Déjà Vu (film): Difference between revisions
Content added Content deleted
m (trope=>work) |
m (Mass update links) |
||
| Line 35: | Line 35: | ||
* [[Meaningful Funeral]]: Claire's at the start. |
* [[Meaningful Funeral]]: Claire's at the start. |
||
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Doug's note to his partner {{spoiler|leads the partner to his death}}. |
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Doug's note to his partner {{spoiler|leads the partner to his death}}. |
||
* [[Noodle Incident]]: Half the North-East of Michigan had a blackout due to a mistake the technicians made but they [[South Park |
* [[Noodle Incident]]: Half the North-East of Michigan had a blackout due to a mistake the technicians made but they [[South Park|blamed Canada]]. |
||
** Not actually a [[Noodle Incident]]: This is in reference to the [[wikipedia:Northeast Blackout of 2003|2003 Northeast Blackout]] which stretched from Boston to New York to Cleveland to Detroit to Toronto. Note that 50 million homes were affected, and these ARE Harvard guys and girls that are on Snow White, after all. "Blame Canada" jokes ran amok then as well when that happened when it was surmised that the cascading power failure originated in an Ontario power plant. |
** Not actually a [[Noodle Incident]]: This is in reference to the [[wikipedia:Northeast Blackout of 2003|2003 Northeast Blackout]] which stretched from Boston to New York to Cleveland to Detroit to Toronto. Note that 50 million homes were affected, and these ARE Harvard guys and girls that are on Snow White, after all. "Blame Canada" jokes ran amok then as well when that happened when it was surmised that the cascading power failure originated in an Ontario power plant. |
||
** The original "mistake" is how they are able to look back in time (the discovery was completely by accident) {{spoiler|and eventually send stuff back in time at the cost of a huge amount of power.}} |
** The original "mistake" is how they are able to look back in time (the discovery was completely by accident) {{spoiler|and eventually send stuff back in time at the cost of a huge amount of power.}} |
||
| Line 42: | Line 42: | ||
** Well, this makes sense if you accept that the time loop caused by Carlin's time travel is not actually stable. This means that Carlin may have tried to save Claire once before, leaving behind the evidence he later finds, but actually failed to stop the explosion. Remember the suspiciously familiar cell phone going off at the beginning of the movie? Takes on a greater significance now doesn't it? |
** Well, this makes sense if you accept that the time loop caused by Carlin's time travel is not actually stable. This means that Carlin may have tried to save Claire once before, leaving behind the evidence he later finds, but actually failed to stop the explosion. Remember the suspiciously familiar cell phone going off at the beginning of the movie? Takes on a greater significance now doesn't it? |
||
*** This Troper read the above, paused, thought, and suddenly the ENTIRE movie made SO much more sense! |
*** This Troper read the above, paused, thought, and suddenly the ENTIRE movie made SO much more sense! |
||
** The article on the [[Wikipedia |
** The article on the [[Wikipedia|Other Wiki]] includes [[wikipedia:File:Deja Vu Timeline.png|a diagram]] showing that four runs of the timeline are needed in order to explain the events in the movie. |
||
* [[Screw Destiny]]: After the [[Because Destiny Says So]] speech by the criminal this becomes Doug's standpoint on the whole crime. |
* [[Screw Destiny]]: After the [[Because Destiny Says So]] speech by the criminal this becomes Doug's standpoint on the whole crime. |
||
* [[Single Tear]]: At the end {{spoiler|Claire does this when she and Doug are in the car with the bomb and she's certain she's going to die}}. |
* [[Single Tear]]: At the end {{spoiler|Claire does this when she and Doug are in the car with the bomb and she's certain she's going to die}}. |
||