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Topic: Smurfs Reference in Donnie Darko!
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xSmurfettex
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posted 09-12-2004 07:17 PM
I was watching this really strange movie today called Donnie Darko (rated R), about this psycho kid who takes orders from a life-size rabbit... very strange. It got boring after a while. I don't recommend it.
Anyway... about 30 minutes into the movie, these three teenagers were talking about moving out of their town of Middlesex and finding 'a Smurfette', a definition being something I cannot say on this BBS. Anyway, they went into this whole thing about the Smurf Village and what the Smurfs' uh... secret lives are. I'd put up the whole text, but it seemed kind of innapropriate (for language and sexual purposes).
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posted 09-15-2004 12:23 PM
Hi, yes I have seen the Donnie Darko smurf "rant", agreed the language is not smurfy but the information given is all technically correct.
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Papa Smurf
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posted 09-15-2004 12:35 PM
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Originally posted by xSmurfettex:
I was watching this really strange movie today called Donnie Darko
I have to admit, xSmurfettex, that Donnie Darko is one of my favorite movies of the last few years. I wasn't expecting to like it, but I ended up absolutely loving it - I mean really loving it.
I grew up listening to the music featured in the film, songs like "Under the Milky Way Tonight", "The Killing Moon", and a personal favorite "Love Will Tear Us Apart" - so the movie was a nice little time warp. And there was even a hidden Morrissey reference, which was a nice touch.
Even though the movie is framed as a teen movie, I think it means more if you're a bit older...
As for the speech, I have an edited version I'm going to be posting, and I do agree it's a little blue (hah), but it's still rather interesting. I believe Donnie's comments regarding the Smurfs' private lives were a rather nice foreshadowing of his own fate. According to his argument, the Smurfs live a pointless life by depending upon the stork to reproduce (ahem) - he asks, "what is the point"? Donnie faces the same problem, as he knows "the world" will end soon, but interestingly becomes a walking response to Aristotle's idea of Fatalism - instead of what is or what will be, Donnie is able to answer "what could be" - living out a paradox we can only dream of...
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