“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain. … Time to die.”
So much has been written about those few words at the end that Bob whispers into Charlottes’ ear. We can’t hear them. They seem meaningful for both of them. Coppola said she didn’t know. It wasn’t scripted. Advanced sound engineering has been used to produce a fuzzy enhancement. Harry Caul of The Conversation would be proud of it, but it’s entirely irrelevant. Those words weren’t for our ears. Coppola (1) didn’t write the dialog, (2) didn’t intentionally record the dialogue, and (3) was happy to release the movie that way, so we cannot hear. Why must we know? Do we need closure? This isn’t a closure kind of movie. We get all we need in simply knowing they share a moment private to them, and seeing that it contains something true before they part forever.
- Roger Ebert on Lost In Translation
STAR WARS CHARACTERS » Obi-Wan Kenobi
“Why do I get the feeling you’re going to be the death of me?”
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Worst decision they ever made: cutting this out of the film. People would’ve looked so differently towards Loki if they had kept this in the film. This is where the whole ‘I never wanted the throne, I just wanted to be your equal’-thing comes from. Loki was telling the truth.
I think the main reason a lot of these Loki scenes were cut is that he was being portrayed as a little too sympathetic. Yes, Loki’s entire angle is that he’s a sympathetic villain, but he is still the villain - he’s already pulled a trick that resulted in the deaths of two Asgardian guards, after all. By the end of the movie he’s trying to kill his brother and commit genocide, so there has to be some buildup to that. Loki in the deleted scenes was played with a cheerful smile and seemingly heartfelt emotion, which doesn’t quite fit. He’s more effective when you don’t know if he’s telling the truth or not - maybe he doesn’t want the throne, but he sure as hell takes it. And in this case, keep in mind that he could be acting for Frigga and Odin, the only two people he seems to really want to impress.
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