Why did Spader had to go to the bathroom twice? Strange scene?
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unclebob-7 — 18 years ago(September 24, 2007 10:51 AM)
When arriving in the house of his friend in the beginneing of the movie.
Andie Mc Dowell lets him in and he has to go to the bathroom immedeately (even before saying hello). strange #1.
Then after 5 minutes he has to go again strange #2.
My first thought he's a crack junkie.. but following the movie he was not so why this strange scene?? -
Radiant_Rose — 18 years ago(September 25, 2007 03:33 AM)
That has happened to me, at home. Fortunately, seldom (perhaps never) at someone else's home. When I get stressed, I suffer from an irritable bladder and irritable bowel syndrome (I am on tablets for the latter.)
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unclebob-7 — 18 years ago(September 26, 2007 12:43 AM)
I never had that so i didnt know about it.
Apparently my detection of a strange scene was also a false alarm
Still weird and ''unuseful'' scenes like that make me wonder about the process of writing the script and shooting the movie how they have meetings about these scenes and what the people decide about it. i think there is a chance they wanted us to see these scenes completely different but the makers simply did not succeex in making it come across as they originally wanted.
Not a big problem
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Radiant_Rose — 18 years ago(September 26, 2007 05:49 AM)
You misunderstand.
I agree that it is unusual and strange to put a scene like that in a film!
However, it is not "strange" in the sense of being incomprehensible.
The scriptbook, which I bought for under 4 quid from amazon, was very enlightening. Pity about the naked unicycling line being deleted.
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Tarna85 — 18 years ago(December 28, 2007 10:24 PM)
I'm still waiting on getting the film back off a friend (i don't think i will haha) would someone be able to upload that scene of graham and ann on youtube?
If no one can thats fine, but if they can .thanks!
like someone already said i think he just had a weak bladder, though i can't remeber there first scene together all that vivdly anymore.:( -
orangeblossommos — 18 years ago(February 17, 2008 04:51 PM)
I just saw this today. Graham asks to use the bathroom, and then comes back; when Ann says "that was quick," he says "False alarm."
I have had instances where I thought I had to go and then found out I didn't, road trips will have that affect sometimes -
Victover — 18 years ago(February 28, 2008 04:00 PM)
May be so but it wasn't a good feeling at all, for sure. I'm more for the idea of inserting a bit of nature from the beginning, since evrthng was so natural the rest of the movie.
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Radiant_Rose — 18 years ago(February 25, 2008 06:22 AM)
That's why indy and I had the disagreement about his "communicating non-verbally", and I said that he would say things about himself that he didn't need to, as well as just not lying.
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hillygirl — 17 years ago(June 10, 2008 09:46 PM)
well here's my theory:
i don't think graham actually had to pee or poo. keep in mind that he and anne are quite intimate with one another almost immediately and despite his proclaimed impotency, they eventually have sex. (if not during the videotaping session, then they've at least had some since, because she appears to be now living with him.) also keep in mind that graham stopped at a filling station to change and shave, and presumably go to the bathroom, just before pulling into anne and john's driveway.
i believe that graham went to the bathroom to calm a sexual urge. no, i doubt he had a sudden erection and needed to beat off in 15 seconds, but i do feel like he needed to run out of the room and catch his breath and get into his "old college buddy" persona so as not to give his game away just yet. i think you can tell when anne opens the door to him that he's taken aback by her (she's quite fetching after all), enough so that eventually he lets her into his life. where are you going to go after you've just been invited in by a stranger whom you have the hots for? the bathroom, of course! -
creaturefeeture — 16 years ago(September 04, 2009 01:21 PM)
My thoughts exactly.
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Jaythestingray — 17 years ago(October 10, 2008 07:15 AM)
Yeah I really just think it was there to show us that he was a strange and unusual character. Also, it kind of shows that he was "moved" when he met Andie's character. I dont really feel the scene is important but I dont think it should have been removed.
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Radiant_Rose — 17 years ago(January 14, 2009 05:36 AM)
Spader didn't have to go to the bathroom twice. Graham did.
It is a well-known fact that all stars are carefully modified so that they never need to go to the toilet or do undignified things, ever.
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AssetsonFire — 17 years ago(January 08, 2009 04:29 AM)
It relates to his impotence. He can't get an erection in other people's presence, similarly he can't piss in their presence. The fact that after a few more words with McDowell he's able to piss presages the development of their emotional relationship later in the film.
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