Submitted by -Paraprax- t3_11dmwza in movies

The bonus material for Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch Drunk Love(2002) included a hilarious local commercial starring Philip Seymour Hoffman's mattress-salesman antagonist - itself a beat-for-beat recreation of a real low-budget ad/blooper from some time earlier. The original guy and Hoffman both deliver the line "I fucked up my guitar, though."

20 years later in Licorice Pizza, there's the scene where Alana >!falls off the motorbike, landing on and crushing the guitar on her back before being rescued by Gary(Cooper Hoffman). In the heat of this romantic moment, the first thing she says to him is "I fucked up Danielle's guitar.."!<

It's a fleeting detail, but I think Paul Thomas Anderson writing and directing that line for a heroic scene w/ Philip Seymour Hoffman's son(himself playing a mattress salesman!) is awesome and definitely added another layer to a great movie moment.

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FloridaFlamingoGirl t1_ja9lhzc wrote

Amazing catch. How special to reframe a silly gag into something more poignant.

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bugxbuster t1_ja9wng3 wrote

Yeah, I’m genuinely impressed with that catch. That’s really great. Things like that make me miss stuff like Pop Up Video back in the day where references or little details would be highlighted as they happen. Scott Pilgrim on Blu Ray had a feature like that with filmmaking facts throughout.

There’s just so many things in pretty much any movie that the audience has no idea the subtle significance of.

Also, Licorice Pizza fucking ruled.

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ignoresubs t1_jac6pue wrote

I really wish we got a director’s commentary track, disappointing he skipped out on this one.

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Dawn_of_Dayne t1_ja9ylgu wrote

This made me realize than his son also sold [water] mattresses in LP.

“That’s that.”

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Shintoho t1_jac23qt wrote

My personal headcanon is that Cooper Hoffman's character in LP grows up to become Phillip Seymour Hoffman's character in PDL

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