Talk:Grosse Pointe Blank

message: Article states:  "Blank finally opens the envelope containing his orders for the job that he's been sent on and finds that he has been sent to the town to kill Debi's father. Blank then experiences an existentialist transformation when he has to decide between his career or his love for Debi."  From my viewing of the film, the "existentialist transformation" occurs during the dance, after meeting a former classmate and her adorable toddler.  His reaction to opening the envelope, "dumb f**king luck," to me indicates he knew at that moment the assignment was the key to winning Debi back, by saving the life of her father. --Davecampbell 22:56, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Existentialist Transformation 

message: "White Lines" from Grandmaster Flash is missing (ironically played a few minutes after Martin is offered coke during the dance.) This may not have appeared on the official soundtrack for I will be adding it with a note that it was not included on the soundtrack until i can see the movie again in a few days to pick up other songs i may have missed and had a chance to review the soundtrack listing and compare the two, or until someone else comes along and fixes it.VXbinaca 02:55, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Missing music from the Soundtrack section

message: Some reference in the article to the various references to '80s-era activism and values shared by Martin and Debi (Martin's refusal to participate in a Rainbow Warrior-style attack, the poster on Debi's wall for a protest at Seabrook (see Clamshell Alliance#Popular Culture), etc.), and the resulting mutual dislike between Martin and Debi's father, might be in order. --Davecampbell 22:56, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Activism in the 80s 

message: Unless someone can come up with a convincing citation for that line, I'm going to remove it soon. I fail to see how a guy using a jumping kick to knock an assassin's gun out of his hand, engaging him in a fight scene featuring leaping and spinning kicks, and finally killing him with a pen is realistic.
: In 2011 Complex magazine list the fight at number 13 on its list of 50 most stylish fights.
: I'd have described it as "hard hitting", it is a short fast fight scene that looks like it hurt. Anyway not sure where I'd add this to the article since there's no awards section, and the Production section doesn't go into detail about the fight choreography or the fact that Cusack trained for years with Urquidez. (Other stuff ... Influence Twenty Years Soundtrack James Berardinelli ... death of Tom Jankiewicz) Maybe I'll find more and be able to expand the article and find somewhere suitable to add any of it at a later date . -- 109.76.208.229 (talk) 00:39, 11 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Most realistic fight scene" 

message: This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 01:36, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: Is a neckbrace really that noteable? Lots42 (talk) 13:46, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neckbrace 

message: : the target is Bart Newberry, Debi's father, a journalist whose column have gotten him into hot water with one of Martin's clients.
As I misremember it, papa was about to testify in a major corruption case; I don't remember anything about journalism.  Can someone else confirm either way? —Tamfang (talk) 06:08, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  why whack daddy? 

message: In the Ultimart (which was built on the site of childhood home), Martin quips, "You can't go home again, but you can shop there," a reference to (or from) the novel "You Can't Go Home Again" by Thomas Wolfe which also has a "bad boy" who comes home to find his town changed and in the grip of real estate fever. 96.233.178.83 (talk) 12:09, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  More Trivia 

message: An old revision was removed as it was too speculative, but can anyone find sources to support the claimed alternative draft versions and suggestion that direct sequels were considered. -- Horkana (talk) 23:25, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Production 

message: The Lake Shore Drive aerial shot was indeed the only shot in the movie actually in Grosse Pointe, however, the link goes to an entry about Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, not the one in Grosse Pointe (for which an article doesn't exist). I have removed the link. Alisterus (talk) 21:48, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lake Shore Drive 

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