mrmichaelt wrote: ↑January 19th, 2023, 4:21 pmPrime 1986 wrote: ↑January 19th, 2023, 8:48 am Hell's Kitchen is also apparently a part of manthattan where the bridge connects NY and NJ.
Kinda supports the Manhellton script theory.
True, "Rust City" was Summerville or more precise Podcast referred to the foundry as it and that's where they encountered Muncher. "Hell's Kitchen" could have the same connotation.
RichardLess wrote: ↑January 19th, 2023, 2:26 pm But yeah like you mentioned before the timeline of the movies are very vague. We know something is suppose to happens on New Years but at no point are we told how far away it is when the movie starts. We see Christmas decorations. That might’ve been a good thing to change. Give the audience a ticking clock. We are X amount of days from New Year’s Eve. Like…Peter and Dana go out on a date right? Was that on New Years Eve? Oscar is kidnapped that same night, right? Then Dana goes looking for him. Does all that take place on the same night? Like…New Years just kinda happens. Interesting to think about.
One clue is when the guys go to Dana's apartment to examine Oscar, there's a quick shot of the maid and Oscar in the kitchen I think. The calendar is still on November. Then when the cop first checks on the guys on First Avenue, Ray notes it's a Friday night. So you could look at the '89 calendar and extrapolate from there. Then by the time Ray and Egon demo the mood slime to Peter and Ray, we're into the New Year's Eve holidays. Imo, more or less, the movie covers 1 month.
Sharp eye! That’s a good catch. A month seems about right with all that goes on. I could see the montage covering a couple weeks. They shot, editing and aired a new commercial plus all the various calls and slime escalation.
There’s a bit of interesting subtext that I don’t think I’ve ever considered before. The slime, the negative slime that feeds on bad human emotions, starts becoming a big problem during the holiday season. Christmas season and the new year. What is suppose to be a time of good cheer and Merry making is infact a stressful, angry and sad time for ALOT of people. I don’t know if they considered that while writing the movie but it’s interesting isn’t it? You’d think the holiday season would be the last time of year Vigo would want to come alive. Then again…it’s also his undoing in a way isn’t it? Or maybe it’s not something Vigo chose maybe there’s something significant with the changing of the Year. One of the big scenes from an earlier draft of the script that could’ve been really funny is the GB’s go on TV, like the mayor suggests, and tells New Yorkers they’ve gotta be nice to each other and so we get a montage of all the various scenarios New Yorkers hate(traffic, crowded subway cars, sporting events) and they are forcefully nice(thru gritted teeth).
In the finished film there is a stone slab with all sorts of runes on it that Janosz puts Oscars alter on. I’ve always wondered about that. Did he make it? Find it? Was it hidden somewhere? In the script Janosz was suppose to have written rune incantations on Oscar.