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From: royg@netcom.com (Roy H. Gordon)
Subject: Re: Wicked, Bad, Scary Movies. (Recommendations anyone?)
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 08:10:10 GMT

The Horror of Dracula (1958) - Directed by Terence Fisher, with
	Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee.

	"Probably Hammer Films' best shocker..." (Maltin)


For a non-horror film with more than its fair share of terrifying moments:

Deliverance (1972) - Directed by John Boorman, with Burt Reynolds,
	Jon Voight, Ned Beatty, and Ronny Cox.

	Based on the James Dickey novel.  Dickey has a small, but not
	insignificant, role in the film which he plays quite well.
	
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
From: donnell@manowar.micro.umn.edu (Your Heinous)
Subject: Re: Shooting in circles (was: the absolute worst movie of all time, ...)
Organization: none
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 14:56:45 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.163553.11572@cs.ucla.edu> reiher@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Peter Reiher) writes:
>In article <chil.718797449@sfu.ca> chil@fraser.sfu.ca (Keith Lim) writes:
>>
>>I remember a scene in "The Untouchables" where the four leads
>>were sitting around a small table, and while they were talking, the camera
>>went round and round and round and round the table. 
>>
>>  ____>______>_____
>> /                 \
>> |        #2       |
>> ^   #1 Table #3   v Camera goes round and round and round and round...
>> |        #4       | (possibly in the opposite direction)
>> \____<______<_____/
>>
>>I'm sure there are other movies where the camera moves all over the place
>>while shooting continuously.
>
>This is one of Brian DePalma's favorite camera tricks.  He also used it
>in the recent "Raising Cain", and in "Body Double", and probably in some
>others that I forget.  
>
>Woody Allen is fond of inverting this shot - putting the camera in the 
>middle of a group of people and panning it around in a circle.  He did
>that in "Hannah and Her Sisters", and, more recently, in "Shadows and
>Fog".
>
>--
>		Peter Reiher
>		reiher@wells.cs.ucla.edu
>

DePalma has been doing this since he got enough budget to afford it. I think
he does it in "The Fury" too.

My favorite scene with the camera spinning around something, is in the
opening of Milos Forman's adaptation of "Hair". The girl singing 
"Age Of Acquarius" in the park, while the camera spins around her. 
Amazing.

					--Judex--

Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
From: funga@ecf.toronto.edu (FUNG Alexander Yok-Wai)
Subject: Re: DEAD AGAIN (*SPOILER*)
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Distribution: rec
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 21:29:51 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.215304.415@leland.Stanford.EDU> firestar@leland.Stanford.EDU (Lipton Ann Meredith) writes:
>In article <FOLMER.92Oct12095522@lambda.iesd.auc.dk> folmer@iesd.auc.dk (Lars Tengstedt) writes:
>>
>>
>>In hypnosis Amanda sees the male main character (can`t remember his
>>name) in her past life. She then wakes up and says something like: You
>>were there, You were trying to kill me. And we saw Mrs. Strauss in the
>>bed. That must meen that Amanda is Mrs. Straus, but then later we
>>learn during male characters hypnosis that HE was Mrs. Strauss.
>>
>>Would anyone like to commend on this and please try to explain it.
>>
>First of all, the male lead was Kenneth Branagh -- as both Mike Church and 
>Roman Strauss.  Remember his name -- he's a god and is not deserving of such 
>casual treatment.
>
Hmm...something looks wrong in his name - shouldn't there be a 'u' somewhere?
:)

BTW, the character's name was Grace, not Amanda.

In the entire set of flashback sequences, they were all third-person point
of views anyways until Mike's one finally revealed the switched identities.
I wouldn't attribute anything to whoever was in the flashbacks of whatever
character.


-- 
Alex (funga@ecf.toronto.edu)

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From: traveler@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,rec.arts.sf.movies
Subject: Re: "Stranger In A Strange Land" To Be Filmed
Date: 8 Oct 92 18:49:01 GMT
Reply-To: traveler
Followup-To: rec.arts.movies
Organization: University of Florida  (ufl.edu)
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4

In article <1992Oct1.214722.17093@hsv3.lsil.com>, mvp@hsv3.lsil.com (Mike Van Pelt) writes...
>In article <1992Sep30.052736.15480@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au> pete@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (Peter Alexander Merel) writes:
>>So [David Bowie] did "The Man Who Fell To Earth" instead.
> 
>*Bluch* what a wretched movie.
> 
>>Now me, I'd like Kyle Maclachlan (Cooper from Twin Peaks) to do it.
> 
>Ummmm... I don't know.  I think he'd do the mature Valentine
>Michael Smith well, but I don't see him being very believable
>as the wide-eyed innocent.

I think he did the innocent quite well in Blue Velvet, and
did a relatively good job in Dune too (although Dune was just
too weird in general...).  This would be a most intriguing casting
IMHO.

---------------------------------------------
Max Clarke				/o)\
TRAVELER				\(o/
---------------------------------------------
s u r r e a l i s t - a t - l a r g e
---------------------------------------------
From: anne@techunix.technion.ac.il (Anne Weill)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Gerard Depardieu
Date: 13 Oct 92 09:58:01 GMT
Organization: Technion, Israel Institute of Technology

assist@orion.oac.uci.edu (ASSIST Coordination Site) writes:



>I have seen a couple of other films with Depardieu but I can't recall
>the titles at this time.  If someone wants to add some titles to the
>above list, please do (as it might refresh my memory  :-)

I am sorry I cannot give the English titles , but here are some 
more movies with Depardieu:
Les Valseuses (one of his first movies)
Danton
Uranus
Trop Belle pour Toi 
Tous les Matins du Monde
From: bthompso@reed.edu (Benjamin Thompson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: ALIEN 3 soundtrack
Date: 12 Oct 92 19:29:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: reed.1992Oct12.192953.9064
Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR

In article <SS.92Oct12124336@wpi.WPI.EDU> ss@wpi.WPI.EDU(Scott Streeter)writes:
>>>>>> On 12 Oct 92 16:31:59 GMT, tmiller@prism.gatech.EDU(Thomas Miller) said>
>tmiller> Does anyone know if this is any good?  I heard a bit of it in
>
>The CD is in Surround. I was considering buying it because of this.
>
>--
> Scott Streeter                             Keeper of the Star Wars Archive
> ss@wpi.wpi.edu                             wpi.wpi.edu        130.215.24.1

I have the soundtrack to Alien 3 and it is quite good.  I find it hard
to listen to for long periods of time since it is *so* dynamic.  The
female voices mix extremely will with the background instruments.  No
other soundtrack of recent origin is able to touch the mix of
cyber-buzz and crafty noise that this soundtrack achieves.  I haven't
had an opportunity to listen to it on a surround system yet, so I will
have to check that out.  Are there any other soundtracks along these
lines that someone else can recommend?  I'd be quite interested.
Thanks.


-- 
Benjamin Thompson                     My views are my own, as far as I know...
bthompso@reed.edu                     I go to Reed College --- You can trust me
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From: burt@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Burt Voorhees)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,rec.arts.sf.movies
Subject: Re: "Stranger In A Strange Land" To Be Filmed
Date: 8 Oct 92 16:26:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: aupair.burt.718561566
Followup-To: rec.arts.movies

otto@jybox.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) writes:

>beede@sctc.com (Mike Beede) writes:

>> jsp@uts.amdahl.com (James Preston) writes:
>> >Or Arnold Schwarzenegger?  Gee, it's kind of fun trying to think of the
>> >worst possible actor for a role like that.  Any other suggestions?
>>
>> Peter Sellers.

>That's unfair, he's dead.  What about Marilyn Monroe in the ash tray ?

How about Jack Nickelson?  With Cher, Suzan Sarandon, & Michelle Peifer as
Jubel's three secrataries?  Shades of Witches of Eastwick.

  Or, on the other side, how about Nickelson for Jubel and Tim Robbins for
MVS?
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Monday, 12 Oct 1992 10:40:53 CDT
From: <U28698@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: next ah-nold film
Distribution: rec

Ah-nold will be appearing in a short role in the very-soon-to-be released, "FEE
D", directed by, I believe, Kevin Rafferty (of Atomic Cafe and Roger & Me).  Fo
r those Die-Hard Ah-nold fans, you haven't seen every side of him, until you've
 seen him in this.

Salam (Peace).
Omer.
From: cosulliv@fraser.sfu.ca (Christina Marie O'Sullivan)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Congrats on Genie Nomination
Date: 15 Oct 92 16:51:42 GMT
Distribution: ca
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada


Congrats to Don McKellar for Best Actor Genie nomination "Highway 61."  A bewilderment that no "Original Screenplay" nomination accompanied it.
Christina O'Sullivan
cosulliv@sfu.ca
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC 
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
From: gmark@cbnewse.cb.att.com (gilbert.m.stewart)
Subject: Re: Gerard Depardieu
Organization: AT&T
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 01:57:18 GMT

In article <1992Oct10.164245.9153@microsoft.com> frankm@microsoft.com (Frank R.A.J. Maloney) writes:
>In article <nnvzabl@rpi.edu> Matt Garretson writes:
>>While I'm not quite a fanatic, I've liked him ever since I saw JEAN DE FLORETTE.
>>I'll have to cath up on his older stuff. I hate the way everyone in the US
>>pronounces his last name "Depardoo".
>
>How special for you.

I thought I should mention that certain factions in America have decided
that anyone who mispronounces any American name anywhere in the world
will be sought by special services agents and shot.  It's because we
believe our names are as special and holy as those in the rest of the
world.  I personally have decided that if anyone says my name with an
accent of any kind, I should submit their name(s) to the local
WASFIAARANTWTWSAAAEWDSLU* chapter.

* We Are So F**king Important And Anal-Retentive And Nasty That We Think
We Should Annoy And Abuse Everyone Who Doesn't Speak Like Us.

This announcement has been made in the name of "sensitivity".

GMS
From: roxannen@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: RE: the absolute worst movie of all time, so bad it's bad
Keywords: BAD MOVIE
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 92 21:07:03 PDT
Reply-To: roxannen@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us



Well, I still haven't seen my all time lowest ranked film, so here's my
$.02:

Treasure of the Four Crowns

-- 
roxannen@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us

"Right now, Time is having it's way with you - or is it?"
From: acct069@carroll1.cc.edu (Ron)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: THX envy
Date: 9 Oct 92 03:59:31 GMT
Organization: Lightning Systems, Inc.

In article <6OCT199219263590@pavo.concordia.ca> ts_rost@pavo.concordia.ca (*TsR) writes:
>In article <1992Oct5.223721.4518@cs.ucla.edu>, coleman@rocky.cs.ucla.edu (Mike Coleman) writes...
>>awalsh@mta.ca (Andrew Walsh) writes:
>>|I hope all of you who have seen a movie in THX or Digital rot in 
>>|hell. I'm stuck here on the East Coast of Canada where the nearest
>>|THX theater is in Montreal, and it's probably showing "Stay Tuned"
>>|. I hate you all. 
>
>
>Dont they have a THX theatre out there? Not even in Halifax?
>
>Tanja s. Rosteck                  ts_rost@pavo.concordia.ca
>```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````

This is what I show that Canada has in the way of THX Certified Theatres.

Ron

Listing of THX Certified Theatres                          Updated: June 1 1992
---------------------------------                          --------------------

This list is the official list of THX Certified Theatres as published by the
LucasArts Entertainment Company - THX Division.

     Name of Theatre               |Screens| are THX | City        | Country
===============================================================================
Foreign Contries                   |       |         |             |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Famous Players Station Square Cins.|   1   |    #1   | Burnaby     | Canada
Famous Players Paramount           |   1   |    #1   | Edmonton    | Canada
Famous Players Sussex Centre Cins  |   1   |    #1   | Mississauga | Canada
Cineplex Odeon Le Faubourg Cinema  |   2   |  #1 & 2 | Montreal    | Canada
Famous Players Imperial Theatre    |   1   |    #1   | Montreal    | Canada
Cineplex Odeon York Theatre        |   1   |    #1   | Toronto     | Canada
Famous Players Eglinton Theatre    |   1   |    #1   | Toronto     | Canada
Cineplex Odeon Granville Theatre   |   2   |  #2 & 7 | Vancouver   | Canada

-- 
Ron                      | Lightning Systems, INC. | Apple // Forever!
acct069@carroll1.cc.edu  | (414) 363-4282  62megs  | Van Halen Rules! 
carroll1!acct069@uwm.edu | 14.4k HST/V.32bis       | Bill & Ted are cool!
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
From: fernee@newton.physics.uq.oz.au (Mark Fernee)
Subject: Re: the absolute worst movie of all time, so bad it's bad
Organization: Physics Dept. The University of Queensland
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 06:57:22 GMT

In article <1992Oct14.222245.11887@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>, Joseph.J.Marcheso.Jr.@dartmouth.edu (Joseph J. Marcheso Jr.) writes:
|> 
|> 
|> We're back and now where taking a poll on our floor and the candidates
|> are 
|> 
|> The Sisterhood
|> Return of the Swamp Thing
|> Any Pee-Wee movie
|> The Sex O'Clock news
|> Casablanca (just kidding)
|> Rad
|> Cool as Ice
|> 
|> any support?
|> 
|> Joe

I don't see Roller Blade on that list. I refuse to believe that there could be six
movies worse than Roller Blade. If I had a Sony handy-cam and a paddle pop stick, I 
could make a better movie. Oh, I don't think it had any real actors in it, just people 
that were walking bye at the time.

Any comments?

Mark.

Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
From: ckt4x@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (H. R. Costigan)
Subject: Re: The Dark Backwards
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 16:45:29 GMT

01mbmccabe@bsu-ucs.uucp writes:
> Has anyone heard of or know what happened to/with a film I heard called The
> Dark Backwards?  I saw a preview on The Entertainment Channel about a year ago,
> but nothing since.  
> 
> 			-Matt McCabe
> 			 B.S.U.

It's out on video now.  Saw it over the summer and found it
extremely humorous.  It's pretty twisted.  Bill Paxton (as is
usual with him) steals the movie.
--
                               Curt Tsui
                           curt@Virginia.EDU                                  
    "I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists -- neither
                takes life as it is." -- Stanley Kubrick
From: bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Insects on film
Date: 10 Oct 92 03:05:03 GMT
Organization: HHMI/Human Genetics, Univ of Pa.

In article <1992Oct9.230900.15845@SSD.intel.com>, niche@ssd.intel.com 
(Dominic Allori) writes:

>>	I'm trying to compile a list of films in which insects play
>>an important role.  Some I have already discovered are:

>  Another Movie is Squirm.  It's about a bunch of worms killing people

Sorry, worms are even farther from being insects than spiders are!!!

Think segmented body, exoskeleton, and six legs...     

Greg Bole                                "What kind of mother would I be if I
bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu              didn't give my girls tits...tips?"
                                             Dustin Hoffman in _Tootsie_
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
From: kaminl@rpi.edu (Matt Garretson)
Subject: Re: * The NEW Movie Goofs list!!!!!! (BLADERUNNER)
Summary: Is this considered a "goof"? 
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 01:01:12 GMT

I don't know if this is considered a goof, or if maybe someone has mentioned it,
but in BLADERUNNER, you can see the cables holding up the police vehicles
in almost all the street scenes.
From: daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom)
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 15:36:42 GMT
Subject: Re: 1492:Conquest of Pronunciation
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies

In rec.arts.movies, <U28698@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:

>Yes, I agree that Columbus was in the search for a shorter route to the orient.
>  That was his mission, on paper.  His goal (at least in the film) was more to
>prove a point:  that the earth was round, or moreover, that society at the time
>  still didn't know EVERYTHING. 

Actually, it was common knowledge among educated people LONG before
Columbus that the world was round.

doug
From: jsp@uts.amdahl.com (James Preston)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Hero and Meet John Doe
Date: 8 Oct 92 18:45:21 GMT
Reply-To: jsp@pls.amdahl.com
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

reiher@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Peter Reiher) writes:

}In "Meet John Doe", a reporter and a bum intentionally create a
}hero, to create circulation.  

This is kind of a nitpick, but if I remember the movie correctly, it was
the reporter who intentionally created the phony John Doe on her own.  It
was only after the story got out of hand and people like the mayor were
clamoring to actually meet this guy that the reporter had to go out and
find a real person to play him.  Gary Cooper's character wasn't in on
the creation.

--James Preston

Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
From: jor1@hera.uucp (24315-rich)
Subject: Re: David Lynch movies
Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 17:16:12 GMT
Summary: David Lynch Directs
Keywords: peche kriek framboise

In article <1992Oct1.210820.22678@persoft.com>, gelly@persoft.com (Brewing Chemist Mitch) writes:
> Aside from the obvious _Twin Peaks_ film, _Blue Velvet_ , _Eraserhead_, and
> _Wild at Heart_, what other movies has David Lynch directed ??
> 
> Also, it turns out that *I* was the sixth replicant, not Deckard. |-)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>   Mitch
> 
> 
> -- 
> --- gelly@persoft.com -------------------------------------------------------
>          When you go in for a job interview, I think a good thing
>           to ask is if they ever press charges.  -- Jack Handey
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

I think he also directed "The Elephant Man".
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
From: wildman@athena.mit.edu (Timothy Worsley)
Subject: Re: Name this Movie, win Gold Ingots
Reply-To: eprice@sql.sybase.com
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 01:08:58 GMT

In article <1992Oct5.184034.11714@tandem.com>
Montague_Kevin@Tandem.com (Kevvy Kev) writes:

[describes movie]

>Anyone?
>
>Help?

WHITE HOT (1989) is it I think.  I saw it on video, rented it for no
particular reason; it was categorized by Videosmith (incorrectly IMHO)
as an "Action" flick.  It's just a stupid anti-drug movie.  *Really*
stupid.

Ciao,

-Ed (not Tim), eprice@sql.sybase.com (not wildman@...)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
From: sdt8s@curry.edschool.Virginia.EDU (Stephen Daniel Tilson)
Subject: Re: casting for neuromancer 
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 04:51:54 GMT

zippy@cs.brandeis.edu  writes:
> I'd pick Gary Oldman (Sid and Nancy, JFK) for the role of Case, Gary
> Busey (Predator II) for Armitage, and ... hmm ... Sean Young for
> Molly.
> 
> Newman would be a bad choice for Armitage - he's got the eyes for the
> role, but he's not good looking in the generic brick sort of way that
> the character should be.
> 
> --Pat

I'd go with John Cusack as Case, Stephen Lang as Armitage,
Elizabeth Perkins for Molly.

It's too late to be writing this stuff.

Steve
--
D.A.M.: Mothers Against Dyslexia
Steve's address is no longer sdt8s@poe.acc.virginia.edu;
I got booted to a new machine: sdt8s@curry.edschool.virginia.edu.
I'm working on a new .sig but not as we speak.
From: dlee@oasys.dt.navy.mil (David Lee)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Manchurian Candidate * SPOILERS *  Was - Re: What's the plot of the Manchurian candidate?
Date: 13 Oct 92 19:35:57 GMT
Reply-To: dlee@oasys.dt.navy.mil (David Lee)
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

In rec.arts.movies, hhtra@usho21.hou281.chevron.com (T.M.Haddock) writes:
> Huh... I think it's more like this:  *******  SPOILERS *******

> Frank Sinatra is on patrol with Lawrence Harvey and others in Korea.
> They are captured and brainwashed.  Only Harvey is brainwashed to kill
> because of him being a "momma's boy".  The others are done to forget
> what happened and to remember something else that makes Harvey out to
> be a Hero.  With a heroic war son, this helps his step-father get
> selected to be a Vice President.  (Too many skeletons to be President?)
> Anyway, Harvey's job is to kill the President (at the inauguration?)
..etc..



The action is supposed to take place during the nominating convention..
The target is the party's presidential candidate while Harvey's step-
father is the vice-presidential candidate..He is too much of a "baffoon"
to be elected president or be the party's candidate.. Hence the plot
to shoot the presidential candidate on the convention platform and have
Havey's step-father cradle the bloody candidate in his arms for all
to see and gain sympathy..while he then gives a stirring speech about
the Communist plot..

Harvey is chosen because his mother and step-father are forever telling
the Amercian media about the number of Communist in the government and
the plot to take over the U.S... Harvey is made a war hero and gains
access to important people while giving his mother and step-father some
publicity in politics..

"The Manchurian Candidate" was one of the first of the great assassin
movies with "brain-washing" as a plot....
.
.
.
..
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
From: gee@col.hp.com (Ken Gee)
Subject: Re: Billy Jack questions....
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 20:30:49 GMT
Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division

Tom Laughlin played a bit part in 'South Pacific.'  He was the pilot on the
plane that flew Cable onto the island. I saw him interviewed on CNBC a few 
months ago.  He looked like you could fit 2 Billy Jacks into his present
frame.

Ken


Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
From: gj@sansome.UUCP (Gerry Johnson)
Subject: best movie titles
Organization: Sansome
Date: 13 Oct 92 03:19:21 GMT

I want to know what people's favorite movie titles are. I mean those titles
that are so good you want to see the movie without even knowing what it's
about. Those titles that are like a line of poetry.
From: hship@sw.stratus.com (Howard Ship)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: DEAD AGAIN (*SPOILER*)
Keywords: *** SPOILERS **
Date: 14 Oct 92 18:32:40 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.















In article <1bhkuiINN2vu@seven-up.East.Sun.COM>, htatkow@thearc.East.Sun.COM (Helene Tatkow - Sun East Coast IR Development) writes:
> 
> >In hypnosis Amanda sees the male main character (can`t remember his
> >name) in her past life. She then wakes up and says something like: You
> >were there, You were trying to kill me. And we saw Mrs. Strauss in the
> >bed. That must meen that Amanda is Mrs. Straus, but then later we
> >learn during male characters hypnosis that HE was Mrs. Strauss.
> >
> >Would anyone like to commend on this and please try to explain it.
> 
> Does anyone remember when Roman gives Margaret a gift (an ankle bracelet, I
> think) and says that this now means that they are now halves of the same person?
> I thought that this was the pre-cursor to finding out that Amanda/Grace and
> Mike were both "part of the same person".
> 
> Helene


The ankelet is KEY to the entire movie.  That is why Strauss let himself be convicted
of murder when he knew he was innocent (opening scene: "I loved my wife.").  He wanted
to die for purely rational reasons:  by dying, he would be set free to find Margaret
in the next life.  She meanwhile (as Mike) was looking for Strauss (as Amanda).  He
is lying when he says "I'm not looking for Mrs. Right.  I'm looking for Mrs. Right-Now."
Wrong.  He just hasn't seen Mrs. Right (Amanda/Grace/Strauss) yet.  

-- 
"I can't believe I had the Anti!"
Howard_Ship@vos.stratus.com
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