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Post by argionember on Oct 26, 2009 16:56:27 GMT -5
Anyone else notice that some things in the movie might have a deeper meaning to them/represent something? THE FOLLOWING WAS COPIED FROM stitch-99 ON THE CWACOM IMDB BOARD at: www.imdb.com/title/tt0844471/board/thread/1500893191. There's the obvious: his lab coat represents his mother's belief in his pursuits. 2. The rat-birds stand for his success that turns out disastrously. Notice that the first time we see a rat-bird clearly, it is looming behind the cheeseburger that has just fallen from the sky (foreshadowing?). Further, a rat-bird appears in the montage which depicts many of the townspeople making requests and the food-replicating machine starting to overload. The clearest instance of this is right before the spaghetti tornado strikes, a flock of rat-birds quickly flies past. Even in the ending, a few occasions are visible. They carry him down from the sky, perhaps showing that he has mastered his past. A single rat-bird begins to prey upon Chicken Brent, possibly showing that, even though he has now become a better person, the possibility of disaster ever looms over him. Finally, another flock flies up and away from Swallow Island right before THE END appears, showing that our hero has broken free of his past. 3. This was a quick thing, but did anyone else notice that the town sign read, "CHEW," after being demolished? Could this allude to the earlier line, "We may have bitten off more than we can chew," in that he is now going to metaphorically chew what he has bitten off? END OF QUOTE I, also think the Spray-on shoes might have represented his "uniqueness" and that he can't run away from himself(or his feet, remember the quote? ) and the fact that the spray-on shoes help him defeat the , sort of help to explain that his worst failure turns out to be his greatest triumph Remember his quote at the begining: "I stared at defeat, and found hope" and then they showed the same shot of Flint right before he defeats the ?(but we didn't know it was the same shot yet) Well, the first time I saw CWACOM, I thought he said: "stared at THE FEET, and found hope" Turns out it could go either way, because right before that shot, Flint did stare at "Da feet"/Defeat and found his hope! -Cody The Maverick
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Post by vivzmind on Oct 26, 2009 17:03:25 GMT -5
OMFG!!! these are all so true!! an YEA when i heard that line and then saw the final scene i spazzed so bad, because i figured it meant that he saw what he had previously thought was a failure and found that it really was the hope for humanity that they needed, its both literal and metaphorical! i love that line too, the way they used that scene in the beginning was pure genius, studying films and seeing stuff like that used.. GUUH made me soo happy, this movie really is a true animated masterpiece, not only is its animated well and funny, but its even shot well and has fantastic emotion!
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Post by LabCoatLem on Oct 26, 2009 17:12:34 GMT -5
I've never been very good at metaphors, but I'll try my best at them here.
I agree with all of things mentioned in the above posts.
So, this might just be me, but did any of you notice the severe amount of rainbowness in the movie? The Title Screen, The Spray on Shoes, The Rainbow made of Jellybeans. Rainbows symbolise hope. Uh... that's all I have. Haha, I'm good with Science but not with analysing metaphors and imagery.
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Post by argionember on Oct 26, 2009 17:24:14 GMT -5
Yup! Rainbows do mean hope, and there's A LOT of them in the movie even the TV tropes page says it (Just go to the thread in this section marked "CWACOM's TV tropes page ) The only thing I can think of right now is that Flint sees his reflection quite a few times in the movie, constantly reminding him of "who he is" The dock scene, In Brent's sissors(it was my sig for a while) not to mention the very many times he sees it in his computer montior Another thing I thought was cool, when young Flint is walking home in the rain, the shot zooms out, and by the end of the shot, he's this tiny speck on the screen Kinda shows how "small" he feels then. -Cody The Maverick
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Post by argionember on Oct 27, 2009 20:38:05 GMT -5
Sorry for double posting, but I have another idea: I always thought Flint was in "a world of his own" away from the real world, like he was trapped in a "bubble" and unable to comunicate "clearly" with the outside world. Well, this is taken to an extremely litral level with the fishbowl scene, with Flint alone inside the bowl, and the rest of the town outside staring at him Also when he cracked the bowl, it might have represented that every single little thing he does turns out in disaster -Cody The Maverick
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Post by essay383 on Oct 28, 2009 5:52:48 GMT -5
Thats so cool! I had to watch the movie 3 times to realize that the "..and found hope" bit was at the ! I also noticed at the start "Columbia Pictures Presents" you can here seagulls in the backround
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Post by evalana on Nov 7, 2009 21:51:08 GMT -5
I'm not really sure if this is symbolic or not (and if it is, I'm not quite sure what it symbolizes), but in the first scenes of the movie, when we see young Flint, he is given the labcoat that he continues to wear throughout his life. In those same scenes, we see that young Brent is wearing a blue tracksuit that is exactly the same as the one he wears as an adult (when he isn't ripping it off, of course). And midway through the movie, Sam mentions that as a girl she wore glasses and had her hair in a ponytail, and after Flint gets her to revert to that look, she sticks with it for the rest of the movie and into the foreseeable future (as seen in the end credits). So, in the world of CWaCoM, one's childhood style will never change, apparently. Or maybe that's just an effect of being in Swallow Falls...
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Post by argionember on Nov 10, 2009 16:32:28 GMT -5
I may have already explained this, but..idk Anyway, I think that the spray-on shoes and the can represent the 2 parts of himself. The shoes repersent everything that he likes about himself, while the can stand for everything he hates about himself. So, in the end, his uniqueness and what he liked(the shoes) triumphed over everything he hated and his pain of being different(the ) On the other hand, the shoes can represent his True-Self, what he's trying to find throughout his life. He keeps searching for himself throughout the movie, but its at the climax when he realizes that the shoes were on his feet all along, meaning he couldn't find himself anywhere else, his True-Self, what made Flint FLINT, was in his heart all along, he just didn't know it. and it's his True-Self that helps him save the world Also, did anyone else notice that Flint drew "laces" on his spray-on shoes? (you can see this quite clearly when Sam meets Flint) maybe he wanted to make them look more "normal" XD And, did anyone notice that there are A LOT of close up shots of Flint's eyes/face? Don't exactly know why they could have done that, maybe to make him feel more isolated... -Cody The Maverick
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Post by argionember on Dec 20, 2009 20:49:40 GMT -5
Sorry for double posting, but i just discovered something awesome: Take a good look at the buttons on Flint's lab coat(there's a good shot of him if you go to offical U.S. site and click "story") you'l notice that four of the buttons are white-yellow, BUT one of them(the 2nd one down from the top) is GREEN! Maybe he lost a button when he was growing up and didn't have another white one to fill up the spot. But this further explains that Flint is more of an outcast because of the one different button -Cody The Maverick
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Post by KJ on Dec 21, 2009 21:50:08 GMT -5
I notice the green button on the coat when I saw the film.
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Post by evalana on Dec 21, 2009 23:55:36 GMT -5
I mentioned this in the chat, but I'll post it here, too: to me, the green button's significance is that the original button fell off after Flint's mom died, and he had to sew it back on himself.
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Post by samsparkslol on Apr 10, 2010 9:25:23 GMT -5
CREEPY
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Post by flintlockwoodslove on May 4, 2010 19:58:55 GMT -5
I think Cody mentioned this in another thread but the fishbowl for me is very symbolic. For me, i believed FLint was in his own fishbowl, somewhere safe, warm, comforting but when he 'broke' the fishbowl, his life was now exposed and not in his comfort zone.
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Post by Elayn on Jun 29, 2010 16:59:38 GMT -5
I'm quite sure that in the beginning of the movie (I think it's when Flint is sitting under the bridge after he ruined Sardine Land) the letters on the Baby Brent sardine canning factory says only Swallow, but I don't know if it means anything. =P
And I might've also remembered wrong, I need to look at it next time I watch the movie. xD
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Post by GeekyGirl on Oct 15, 2010 16:35:30 GMT -5
I just watched the movie (again) a few minuets ago and I was about to point that out! Only when I saw it, it said "Swallow alls." Idk if it means anything though! They might have just forgotten to put the "F" but it does make you wonder doesn't it...
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