"MInd the Oranges, Marlon" - Be honest now, did you get the fact that it was a fabulous joke reference to the oranges in every death scene in the Godfather films?
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Now that I know the truth, I feel somewhat let down.
Now it's just some dodgy film-ref gag, where as before it was a beautifully insane random slice of brilliance.
Shame on y'all for bringing this trivia to light.
I thought everyone got it to be honest... Seems a bit strange otherwise!!
Strange? No, it was marvellous !!!
Seems a bit strange otherwise
That's what we thought was the point.
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i read it two weeks ago for the first time but now it doesn't seem so good
I kind of liked it better when I thought it was completely obscure. Still, you can't knock a writer who can tell a joke that takes about twenty years to get: I wouldn't mind, only I knew about the oranges thing in the Godfather ages ago.
Didn't get it as I haven't seen any of the Godfather movies. I know, it's disgraceful and I lose sleep over it but the opportunity to watch them has not yet arisen, hopefully it'll be rectified soon. Just thought it was really bizarre and surreal so thought it was hilarious anyway. The line "Mind the oranges Marlon" will be in my head forever.
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and the oranges in every death scene in the godfather weren't scripted, it was down to the set dresser and the cinematographer, who wanted to add a bit of colour to the scenes. allegedly it's pure co-incidence.
What ?! Say it ain't so !
The surreal beauty of the whole scene has been destroyed for me now. What was the height of off-the-wall barmy lunacy has been reduced to a cheap movie reference gag. DR & Q reduced to the status of B&K.
I'm aghast.
Wait, this makes no sense!
There aren't oranges in all the death scenes in the Godfather films. We did them at uni, and nothing ever came up about cursed oranges!
Where's the oranges when the guy kills the other Lee Strasburg at the airport in Godfather II? Or when DeNiro kills that guy outside his apartment? Or when the guy from 'The Pope Must Die' gets shot in the eye through his glasses? Or when Michael has his brother-in-law offed by Al Neri?
No, this can't be right.
Wheres the oranges when Sonny gets it?..
No every death... but they do reoccur in different parts of the trilogy
Thanks for the advice Oddboy, not well versed in this interweb thingamy.
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"No every death... but they do reoccur in different parts of the trilogy"
It's bollocks, isn't it?
yes...they were set dressing...it's on the dvd for funk's sake
Never even seen The Godfather but if it is full of oranges that also explains the pretentious use of oranges in the film-within-a-film that was The Comic Strip Presents' 'Strike'.
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It's not ORANGES per se that is in every death scene, but something orange in colour. Only the most imnportant ones get oranges. For some it's just the flicker of a match or summink.
I think orange is associated with death or summink in Italy.
The main 'oranges' are from the scene where ~Brando is shot. Oranges pop up there and it has sod all to do with the set dresser - it was in Puzo's original novel.
That's also the one the reference....er....refers to, obviously.
And the colour orange was definitely used intentionally by the second movie, probably the first...
yeah, but oranges, and more usually lemons, pop up in all puzo's novels...the bloke was fixated with 'em.
the whole thing got a bit apocryphal and too much was read into it by film buffs. it ain't m. night shaylamnamnam or whatever, where they use red all the time in the sixth sense to denote dead people. coppola denies a deliberate link and said the whole thing was bollocks.
anyway back to the point, the reference in dr and quinch can obviously work on more than one level. when i first read it it was just a funny line, but now i can look at it and see the reference and say, well that works on two levels then...it certainly didn't spoil it for me then, and it won't now.
alan moore, work of genius, most amusing, happy to leave it at that.
i voted no, but i get a warm fuzzy feeling every time i recognise a famous quote from a poem or something.
though i think the last time i did was bec and kawl: my mommy always said there were no monsters, no real ones, but there are....
...damn that newt. damn james cameron.
The Hive Mind Did Not Get This Joke. And Is Slightly Embarrassed By This Fact.
I'm not in the least embarassed. I was 13 when D.R. & Quinch Go to Hollywood appeared, and I haven't had the time since then to sit through any or all of the Godfather movies. They're on my 'to do' list.
I wanted to vote, but found the additional wording on the questions made it impossible for me to answer in good conscience.
Ah that made me laugh out loud, PVS.
If anyone is worried by the extra wording then don't be. It was just a feeble attempt to make the YES/NO answers seem less dry. Please ignore the extra text.
Glad to see I'm in the majority for once though...
Okay then, I voted.
i liked additional wording.