Is anyone excited for the 10th anniversary of Charly?

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Re: Is anyone excited for the 10th anniversary of Charly?

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Oh my. Oh my. Oh my. Lol.
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Re: Is anyone excited for the 10th anniversary of Charly?

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Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:Wait.

Saturday's Warrior has been supplanted?

Dammit.

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Re: Is anyone excited for the 10th anniversary of Charly?

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Someone has the entire movie of Charly up on YouTube!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmrwWFXJw84

She dies at the end (spoiler alert).
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Re: Is anyone excited for the 10th anniversary of Charly?

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Darth J wrote:I was subjected to the stage play of Charly when I was a little boy. The play is a musical; I have no intention of finding out whether the movie is, too. Anyway, it's a really depressing story about this nice TBM boy and girl who date and fall in love and get married in the temple, and then she gets a terminal disease and dies. And in the play I saw, it showed them getting sealed in the temple, except it was only the two actors on stage kneeling at an altar, and wearing white, but not temple clothes. And they sang some song about how wonderful love is or some b.s. like that. Also, when they were dating, there was a miniature Ferris wheel on the stage that the two main characters rode on with their backs to the audience. Then to symbolize when Charly died, the two actors were back on the Ferris wheel in another scene, then she got off but he kept riding.

Extremely depressing symbolism that was evidently intended to give us hope about the principle of eternal marriage. Geez, even when I was a kid who believed in eternal marriage it depressed the hell out of me.



You forgot the bit where Charly discloses she isn't a virgin (living with a boyfriend), and the guy dumps her, proclaiming he doesn't want "used merchandise".
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Re: Is anyone excited for the 10th anniversary of Charly?

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Darth J wrote:Someone has the entire movie of Charly up on YouTube!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmrwWFXJw84

She dies at the end (spoiler alert).


Dammit. You're supposed to put the spoiler warning before the spoiler, preferably with some space so we don't accidentally read the spoiler. You just ruined the movie for millions of people, or a couple people at least.
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