tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190627334056603500.post8305440394929219884..comments2023-10-19T05:36:56.844-07:00Comments on "Let's Not Talk About Movies": Don't Make a Scene: The Manchurian CandidateUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190627334056603500.post-90542586647268965952012-10-30T02:14:11.193-07:002012-10-30T02:14:11.193-07:00One of my favorite movies of all time. Stumbled ac...One of my favorite movies of all time. Stumbled across this thread trying to figure out Rosie. Here's the case:<br />- The train scene as above. Very bizarre, claiming to be a chinese worker, then asking him to verify that he recalls her address and phone #. Methinks she's no good. <br />- The police station scene, she interacts with a man outside the window. This man enters after a delay, leaves a suitcase, then speaks on the phone in the background in spanish. Rosie then leaves with this suitcase.<br />- Rosie falls for ol blue eyes faster than most, immediately leaving her fiance. <br />- There's not clear evidence after this that she's Sinatra's handler, especially since he discusses the plan with her with no apparent consequences in disrupting the plan<br /><br />I think Rosie is set up as a handler for Maj Marco, but this is left by the wayside in the movie. As I see it, the best ending to the movie would be, after Marco finishes listing off the medal of honor winners, Rosie(who is in the room at the time) replies with a delightfully sinister "Why don't you pass the time by playing a little solitaire?". I've come up with 2 reasons why it does not end in this way and the Rosie character was derailed: 1. the 1960 crowd couldn't handle the ending where the bad guys win or 2. Maj Marco delivers this line earlier in the film and it would not make sense that he's conditioned with the same. <br /><br />Regardless, the movie is still one of my favorites. I think my next step would be to read the novel upon which the movie is based. If anyone has any other input in the mean time, please update. RonnyKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915775629750855974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190627334056603500.post-87989733109558129872008-08-17T12:22:00.000-07:002008-08-17T12:22:00.000-07:00I saw it the first time (during that "suppression"...I saw it the first time (during that "suppression" period you mention) when it was broadcast on one of the network's "Sunday Night at the Movies." (Remember those? They used to be a big deal.)<BR/><BR/>"Suppressed," yet broadcast. One more MC oddity.<BR/><BR/>The most amusing thing I found in this is I misspelled "cigarette" as "cigarteet." Seems more descriptive, doesn't it?"Yojimbo_5"https://www.blogger.com/profile/12791996320278381516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190627334056603500.post-50147642938865872352008-08-17T10:15:00.000-07:002008-08-17T10:15:00.000-07:00I saw this in NY during that 25-year 'suppression"...I saw this in NY during that 25-year 'suppression" period somehow. Looks like I should see it again.Walaka of Earth 2https://www.blogger.com/profile/15937932225623126280noreply@blogger.com