Did you ever watch a movie just to find some of its interesting details and continuity errors? I thought it would be fun to discuss that about Mozart and the Whale. Here are two to get started:
(1) In the begining of the movie Isabelle's phone number is listed as 555-8364. But when Donald calls her for the first time on the pay phone, he dials 256-4875.
(2) There are no cell phones... at least none that I can see. The story certainly takes place during the present, given the XM radio, fancy answering machines, and LCD monitor on Donald's desk at work. But there seems to be no cell phones anywhere, not even among the hundreds of college students walking to and fro near the end of the movie.
(chuckle) Do you also highlight all the typos and editing errors while you read books? I do. I gave the last list of errors to the editor. However I didn't tell the editor that I also counted how many times each character shivered/shook and how many times the textures of fabrics were described. As I explained to a friend, it might sound a little OCD but it's as valid as people entertaining themselves with word search puzzles.
(chuckle) Do you also highlight all the typos and editing errors while you read books? I do. I gave the last list of errors to the editor. However I didn't tell the editor that I also counted how many times each character shivered/shook and how many times the textures of fabrics were described. As I explained to a friend, it might sound a little OCD but it's as valid as people entertaining themselves with word search puzzles.
Yes, I do underline typos in books, but I don't go so far as to tell the editor.
I'd really like to see this movie and don't know where to get it. I HAVE to see this now. I love indie movies, ones that involve romance, and this would be a great movie for me to see.
I'd really like to see this movie and don't know where to get it. I HAVE to see this now.
I just bought it on the first on-line DVD store that Google turned up. That would be http://www.dvdempire.com. You might be able to find it in a Borders or Barnes & Nobles, but it's a little cheaper on-line.
Am i the only one who thought this movie was rubbish?
Apparently not. Here is a quote from the movie's Wikipedia entry:
"The film struggled to find a theatrical distributor in the USA. The major reason for this was a lack of public support by prominent cast members who did not like the final version."
Does anyone know why the prominent cast members did not like the final version?
(chuckle) Do you also highlight all the typos and editing errors while you read books? I do. I gave the last list of errors to the editor. However I didn't tell the editor that I also counted how many times each character shivered/shook and how many times the textures of fabrics were described. As I explained to a friend, it might sound a little OCD but it's as valid as people entertaining themselves with word search puzzles.
Yes, I do underline typos in books, but I don't go so far as to tell the editor.
I also like to carefully inspect newpaper and magazine ads to see if the photos are genuine or photoshopped. It's usually easy to see when pieces of different pitures are pasted together. The fake shadows and poor perspectives give them away.
Even when I was a little kid, I would count the number of TV commercials that featured 3D renderings with computer anamation, which I found really awsome during this time of computer graphics infancy.
Am i the only one who thought this movie was rubbish?
Apparently not. Here is a quote from the movie's Wikipedia entry:
"The film struggled to find a theatrical distributor in the USA. The major reason for this was a lack of public support by prominent cast members who did not like the final version."
Does anyone know why the prominent cast members did not like the final version?
(Not starting an argument with this quote) here's another entry from wiki though: This film has been lauded by many in the autistic community for its realistic portrayal of life on the autistic spectrum.[1]
Unlike many fictional books and films on the subject, Mozart and the Whale gives a more accurate rendering of autism as a "spectrum" condition, in which individuals have different levels of functioning, as well as different interests, strengths and weaknesses.
This is different from many other portrayals of autism, such as the movie Rain Man and the book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, both of which focus on one character and give the character more autistic traits than are normally seen in one individual. This leads to the notion that autistic conditions are more uniform than they are.
It is also notable that the movie portrays autistics functioning in society. Autistic characters in the movie hold jobs and live on their own, For example, the characters Greg, Donald, and Isabelle all live in their own apartments and homes.
Due to its realistic and positive portrayal of Asperger Syndrome and other Autism Spectrum conditions, this movie has been frequently screened at autistic conferences and support group meetings for those on the spectrum.
Does anyone know why Donald says his costume (the whale) is who he really is?
There's a book called "mozart and the whale" about Jerry and Mary Newport. Jerry Newport said that he felt a connection to the movie, "Free Willy" and that's why he was a whale. I was a kid when the movie came out but wasn't the boy sort of autie-ish? Guess I'll have to rent it now that my brain has started working on it.
BTW- I didn't like the movie much. But that was after I read the book, which usually kills movies for me anyway. 
I really had a connection with the book's characters, but not in the movie.
I really wanted to like the movie. I purchased it with the intention of showing it to my Significant Other. I thought one scene was funny, when Greg first talked to Isiabella. I very much identified with the scene where she surprised Donald by cleaning his apartment since I've been on both ends of that disaster. I understand the clutter. I understand the burned food. I understand that film making is expensive. But overall I found the movie depressing and confusing. I watched it over again with the director comments explaining the scenes. I guess I was supposed to feel uplifted in the end in spite of all the other scenes because they "loved" each other. But I don't fully understand or identify with romantic stuff. The overall tone looked dysfunctional and painful to me.
You folks may have persuaded me to try the book though.
I liked how Isabella talked about barking like a dog when all the kids came up and teased her...
I do the same thing. xD
I would go outside if it was too noisy or too emotional).
Interesting. I too feel the need to flee a room when other people are being too emotional. This is why I quickly learned to never go to any kind of support group meetings when they were all female. All-female meetings of that type always end up in the lot of them crying and hugging. ick ick ick ick. It makes me feel terribly awkward, uncomfortable, annoyed and angry that they subjected me to their inappropriate (to me) emotional displays.
My significant other says that is an incorrect attitude on my part. I complained I am annoyed that they waste meeting time by saying "empty" things, like the usual droning about how much they LOVE their partner, and how they HURT when he treats them like dirt. Everyone sniffles and says how they felt uplifted by these sessions. I don't get it. My Significant Other says it is not "empty", that this is a form of communication on a wave length I don't receive.
Why do you leave?