandPolitics2
- "As if Hitler ran on a genocide platform." - NonHomogenized
- "I'd draw a distinction in that, prior to his political career, Hitler expressly stated his desire to eliminate the Jews, whereas Trump was a generally racist sack of shit but didn't say things like, Once I really am in power, my first and foremost task will be the annihilation of the Jews." - NonHomogenized
Pelosi says she talked with Sergeant-at-Arms about Omar's safety following Trump tweet
WH: Trump Was ‘Making A Joke’ When He Cited Wikileaks Dozens Of Times In ’16
The country isn’t ‘full’ — and Trump knows it
Trump’s Fed Nominee Isn’t a ‘Big Believer in Democracy’
Buttigieg calls for 'a new American spring' in campaign launch
Noam Chomsky: America's Extraterritorial Reach Is Its Own Scandal
Pelosi Calls on Trump to Take Down 9/11 Video Attacking Rep. Ilhan Omar
Wounded SEAL Dan Crenshaw mocked by left as ‘captain shithead,' Nazi, 'eyeless f--k'
Sieg Heil! I mean... Beep Boop, I am a robot.
My purpose is to find and link comments in Politics that contain the word 'Hitler'
Since my birth, I have found a total of 37737 Hitlers in Politics. On average, I found 82 Hitlers per day.
Today, I read 33967 comments. In total, I have read 20904514 comments.
High School Dropouts Are More Successful
The list below are high school dropouts:
Thomas Haffa – self-made double-digit billionaire German media businessman
J.R. Simplot – self-made billionaire American agricultural businessman
Robert Maxwell – self-made billionaire British publisher
Jim Clark – self-made billionaire American businessman; founder of Netscape – first Internet billionaire (17, U.S. Navy)
Jimmy Dean – singer-songwriter-actor; self-made multimillionaire American businessman; founder of the Jimmy
Andrew Jackson – 7th U.S. President; face is pictured on the U.S. twenty dollar bill (13, U.S. Continental Army; orphaned at 14; little formal education; home schooling/life experience; studied law in his late teens and became a lawyer
Leon Uris – best-selling American author (Exodus, etc.) (17, U.S. Marines)
Walter L. Smith – former president of Florida A& M University (equivalency diploma, at age 23.
Clement Stone – self-made multimillionaire (some sources indicate billionaire) American businessman-author; founder of Success†magazine (elementary school dropout; later attended high-school night courses and then some college
Jack London – best-selling American author (dropped out at 14 to work; later gained admission to the University of California; left after one semester
Arthur Ernest Morgan – American flood-control engineer; college, president-author; appointed by President Roosevelt to be director of the Tennessee Valley Authority public works project (left high school after three years; later attended the University of Colorado for six weeks
Maurice Chevalier – Oscar-winning actor-singer; French Legion of Honor inductee/Medal recipient (note: rank bestowed in
Pierce Brosnan – actor
Daniel Gilbert – Harvard University psychology professor (equivalency diploma
Patrick Henry – American Revolutionary War era politician; Virginia’ first governor; famous quote: Give me liberty, or give me death! (little formal education; home schooling/life experience; later studied on his own and earned a law degree
Peter Jennings – Canadian-born American television journalist; evening news anchorman
Ansel Adams – American wilderness photographer;Â photography book author; Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient
Brooke Astor – wealthy American socialite-philanthropist-author; Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient
Pearl Bailey – singer-actress, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient
Bill Bartman – self-made billionaire American businessman
Lew Grade – British film/TV producer (TV: The Avengers, The Saint, Secret Agent, The Prisoner, The Muppet Show, etc.); knighted (United Kingdom: Sir Lew Grade)
Philip Emeagwali – supercomputer scientist; one of the pioneers of the Internet (high-IQ high-school dropout; left school in native Nigeria due to war conditions and lack of tuition money; continued to study on his own and earned an equivalency diploma; later won a scholarship to Oregon College of Education in the United States; transferred after one year to Oregon State University)
Hiram Stevens – American-born engineering inventor, knighted (United Kingdom: Sir Hiram Stevens)
Kemmons Wilson – self-made multimillionaire American businessman; founder of the Holiday Inn†hotel chain
Kjell Inge Rokke – self-made billionaire Norwegian businessman
Walter Nash – New Zealand Prime Minister 1957-1960, knighted (United Kingdom: Sir Walter Nash)
Rosa Parks – U.S. civil rights activist-pioneer; Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient; Congressional Gold Medal recipient
Mary Pickford – Oscar-winning actress; early Hollywood pioneer; co-founder of United Artists Corporation†(little formal education [six months]; home schooling/life experience)
Frederick Freddy†Laker – self-made multimillionaire British businessman; airline entrepreneur; knighted (United Kingdom: Sir Frederick [or Freddy] Laker)
Tommy Lasorda – baseball team manager; National Baseball Hall of Fame inductee
Anton van Leeuwenhoek- Dutch microscope maker; world’s first microbiologist; discoverer of bacteria, blood cells, and sperm cells)
Richard Branson – self-made billionaire British businessman; founder of Virgin Atlantic Airways,†Virgin Records,†etc.; knighted (United Kingdom: Sir Richard Branson)
Isaac Merrit Singer – American sewing machine inventor; self-made multimillionaire founder of Singer Industries,†I.M. Singer and Company,†etc. (elementary school dropout)
Alfred E. Smith – New York Governor; 1928 Democratic U.S. Presidential candidate (elementary school dropout)
Sean Connery – Oscar-winning actor; knighted (United Kingdom: Sir Sean Connery)
Jack Kent Cooke – self-made billionaire Canadian-born American media businessman
Charles E. Culpeper – self-made multimillionaire American businessman; early 1900s’ owner and head of The Coca Cola Bottling Company
Robert De Niro – Oscar-winning actor-producer; knighted (France: Chevalier [Knight] of the Legion of Honor; Chevalier [or Chev.] Robert De Niro)
Gerard Depardieu – Oscar-nominated actor; knighted (France: Chevalier [or Chev.] Gerard Depardieu) (elementary school dropout)
Richard Desmond – self-made billionaire British publisher
Joe Lewis – self-made billionaire British businessman
Carl Lindn er – self-made billionaire American businessman
John Llewellyn – U.S. Labor leader pioneer; for 40 years until his retirement, president of the United Mine Workers Union
Marcus Loew – self-made multimillionaire American businessman; early Hollywood pioneer; founder of the Loews†movie-theater chain; co-fondner of MGM studios (elementary school dropout)
Mary Lyon – American women’s education pioneer; early American teacher; founder of Mount Holyoke College (America’s first women’s college)
Sonny Bono – singer-songwriter-actor, U.S. Congressman (California U.S. Representative)
Horace Greeley – American newspaper publisher-editor; U.S. Congressman; U.S. Presidential candidate; co-founder of the Republican party in the United States
Here is another list of people that dropped out of high school or college. They have gone on to make more money then the rest of their graduating class all together:
Alan Gerry is another billionaire high school dropout. Gerry 71 also filled his bank account by exploiting a new technology. In 1956, ten years after he dropped out of high school, Gerry built the first cable television network in upstate New York. He made his fortune in this new market, and then sold his company, Cablevision, to Time Warner for $2.6 billion four years ago. Now Gerry is chairman of a venture capital firm called Granite Associates. Granite funds entrepreneurs trying to make their money in burgeoning technology industries, just as Gerry made his fortune by getting into cable when it was still in its infancy.
When you have a brilliant idea, nobody is going to ask to see your diploma, Gerry says. You don’t need a four-year college degree if you have burning ambition or a great plan.
Take Spud King John R. Simplot. Simplot, was born on an Idaho farm and left home when he was 14 because he was sick of milking cows.†Simplot followed that with a half century of hard work and shrewd investments, he made a killing in Micron (nyse: MU – news – people ). How important was education to his success? Hell, he says, I didn’t even get out of the eighth grade.
Tom Monaghan owner of Dominioes and former owner of the Detroit Tigers:
I floundered during the rest of high school and graduated last in my class. They weren’t even going to graduate me, but I pleaded with a nun. She said, Well, you got good marks in the seminary, so I’ll let you graduate. But don’t ever ask me to recommend you for college.
One day in 1960, my brother told me about a pizza shop in Ypsilanti, Mich., called Dominoes, that a friend of his was selling. My brother was interested but afraid to do it on his own, so he asked if I’d do it with him. I was having problems paying my way through school, so I said yes. It was $500 down, and we borrowed $900. I got a 15-minute lesson in making pizza from Dominick, and I was off. We opened up without an attorney. I didn’t even collect sales tax “didn’t know I had to. The plan was for me to work half the night and my brother to work the other half. But it didn’t work because he didn’t want to leave his full-time job as a mailman. Within about eight months he wanted out, and I bought him out by giving him the Volkswagen we used for deliveries.
Most of you probably know that Dave Thomas the founder of Wendys was a high school dropout.
Peter Jennings-High School Dropout
Here is a couple of notable geniuses that were not billionaires. They were rich with knowledge but not cash. They were high school dropouts.
Albert Einstein Thomas Edison
Hong Kong self-made billionaire Li Ka-Shing, worth $18.8 billion or so, is Asia’s richest man. He is also the richest Chinese in the world, and according to Forbes, the 10th richest man in the world.
When he was just 12 years old, Li and his family fled to Hong Kong when Japan invaded China. When he was 15, Liâ’s father died and he was forced to drop out of high school to support his family.
Li got his start as a salesman selling watches at his uncle’s store, and soon proved to be a diligent worker: he worked 16 hour days, visited customers during the day and worked at the factory at night. Determined to better himself, Li even found a tutor to teach him English every night!
When he was 21, Li opened a plastic manufacturing company and grew his business by selling high quality plastic flowers at bargain prices. When Li was 30, he accidentally got into real estate because he couldn’t renew the lease for his factory and was forced to purchase and develop a site himself.
From there, Li diversified into electronics, telecommunications, retails, ports, and even power and electricity. Li is also noted for his philantrophy: he gave millions to various universities and disaster-relief.
All in all, not bad for a high school drop-out.
Amancio Ortega.
Amancio Ortega was a son of a railway worker turned fashion-mogul and Spain’s richest man. He is worth $14.8 billion.
Ortega started out at the age of 14 as a gofer in a shirt store. At the age of 27, he started his own company to make bathrobes. Twelve years later, he opened his first store called Zara, which would become an enormously popular chain.
Ortega kept a very low profile (so much so that when he did make a public appearance in 2000, it made headlines in Spanish press!) but we’re guessing it’s not because this billionaire dropped out of high school.
François Pinault.
François who? You may not recognize the name, but you’ll definitely know his products: through his retail and luxury goods holding company PPR, Franasois Pinault owns (or has owned) Gucci, YSL, Converse sneakers, Samsonite luggage, the Vail ski resort in Colorado, and the auction house Christie’s.
But donâ’t tell the luxury goods buyers that Pinault is a high school dropout – just tell them he’s worth $7 billion.
David Murdock had a tough childhood – he dropped out of high school in ninth-grade and pumped gas until he was drafted into the Army.
Since then, however, life had worked out for him: Murdock did a leveraged buyout of Castle & Cooke, which then bought Dole Food Company and assumed its name.
So, next time you eat a Dole pinapple, remember that the guy that owns it was a high school drop out (and by buying the product, you’re making him that much richer than the $4 billion he’s currently worth)
Kirk Kerkorian.
Self-made billionaire Kirk Kerkorian was an amateur boxer (Rifle Right Kerkorina) and a pilot. At the age of 30, he got his start by buying a small air-charter service flying gamblers from Los Angeles to Las Vegas in 1947.
Seeing opportunities in Las Vegas, Kerkorian bought land and got into the lucrative real estate / casino development. Since the 1960s, Kerkorian had bought (and sold) hot properties like the Caesars Palace, the Las Vegas Hilton, MGM Grand Hotel and Casino, and others.
Kerkorian’s current fortune is estimated to be around $8.7 billion – not bad for someone who was a highschool dropout.
YC Wang.
Can you technically label someone a dropout if he never started high school to begin with? Dunno, but this is too remarkable not to mention.
Wait, there’s a billionaire here that never even set foot in high school?
Yes. That’s YC Wang, a self-made Taiwanese billionaire who made his fortune in plastics and chemicals. The octagenarian is now the head of Taiwan’s Formosa Plastics, one of the largest plastic manufacturers in the world.
Wang was born to a tea farmer and was forced to enter the work force with only an elementary school education.
He did well for himself, though – Wang is now worth $5.4 billion.
Virgin’s Richard Branson is worth $2.8 billion and that’s not too shabby for a guy who didn’t even finish high school.
Branson suffered from dyslexia and dropped out of high school at 16 years of age. What he lacked in schooling, however, he made up in curiosity and entrepreneur zeal – when he was 15, he had started two business ventures: growing Christmas trees and raising parrots!
When he was 17, Branson opened his first charity and started his first record business. Along with Nik Powell, Branson opened a small record store in London called Virgin. It specialized in krautrock imports.
Virgin became a veritable giant (branching out into things like airways, telecommunication and so forth) and Branson was knighted in 1999 for services to entrepreneurship.
More education doesn’t mean you’ll be more successful. It’s all about your drive. Your passion in life and sticking to it. Not necessarily playing it safe. I’ve meet many people that have played it safe, with a good job and such and then retire broke. Don’t play it safe. Go for it like these people have.
So, next time you want to call him a high school dropout, remember that it’s Sir high school dropout to you.
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Hey guys mayday here, just wanted to discuss one of the reasons why i love channel ORANGE so much & its because of Franks subtle and obvious movie references. I'll show you guys all the ones i found & some of them happen to be from some of my favorite movies. He really is on another level.
1 - Rush Hour 2
Lyrics from: Lost "Got on my buttercream silk shirt and it's Versace"
Reference:
In Rush Hour 2, Jackie Chan & Chris Tucker must enter a Casino to take down a mobster but they need better clothes cause they ran away from the gangsteres and entered a sewer so they hit up a Versace store where the a gay clerk suggests Chris wear a buttercream suit.
2 - Reservoir Dogs
Lyrics from: Sweet Life "Livin' in Ladera Heights, the black Beverly Hills"
Reference:
The 4 major characters Eddie, Mr. Pink, Mr. White and Mr.Orange are all driving in a car when Ladera Heights is brought up and is nicknamed "The black Beverly Hills"
3 - Forrest Gump
Lyrics from: Forrest Gump "I saw your game, Forrest I was screaming run forty-four but you kept running past the end zone"
Reference:
Forrest Gump was a football star because of his speed and always ran past the end zone, not only does Frank reference the movie name he also samples the commentators quoting "All eyes on #44" as well as “He could just be the stupidest son of a bitch alive, sure is fast” A nice little metaphor to his tumblr letter where running past the endzone is his friend running past Franks feelings.
4 - The Royal Tenenbaums
Reference: Frank doesn't directly quote this movie but he did wear the exact outfit Richie Tenenbaum wore in the movie for his Forrest Gump performance, another nod to his open letter where he couldn't love the man he did just as Richie couldn't love Margot because they were step brother and sister.
5 - ATL
Lyrics from: End There's somethin' about you I can't believe I'm even talking to you, tellin' you this right now,You're special I wish you could see what I see"
Reference: Reffering to the ATL scene where Lauren London tells T.I she actually thinks he's cute a metaphor to Frank telling his friend his feelings for him. Fun Fact: the song playing in the back was then covered by Frank in January on Aaliyahs birthday
7 - Eyes Wide Shut
Lyrics from: Novacane & Love Crimes "I’m feelin' like Stanley Kubrick, this is some visionary shit been tryna film pleasure with my eyes wide shut but it keeps on movin"
Millions of years of evolution, right? Right!? Men have to stick it in every place they can, but for women it's just about security, and commitment, and- and whatever the fuck else! If you men only knew Youre not the jealous type are? You’ve never been jealous about me have you? and why haven’t you ever been jealous be? you… are very sure of yourself aren’t you”
Reference:
In Novacane Frank is under the influence and is getting pleasure sort of like how Tom Cruise did after discovering a Sex group.
In Love Crimes the song is about a relationship where the girl is(possibly) younger than Frank and her parents don't know, he impregnates her & they decide to flee in the end to get away from her parents and the possible arrest for, presumably stealing the dads car and going for a joyride "in the get away car, you know i love it when the ride is smooth, if we ever get caught, it'll be a long vacation for 2"
8 - Dirty Dancing
Lyrics from: Swim Good "If I feel like a Ghost, no Swayze, ever since I lost my baby"
Reference:
The movie Ghost starring Patrick Swayze and Baby reefers to Swayze’s love interest in the movie Dirty Dancing.
9 - Runaway Bride
Lyrics from: American Wedding "My pretty woman in a ballgown, I'm Richard Gere in a tux"
Reference:
I watched this movie when i was 12, but Julia Roberts character always runs away from weddings, shes a woman afraid of marriage and then she met Richard Gere so Frank is implying that Julia Roberts aka his male friend will eventually run away from him. Later on in the song he even says:
"But if you stay, oh if you stay you'll probably leave later anyway, it's love made in the USA"
ALSO:
Pretty Woman
Lyrics from: American Wedding "my pretty woman in a ballgown / i'm richard gere in a tux"
Reference: Also stars Richard Gere + Julia Roberts; Gere wears a tux in it
10 - Casino
Lyrics from: Acura Integurl (Extended Version) "You said one day I'll start up my car and it'll explode, well now that's the last time I'm letting you watch Casino alone"
Reference:
This is referring to the famous scene when Robert De Niro gets in his car and someone has planted a bomb under his seat, Frank is warning his girl that this is the last time hes gonna let her watch Casino alone cause she's terrified.
There's a lot more if you checkout my KTT thread & its a lot more visually pleasing, i hope you guys enjoyed it!
http://www.kanyetothe.com/forum/index.php?topic=3189777.msg205706841;topicseen#msg205706841 (Spoilers All) Am I missing something or is Jon Snow an idiot?
- He will not fail to notice that.
— Melisandre, ADWD
I'm specifically referring to Jon in ADWD. I love him as a character, but I'm writing here as though I detest his stupidity for effect.
There are a number of instances where he should have realized or considered something he heard or experienced.
- NOTE: This post wasn't meant to read like theory, but it necessarily does because I'm trying to point out some dumb things Jon should have picked up on.
TL;DR
What Jon should have figured out:
- That Melisandre was still after king's blood (and most likely didn't really want him to know).
- That he should have considered the one motive he knew Melisandre has (king's blood) when he pondered where the heck Mance went.
- That Val was in communicado with Mance.
- That the wildlings were up to something.
The entire bucket of chicken
"Kings and Dragons"
When Val says this to him, a number of things should have occurred to him:
- King's Blood
Jon's read the Jade Compendium, he knows about how Melisandre is after king's blood to wake stone dragons, etc. When Val tells him that Melisandre is still seeing kings and dragons, that should be a sign to him that Melisandre is still after the blood of a king.
Why does this matter?
Because resident dumbfuck Jon should have figured out this is probably related to why Mance didn't return with Alys Karstark. At the very least its the one motive he knows Melisandre has. It's clear from his thoughts that he never agreed to Mance going to Winterfell: Mance should have returned after scouting Long Lake and finding nothing, or after finding Alys.
If you think about it, Melisandre's entire motive in ACOK and ASOS was acquiring and sacrificing Edric Storm — and was only thwarted by Davos right when Stannis was going to give his approval — that's how dedicated she is to her search.
Thus, knowing that Melisandre was after king's blood should have been an obvious reason why Mance never came back and upon receiving the Pink Letter, why Mance was in Winterfell. It might not make sense, but as noted it's the one motive he knows she has. He should have at least considered it.
Thus, Jon should have realized Melisandre was still after king's blood and considered that a likely (if strange) motive for why Mance didn't come back
- How the heck does Val know this?
It should have occurred to Jon that Val (who's been under lock-and-key in the King's Tower) somehow knows information that seems privy only to Mance and Melisandre. This suggests that Mance (or Melisandre) has somehow been informing her. I eliminate Melisandre as a possibility because her POV suggests no such interactions with Val, which you would expect so close to the commencement of the rescue plan. This leaves only Mance.
While it's moving into speculative territory, if I had to find a motive for Mance telling Val it would be that he knew, had assurances or simply just gambled that she would be the one sent to try and talk to Tormund. If a gamble sounds too far-fetched, then the likely alternative is that he reached some sort of agreement with a Castle Black insider to help arrange Val's mission (presumably Melisandre).
Thus, Jon should have figured out that she and Mance were somehow communicating with each other, and that she was capable of sharing his knowledge with the wildlings.
- Why clue him in at all?
Val begins by telling Jon to keep 'monster' away from Melisandre, but then says that Melisandre knows he's not really Mance's son; therefore not in any real danger. So telling Jon about "kings and dragons" isn't about protecting Monster, it's about something else.
Given the implications that Mance told Val these details, why does she tell Jon?
- I would hazard that she wants him to know (or at least figure it out) that Mance wants him to know. If you think about it, it's almost a cryptic clue to what Mance's 'other' mission is — communicated to Jon in a setting without Mance or Melisandre present.
- Had he put the pieces together, it basically tells Jon that Val knows Mance is alive (and that he's about to send someone with that information out to the wildlings).
- Why be so cryptic?
Dolorous Edd and perhaps other crows were with Jon. Her conversation with Jon is cryptic enough to escape notice by the watch, but hopefully get picked up by Jon. I'm reminded of the code-worded conversations between De Niro and Pesci in Casino.
"Har. That's buggered, and no mistake. What was that about Mance? Has him in a cage, does he? How, when hundreds saw your red witch burn the man?"
Tormund doesn't even bring up the subject of Mance until Jon XIII when he (almost flippantly by my reading) says this.
- Why is Tormund so seemingly ambivalent?
Tormund, per the quote doesn't strike me as a person who really cares much about the loss of their leader who gave them purpose. This doesn't really gel with my impression of Tormund in ASOS. Then there's the really odd fact that none of the wildlings seem at all shocked or concerned about the notion that Mance is alive.
Now this per se isn't an indication that Tormund wanted to tell Jon.
- Shouldn't Jon have started figuring out it was because they knew?
This is hard to say. As noted, Tormund never discusses Mance, even obliquely. It's a stretch to say that this was somehow meant to be a communication to Jon that he was 'in on it'. There are many times with Tormund is speaking privately with Jon and could have told him. It's more likely that Tormund didn't want to say it at all. What's more likely is that GRRM was giving readers enough clues to figure it out.
Had Jon pieced Val's dialogue together, he might have looked closely at the possibility of the wildlings (Tormund in particular) being aware that Mance is alive.
Azor Ahai shall be born again amidst smoke and salt to wake dragons out of stone.
Melisandre says this when she is discussing the status of Stannis and Mance.
- The notable omission of king's blood
There is a notable omission of king's blood here. Actually, the only people in ADWD who think or say 'king's blood' are Aemon, Jon and Clayton Suggs. When you couple that with Melisandre's primary motivation of sacrificing a person with king's blood it would seem a subtle clue as to how hard (and secretively) she's working at trying to get it. This is again an implicit reminder of Melisandre's quest.
— What's really creepy is that she never mentions king's blood at all throughout the entire book; which is a significant departure from ACOK/ASOS.
— Also important, it seems Melisandre doesn't know that Jon has read the Jade Compendium and knows the prophecy himself
This seems to substantiate the notion that Melisandre doesn't want Jon to know what she's looking for.
Stone and Earth
If all is well in the world and these implications and quasi-theories make sense, then the remaining question would be why would you send Mance Rayder to Winterfell for anything related to king's blood?
To which I would answer with a wink and a smile (because we all know why).
Then I'd refer you to a quote from Melisandre in Jon I, ADWD:
- "When I gaze into the flames, I can see through stone and earth, and find the truth within men's souls. I can speak to kings long dead and children not yet born, and watch the years and seasons flicker past, until the end of days." ... ...Melisandre's red lips curled into a smile. "I have seen you in my fires, Jon Snow."
— Jon I, ADWD
The ellipsis only remove a portion of conversation where Jon misinterprets Melisandre's statement. Taking out that distracting element of the conversation, we can see that Melisandre is clearly saying she has seen into Jon's soul.
You probably find that to be a load of bullshit.
However, consider that the Winterfell tombs are made of stone buried deep in the earth, and reflect on the precise wording of Melisandre's speech in the quote.
After she says "I have seen you in my fires, Jon Snow." resident dumbfuck Jon Snow again misunderstands her. She outright says that.
- "Is that a threat, my lady? Do you mean to burn me to?"
"You mistake my meaning." She gave him a searching look.
—Jon I, ADWD
I assume at this point she's pretty much tired of him being dense as hell, and decides to drop the Ygritte bomb on him.
And finally we loop to the quote I started with: He will not fail to notice that. She implies that he has failed to notice things that she thought should have been obvious. Which in my mind, he has many times.
Frank Vincent (Goodfellas, The Sopranos) Dies at 78
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Frank Vincent, who played the vicious mob boss Phil Leotardo on The Sopranos, has died.
Vincent died Wednesday of complications from heart surgery in New Jersey, according to reports from The Blast and TMZ. Vincent also portrayed tough guys for director Martin Scorsese in Raging Bull, Goodfellas - as the real-life Gambino gangster Billy Batts, he with the memorable line, "Go home and get your shine box!" - and Casino.
On HBO's The Sopranos, Leotardo often butted heads with James Gandolfini's Tony Soprano as he eventually rose to become boss of the Lupertazzi crime family.
"He had a job to do and he thought, you know, 'This Soprano guy is from Jersey, what does that mean? We are New Yorkers! The Jersey mob is nothing - they don't even prick their fingers when they do the ceremony.' Some of the writing for Phil was just brilliant."
A native of North Adams, Mass., Vincent was raised in Jersey City, N.J. and became a drummer, performing with the likes of Paul Anka, Del Shannon, Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme and Trini Lopez and the Belmonts.
Scorsese saw Vincent playing a gambler who gets killed by the mob in The Death Collector - the film starred Joe Pesci, who helped get him the role - then cast him alongside Pesci and Robert De Niro as Salvi in the iconic boxing movie Raging Bull.
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Frank Vincent Dead: ‘Sopranos’ Star Dies at 78
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Frank Vincent, known for portraying Phil Leotardo on "The Sopranos," has died, his "Sopranos" co-star Vincent Pastore announced on Facebook.
John Gallagher, who directed Vincent in "Street Hunter" and "The Deli," also posted the news on Facebook.
Vincent began acting in 1976 when he co-starred in the low-budget crime film "The Death Collector" alongside Joe Pesci.
Vincent then acted in Martin Scorsese's "Raging Bull," which sparked the first of many collaborations between Vincent, Pesci, and Robert De Niro, including "Goodfellas" and "Casino."'.
Born in North Adams, Mass., and raised in Jersey City, N.J., Vincent often portrayed gangsters.
Vincent also acted in two of Spike Lee's films, "Do the Right Thing" and "Jungle Fever," as well as the movies "The Pope of Greenwich Village," "Wise Guys," "Night Falls on Manhattan," and "Shark Tale.".
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Joe Pesci Has Reportedly Turned Down Martin Scorsese's 'The Irishman'
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One of the biggest deals at the Cannes Film Festival this year was fledging studio STX ponying up a staggering $50 million for the international rights to Martin Scorsese's "The Irishman." It's a figure that matches the huge expectations that are greeting the movie, before a frame has been shot, that will see Scorsese potentially work with a cast including Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, and Harvey Keitel.
According to THR, Joe Pesci has reportedly turned down Scorsese's offer for a role in the movie.
Pesci has pretty much hung up his hat from acting, and hasn't appeared in a film since 2010's "Love Ranch," directed by Taylor Hackford.
Scorsese isn't the only offer that has come knocking on Pesci's door.
Can "The Irishamn" be made without Pesci? Definitely, but you have to bet that part of the reason STX plunked down $50 million was the allure of having the movie that would bring back the trio behind "Goodfellas," "Casino," and "Raging Bull." Not to mention it makes marketing a slam dunk as well.
For now, listen to Louis C.K. recount his meeting with Joe Pesci.
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