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What's in the box?
Posted by smithylad on 9 March 2009 - 11:06pm.
Films with boxes containing mystery objects which we never get to see:
Barton Fink
Se7en
Cast Away
Anyone know of any others?
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Pulp Fiction?
First one that popped into my head
Not a box, but...
Not a box, but I seem to remember a similar trick with a car boot in Alex Cox's "Repo Man"...
Two that come to mind...
- The suitcase in Ronin
- The rabbits foot canister in Mission Impossible 3
Isn't this a trick originally done by Hitchcock ? I think there's a name for it, but can't be bothered to look up on Google......
the word you're looking for is
i think, McGubbins. Mind you, a google of such a word turns up a big fat healthy thick end of bog all, so it could be just the remnant of a dream. On t'other hand, if it is something i just made up, I likes the sound of it.
As for the original post, without wanting to give anything away, but hell, it's nearly 13 years since it came out...you DO get to see what's in the box in se7ven. It's what turns the movie on its, er, head...
*edit* It's McGuffin; which sounds far too much like something you'd eat for breakfast in a cheap fast food restaurant. McGubbins is better...
In Seven you get to see this
SPOILERS!!!
ok not really
See what you got!
Robert Aldrich's Kiss Me Deadly has a box which includes some glowing thing that is never seen, but is not nice to look at. I think that's where Quentin Tarantino got his "hommage" from.
There's another mystery box in Luis Bunuel's pervy Belle de Jour. Catherine Deneuve gets a look-see courtesy of one of her customers.
chrisf, you're thinking of a MacGuffin.
Don't open the Great Whatsit!
(NB SPOILER ALERT!)
it's one the maddest
to any film I know quite a humdrum drama and then that.. top noir!
Sorry, but…
… can't agree with 'humdrum'. The whole film is, in my opinion, a stunning piece of work.
wasn't slagging it off
it's just it's rolling along as a normal dectective based noir thriller and then the end comes along and wham.
Pulp Fiction
Yes, the thing in the case is a hommage to "Kiss Me Deadly", but is also meant to be... (drum roll) Marsellus Wallace's soul! Clues are the 666 combination on the case lock, Samuel L. Jackson's biblical quoting, the kid surviving the shooting (the devil protecting his own) and the plaster on the back of Ving Rhames' neck when we first see him (the devil apparently removes your soul from that point in some myths), and the disappearance of the plaster when we see him later (after he has the case back.) Probably complete bollocks of course, but a nice theory...
*SPOILER* Kiss Me Deadly
Isn't it nuclear/radioactive material?
you can't say spoiler and
then give the plot away in the next line!
again not a box
or even a film but you never find out what's in Alan's drawer in the 1st series of I'm Alan Partridge.
Perhaps it was
Ice white shoes, ice white socks with double navy cadet stripe, shorts, and a t-shirt with chevron action flash.
You never know when you're going to need to be "L'homme du Sport"
Se7en
Is one of the most horrible films I have ever seen. I was really quite traumatised after it. What on earth was going through the mind of the director I cannot imagine (and don't want to!). Shudder.