The man with TWO BRAINS?

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cd_boy_33 — 19 years ago(January 10, 2007 07:55 PM)

Bowfinger is his (last) name

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Goodfella_1990 — 19 years ago(March 15, 2007 08:19 AM)

Yea main characters brain and the brain in the jar. Hmmm this is one of my favourite comedies

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ManlyStump — 17 years ago(September 10, 2008 02:04 PM)

Actually 'bowfinger' is also another term used to describe the V-sign or "two-fingered salute". And of course the two brains are Anne's and his own.

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wedisney — 18 years ago(May 11, 2007 06:06 PM)

There are two brains. The one of his wife (Kathleen Turner) and the one he is in love with (Sissy Spacek). He is a man with two brains (both of the women he loves, one body one mind).

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Movie_Tech — 18 years ago(July 01, 2007 12:13 AM)

Or he is torn between thinking with his big head and his little head. the scrotum can be referred to as a brain because of the way it looks when contracted.
The simplest answer is that the writers were doing an awful lot of cocaine.

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raf-33 — 18 years ago(July 16, 2007 04:56 PM)

No, I'm pretty sure the simple answer is that everyone has a brain, but he happens to also have one in a jar. For fu cks sake people! How do you imbeciles manage to put your damned clothes on without help?

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otiskariya — 18 years ago(July 17, 2007 02:03 PM)

It's a send up of the old B-movie science fiction, and "horror" titles. It is not literal, but the fact that he is a brain surgeon. And deals with brains all day. And yes the scrotum does look like a tightened brain.
I was adjusting your breasts. You fainted and they fell all out of whack.

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Eric-1226 — 18 years ago(August 06, 2007 07:57 PM)

It's a send up of the old B-movie science fiction, and "horror" titles. It is not literal, but the fact that he is a brain surgeon. And deals with brains all day.
otiskariya, your explanation is probably the best. Prior to this movie, there were many movies with "The Man With[**]" in the title - some of which were schlocky sci-fi movies. Do a search here on IMDb and you will see what I mean. Note that there is a 1972 B-movie called "The Thing With Two Heads," aka "The Man With Two Heads," and another one from 1963 called "The Man with the X-Ray Eyes."
Dr. Hfuhruhurr (or whatever his name was) was a brain surgeon dealing with extra brains in jars, and they wanted to spoof old sci-fi movies, so, it probably wasn't a huge stretch for the writers to come up with the name "The Man with Two Brains." Even somebody with half a brain could have done that.

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brodiebruce_405 — 17 years ago(July 06, 2008 07:20 AM)

His brain, and the one in the jar.
The English will not be pushed around much longer

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IamTVI — 15 years ago(November 01, 2010 09:58 AM)

The mind-body problem, i.e. the relationship of the mind to the body, is commonly seen as the central issue in philosophy of mind. Dualism and monism are the two major schools of thought that attempt to resolve the mind-body problem.
Substance Dualists argue that the mind is an independently existing substance, whereas Property Dualists maintain that the mind is a group of independent properties that emerge from, and cannot be reduced to the brain.
I think the suggestion here is that mind and body are not ontologically distinct kinds of entities hence the allusion to a "man with two brains".
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