The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
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The Walter Mitty is basically the template/probable influence for any modern fictional character that engages in really vivid daydreams/fantasy worlds because his life sucks/is boring otherwise.
Think a modern hardcore MMO player/Tabletop Gamer in a time before MMOs/Table Top RPGs ;P
Think a modern hardcore MMO player/Tabletop Gamer in a time before MMOs/Table Top RPGs ;P
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Yeah the trailer looks great. I feel like I had to read the short story (http://bnrg.eecs.berkeley.edu/~randy/mitty.html) like a dozen times throughout my school career.
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looks pretty good, visually at least
lots of free screenings this wed/thu
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | Advance Movie Screenings
lots of free screenings this wed/thu
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | Advance Movie Screenings
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saw this last night at a free screening, was ok. Good laughs, sweet and sentimental story, good date movie. Ultimately though pretty empty and bland, one of those movies you completely forget 10 minutes after walking out of the theater. I will say some really beautiful scenery shots of Iceland and parts of Asia. Worth a watch at home especially for waifu points, not worth a trip out to theaters.
I am not a big fan of Ben Stiller over all, but I watched this movie this weekend and it was actually quite good. I would compare it to something like "Stranger then Fiction" with Will Ferrell. Kind of a surreal, Gilliamesque?, style movie where Ben really underplays most of his normal goofiness and it really works well.
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Mitty is a daydreaming loner who had to start working at a young age and is now responsible for the photo-negatives of Life magazine. The magazine got sold and will publish a last paper issue before becoming fully digital. For the cover of the last issue it is decided to use the 24th photo of a reel sent by a globe-trotting star photograph. The problem is that Mitty got the reel, but it is missing N?24, that is supposed to be the Quintessence of Life. Hiding the fact by fear of being fired in the restructuring of the magazine, he goes on an adventure across the globe to find the elusive photographer only armed with the other pictures of the reel, the encouragements of his love interest and the realization that he has not lived much in his life.
Mitty misses the photograph in Greenland and Iceland and, with no more clues, goes back to New York. There he realizes than one of the photo is actually a detail of the piano at her mom's house. Asking her about the photograph leads to more clues that send Mitty in Afghanistan. In the mountains there he finds the photograph who tells him Mitty had the N?24 all along as it was in the wallet he sent him along with the reel. Sadly, at the peek of his desperation, Mitty had thrown the wallet away and as such N?24 is forever lost... except he threw it away at his mom's house and she kept it. Mitty and his love interest got fired, but the Quintessence of Life still reached the cover of the final issue and it's a picture of Mitty outside Life's building examining a contact sheet.
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You know I typed out like 5 pages of stuff but as I typed it out it made me really appreciate the movie even more than I had already did, you should watch it.Even if it's this shitty ripyou should watch it.
There's a lot of great symbolism throughout the movie but one of my favorite, even if it was kind of heavy handed, is his brief case. He religiously carries it with him through out the movie until you see less and less of it as he becomes more adventurous. Right up until the point where the shark shreds it. The briefcase dies at the same moment that he realizes that the scene before was real life and not a day dream. Really well done!
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Sounds cool, I'm more likely to see it now. From the previews it just looked like some boring ass office worker who daydreams about actually doing something in his life but doesn't do shit for two hours except day dream until he realizes that everything he needs in life is there for him.