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Great one-off movies

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Batman, May 29, 2016.

  1. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    Unlike Air Bud, who was the canine Bo Jackson.
     
  2. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    For that matter, when the hell did he have time to drive up to BFE Buxton and bury the box with the cash and the letter in it? Priority one, once he had the money, should have been getting the hell out of Maine.
    He also had to get from Shawshank to what I assume was Portland, on foot or hitchhiking, in a driving rain. So let's actually plot this out, in the most favorable timeline possible.
    9 p.m. - Lights out, Andy hits the tunnel.
    9:05 p.m. - He cracks open the sewer pipe and crawls inside.
    10:30 p.m. - Exits the sewer pipe. Figure it'd take a while to crawl 500 yards while stopping occasionally to vomit. Plus it's still storming when he exits, so it obviously didn't take him that long. He made good time.
    10:35 p.m. - Happy dance.
    11 p.m. - Showered off in the slackening rain, he starts making his way to town.
    6 a.m. - If he didn't stop or if he got a ride, he could have easily covered 10-15 miles in the six or seven hours before dawn.
    8 a.m. - He hits the first bank right as it opens. Meanwhile, back at Shawshank, wake up call and the head count begins.
    8:20 a.m. - Andy finishes up at the first bank. This is the one we see him at in the movie, since it's where he mails the ledger to the paper. He wouldn't have risked getting caught before he could've mailed it, and thus would've gotten rid of it as soon as possible.
    8:30 a.m. - Andy enters the second bank, just as it's discovered he's missing. His cell was on the very end of the cellblock, so it would've taken them a while to get to him.
    8:45 a.m. - Andy finishes his business at the second bank while all hell breaks loose at Shawshank.
    9:15 a.m. - Andy is in and out of Bank No. 3.
    9:45 a.m. - Andy is in and out of Bank No. 4, right as the tunnel is discovered. Remember, up until this point, they still aren't sure he's escaped, just that he's missing. They've also likely searched the cellblock and questioned other inmates, but are still just beginning their investigation.
    11:45 a.m. - Andy has visited four more banks while a search of the prison, tunnel and pipe is conducted, bringing his total to eight.
    12:45 p.m. - Andy is up to Bank No. 10 by the time they're certain he's escaped the prison grounds and the alert is actually sounded. Norton might have exercised caution in putting out an APB since Andy still could have been in the tunnel or the pipe, and considering he would've wanted Andy in his own hands to keep him from blabbing about the corruption.
    2:15 p.m. - Andy has visited three more banks while the APB is issued and a local search near the prison is organized, bringing the total to 13.
    4 p.m. - Andy has hit one more bank and bought the convertible, and heads out of town. Since this is a favorable timeline, let's say Buxton is on his escape route. He spends the night camped near the rock wall.

    So, maybe it's plausible. Norton would want him back in custody, but would also do everything he could to keep it under wraps. It also takes time to organize a statewide search for one inmate, who did a good job at blending into a large city possibly far from the prison, and who had a strong head start. Even at a generous 30-minute pace to get in and out of each bank and right on to the next one, though, it's still going to take him all day to get around and not just "that morning" as Red said.
     
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  3. EStreetJoe

    EStreetJoe Well-Known Member

    If you want a 1970s standalone movie, I submit "Blazing Saddles" for your approval.
    Nothing to say in a sequel and there's no way there would be a reboot, especially after how the TV series bombed after 1 episode.
     
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  4. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    The Notebook
     
  5. Vombatus

    Vombatus Well-Known Member

    There was a one episode TV series? Holy cow, commence the googling.
     
  6. Mr. Sunshine

    Mr. Sunshine Well-Known Member

    Diggstown
     
  7. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    Heartbreak Ridge has been on cable a lot this weekend, and I keep finding myself sucked into it. Clint Eastwood as an aging, tough as nails Marine gunnery sergeant in the early 1980s, trying to adapt to a changing world while whipping a ragtag recon platoon into shape. They come into their own during the invasion of Grenada. The premise and themes been done a million times before, but they still feel relevant today. No sequel or remake needed, necessary or viable, though.
     
  8. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Andy's whole plan was a huge risk, because it was established in the book and the movie that he had made a meteoric rise through the banking ranks, in order to be made a bank VP by the age of 30, he and his wife were well known socially at the country club, and his trial had been pretty sensationalistic and heavily covered in 1947.

    If Andy had been noteworthy for his meteoric rise to a VP position, there were probably 20 other guys aged 25-30 who hadn't risen to VP but were churning along as tellers, junior assistant accounting managers, etc etc etc who later became VPs when Andy went away.

    Nineteen years is a long time, but it isn't THAT long, and the odds would be pretty good some 27 year old assistant teller would now be a 46 year old senior manager at one of the Portland banks who would still recognize who Andy Dufresne was.
     
  9. EStreetJoe

    EStreetJoe Well-Known Member



    From Wikipedia's Blazing Saddles page:
    TV pilot
    A television pilot titled Black Bart was produced for CBS based on Bergman's original story. It featured Louis Gossett, Jr. as Bart and Steve Landesberg as his drunkard sidekick, a former Confederate officer named "Reb Jordan". Bergman is listed as the sole creator. The pilot did not sell, but CBS aired it once on April 4, 1975. It was later included as a bonus feature on the Blazing Saddles 30th Anniversary DVD and the Blu-ray disc
     
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  10. EStreetJoe

    EStreetJoe Well-Known Member


    But if they thought Andy was still in prison, they wouldn't be thinking to be on the lookout for Andy. They might think "that guy looks a little like Andy might, but Andy's locked up, so it can't be him"
     
  11. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    In the novella version, because Dufresne is described as ,"small and slight."

    In the m0vie, Dufresne was the 6-5 Tim Robbins, who would have been toweringly tall for 1947, and even noticeably tall for 1967.
     
  12. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    Similar, at least in the movie. Ghost lost a bunch of money, plus he missed the attention from playing the game, so he came back with the Broncos, where he got beaten up a lot.
     
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