From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #6345 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Sunday, April 4 2021 Volume 14 : Number 6345 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Get-Rid.of-mosquitos.once-and.for-all!.f.. ["Buzz Moskinator" Subject: Get-Rid.of-mosquitos.once-and.for-all!.f.. Get-Rid.of-mosquitos.once-and.for-all!.f.. http://containerhome.buzz/diqxWH98wCKM_16i9-nRg8OtH90Esq692H4eYxBDHGaJDuw1 http://containerhome.buzz/mb9ghy_NR-N1ZQIZbzBkPt-zNuhhtnNvbxfJEj81UxD8s5_4 inal idea for Groundhog Day came to writer Danny Rubin in 1990. He had moved to Los Angeles to work as a screenwriter. While waiting in a theater for a film to start, he was reading the book The Vampire Lestat (1985) by Anne Rice. Rubin began musing about vampiric immortality and what one would do with their time if it was limitless. He reasoned that vampires were like normal people without being forced to adhere to the same rules or moral boundaries. He questioned if and when it would become boring or pointless, and how a person would change over time, especially if that person was incapable of substantial change within their own limited mortal life. He singled out men he deemed to be in arrested development, who could not outlive their adolescence. Having recently sold his first script for what would become the thriller film Hear No Evil (1993), his agent prompted him to develop a "calling-card" script that he could use to gain meetings with producers. Rubin began work on his idea of a man changing over eternal life but quickly realized that the idea was impractical because of the expense of depicting historical and future events. At this point, Rubin recalled a brief story concept he had written two years earlier that followed a man who would wake every morning to find it was the same day repeating. Rubin married the two ideas to create the outline for Groundhog Day. By portraying eternity as a repeating cycle instead of a straight line through history he eliminated the production cost of constantly changing settings. He believed that the repetition also offered him more dramatic and comedic possibilities. Rubin opened a calendar and picked the next nearest holiday, February 2, the eponymous Groundhog Day. He saw it as a date with story potential because it was a recognized holiday without much widespread attention. Rubin believed that people held a vague awareness of the holiday using a groundhog to predict changing seasons. Even so, he believe ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2021 05:08:11 -0400 From: "Silky Smooth Chocolate" Subject: This creamy, delicious dessert nukes fat cells This creamy, delicious dessert nukes fat cells http://savageegrow.us/5Fep0e1vkWizShFhOvuAU79_Idfq9c6gzX1Kh9zBCXDuoA4B http://savageegrow.us/r9QwoSRBCERxgFhBGML9IrjGo0FBHOS2K5wHhMGCtHECjwAL even weeks making notes to define both the rules and characters, and one week writing the script. Rubin struggled with establishing a cause for the time loop, and considered technological, magical, and celestial origins. He thought these methods were interchangeable, and that the cause was unimportant and could detract from the story elements he wanted to focus on. Rubin said that this lack of explanation made Phil's situation more relatable, as "none of us knows exactly how we got stuck here either." He chose to begin the story in medias res, with Phil already caught in the time loop. The first scene included Phil waking up to "I Got You Babe", predicting the radio host banter and the actions of the hotel patrons, and attacking a pedestrian outside. Rubin thought that this would intrigue an audience trying to understand how and why he is doing these things. He chose "I Got You Babe" because it used a lot of repeating lines and was about love, which he felt were thematically resonant aspects. He likened his original script to the 1949 British black comedy film Kind Hearts and Coronets, particularly with the flippant way in which Phil's multiple suicides are shown. Rubin did not initially write it as a broad comedy and considered it to be more whimsical. He found that the funnier elements were the easiest to think of; one of the earliest scenes he wrote was about Phil using his ever-increasing knowledge to seduce women. Loops were also dedicated to Phil seeing how far he could get outside of Punxsutawney; inevitably he was always returned to the town by the loop. Even so, the script focused much more on Phil's loneliness. He breaks the loop only after realizing that there are other lonely people, and that he can do good deeds to make them happier. Scenes present in the finished film happened much earlier in Rubin's script, such as Phil driving over a cliff happening in the first loop. The passage of time was also more distinct; Phil would track it by reading one page of a book per day, reaching his low point when he realizes he has run out of books. The original ending also featured a twist: Phil breaks his loop and then confesses his love to Rita. The perspective then becomes that of Rita, who rejects Phil's advance because she is not ready for love, and Rita is revealed to have become trap ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #6345 **********************************************