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Originally Posted by DoubleLatte
I taped it and watched it twice. Loved it. Though I was a little (just a little) disappointed that Wilt's creator wasn't a girl. All in all, the theories weren't too far off from Wilt having been a role model and a fatherly figure to this little boy. He even called his creator "my boy", making Wilt sound even more fatherly than your typical IF, which I found irresistibly sweet. And the part were he holds the crying little IF and comforts her? Two words: father material. ;3 I'm definitely getting up early tomorrow to catch the rerun!
I didn't get that either. :3
Again, that didn't work for me either. The amputated arm? Okay. But losing his eye in the manner he did didn't exactly strike me as predetermined for the character. It just seemed more convinient than realistic. Same thing I keep wondering: how does an eye go about becoming bent and plastic-like from getting bludgeoned with a basketball? I didn't quite buy into it, either, though the concept tugged at the heartstrings, definitely.
Another thing that'll probably keep me up all night: Exactly what kind of Spanish do Nina and Eduardo speak? Some of their conversations left me scratching my head and I constantly wondered if Nina's use of words might have been slang from other Latin countries. Pollo duro, which actually translates to "hard chicken", could either be (unsuccesfully) trying refer to "tough chicken", in which case it would have been gallina; unless the word pollo duro holds a different meaning in another Spanish-speaking country. Eduardo's and Nina's conversations were a horrible mish-mash of English and Spanish that it was just hard to follow and understand without the captions on. Even then, much of what they said hardly made sense to me.
The only thing that bears any true resemblance to the Spanish Mexicans speak is Eduardo's reference to pesos (the currency used in Mexico) in "Emancipation Complication."
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I don't get the eye part, either. An eyeball often will atrophy back into the socket long after a serious injury, but it usually swells first due to blood vessels breaking inside. That would not explain how it becomes artificial-like with a rattly "pupil", though since the pupil isn't a solid object but a hole, or aperture, into the eye. The arm I can understand; with that many breaks it would have been impossible to set properly even if Wilt had gotten immediate medical attention, which he probably didn't. Back in those days, they didn't have some of the medical advances that allow doctors to salvage badly-broken limbs today. Still, with fractures that bad, and that numerous, the main arteries would have seriously crimped, shutting of the blood supply to the arm. You don't wanna know what would have happened afterwards, but suffice it to say that Wilt would have wound up one very sick dude. Sorry for being so graphic, but I've done volunteer work at a vet's, so I'm pretty familiar with how such injuries progress.
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Originally Posted by Fomalhaut
Okay... since I won't see this movie for ages, I have read the spoilers.
FINALLY! Though I have written a fanfic about this as well, I'm happy they have proved all those violent, angsty or worse ones wrong!  |
Well, what happened to Wilt WAS violent; I mean, when Larry(who has to weigh close to half a ton)falls on Wilt's arm, you can literally hear the bones snapping and crunching and see the look of agony and shock on Wilt's face. It's not gory and bloody, but it was pretty rough to watch, especially knowing that Larry INTENDED to hurt Wilt in one way or another, to keep him and his boy from winning, and felt no remorse about it, either. It may not have been the result of abuse by his creator(furtherest thing from it, thankfully), but you cannot get any more angsty that Wilt running off, badly injured, but thinking nothing of his own safety and well-being, only that he'd let down the most important person in the world to him, and was too ashamed to face him, and that little boy blaming himself for what happened to Wilt, making HIM too ashamed to go and look for him.
I still am reeling from this movie-could barely sleep last night at all! It did prove one of my far-out theories correct though, and that was the father-son relationship between Wilt and his creator. As someone pointed out, Wilt does not even speak of Jordan as his "creator", but refers to him as "my boy" and "my kid", in the exact same way a father would refer to his son. Jordan never talks down to Wilt as though he's inferior in any way, but jokes around with him and treats him as a respectable adult, acknowledging Wilt's decisions. Although nothing was ever mentioned of Jordans' real father, it would not be surprising if he was absent, possibly deceased, and the kid subconciously created this wonderful being not only to show him how to play basketball, but to be that missing father-to show him how to be a better person, as he puts it, which is what fathers ought to do. That end credit scene, hilarious as it was, just reinforced that notion that even though Jordan is older by a few years, Wilt still thinks of him as his son(and still a little kid-parents and grandparents never can quite accept that their baby has grown up).
By the way, did anyone catch the voice credits? I swear that the long-haired guy in jail, the one in the middle, sounded an awful lot like Larry the Cable Guy.
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