That's mostly how I saw it -- but IMO he went after Teddy to continue to give meaning to his life, not necessarily just to stop Teddy from using him (after all, couldn't Leonard have just killed Teddy after killing the drug dealer if that's all he wanted to do?). At the end of the movie Leonard says something like "I need to believe that my actions still have meaning. I need to believe in a world outside my own. Do I lie to myself to make me happy? In your case, Teddy. . . yeah." He needed a puzzle to solve to give his life purpose.
Just for the record, I rented Memento on DVD a couple of weeks ago and after the movie I was also wondering whether the insulin story was Sammy's or not. Some of the extras on the DVD, however, include news clippings, psychiatric reports, police reports, etc. One of the police reports of the incident states that there was a dead female (ie his wife) so according to this his wife did actually die in the robbery/rape.
You're all off base. It's a birthday cake. Think about it -- when Vincent opens the case, he's spellbound, and when Jules asks "Are we happy," all Vincent can do is smile and chuckle like a kid. (Perhaps it was part of a surprise party for Marsellus.) Then, when Pumpkin looks at it, he says, "It's beautiful," and all I could do was picture him staring at an intricate, painstakingly detailed inscription on the frosting. And there could have been lit candles on the top, which explains the glow!
Rocket Fan in NM: Good point. I agree with that, that he still wanted to have meaning, but also felt it was important that he get away from Teddy and make him pay. I just kind of figured that he wrote that because he didn't make the decision to kill him until that moment, and that was the best way to do it. Didn't want to get out of the truck to go fight with/try and shoot Teddy, only to forget what he was going to do before he got there. Interesting. I'll have to check the DVD out. Did the reports say a dead female in connection with the robbery/rape only, or did it mention anything about the insulin incident? I just read it that it was him. One of the reasons for that is, during one of the times he's telling the Sammy story, we see 'Sammy' in a mental hospital, sitting there. For a brief moment Leonard's face takes the place of 'Sammy'. And if I remember this correctly, this is before Teddy ever tells Leonard that he is Sammy; so it was maybe a clue before we hear this explanation from Teddy.
A birthday cake? I hope you're joking but like Isaid before the contents of the briefcase ave never been told. Briefcase
Another question I have, I just got through watching Finding Forrester and maybe I didn't pay close enough attention but why does he stays locked up and not share his additional writings?
OK, here is a question that nobody may be able to answer. After watching "Demolition Man" I was wondering...does anybody remember that part where John Spartan (Stallone) comes back from the bathroom and asks where the toilet paper is because all he saw was three seashells and then somebody says he doesn't know how to use the three seashells? Well I was wondering how do you use the three seashells? I don't get it???
I thought it was because he was afraid he didn't have anything else left in him. Or that he felt he wasn't that great of a writer. Or he was afraid of his fame perhaps. I might be totally off base. It's been a long time since I've seen the movie. I'll ask my mom, she might remember.
I thought he didn't like how much weight people ascribed to the book. They talked about how it changed their lives, etc (including a nurse telling him that on the night his brother died) and finding meaning possibly beyond what he felt his words meant. But that's just what I got out of it on my admittedly limited viewings.
I doubt that. That would be brutally wrong if that was in the package. Can you imagine the amount of psychological pain that would of put on Tom Hanks character? Knowing that opening that package could of gotten you those 3 years back. That is seriously sick. I doubt the writer would make a f*cked up ending like that.
Yeah that would be a messed up thing but I suppose the package in "CastAway" is comparable to the briefcase in "Pulp Fiction" there are many stories and theories on what were in each of them but no one truly knows except maybe the creators.
Another question about movies. Does anybody know why all telephone numbers in movies begin with the prefix of 555?
Out of order... 4) While Tarentino has never disclosed what was actuallysupposed to be in the briefcase, he has acknowledged 2 things...1) It was a send-off on a 1960's or 70's B film, where the lead character carries around this suitcase that glows, and only near the end is it revealed that it contains alien technology...Can't remember the name...and 2) It was also an homage to Hitchcock, and his use of the McGuffin, which Hitch called anything whose purpose is to seem vitally important, but is really only used to disrtact from what's really going on, heightening the suspense and surprise when the real significance is revealed, and the McGuffin is always left unsolved/revealed... 1) Spielberg has said it wasn't so much thematically signifiacant as for visual effect, to remove the barrier of safety viewers might get from everything being in newsreel B&W, and besides, it's the kind of thing that directors love to do just cause it's "neat" looking... 2) By the ending, do you mean the other woman and the crossroads? If so, it would just signify alternatives and the fact that life goes on, even if it takes a different path from what you intended... 4) From what I understand, that is a myth, like Marilyn's 6 toes... 5) The glass reflection in the snakepit scene in Raider's of the Lost Ark was pretty bad...In Chariots of Fire's final race, Eric Liddel's character does a have and have not with a note he got from Jackson Shultz...You can see a boom mike hanging down in several big-time movies...I didn't notice, but my friend told me that you can see a car driving in the distance in LOTR...This would only matter if you knew someone, and is done all the time, but in the Nam movie Prisoner of War, my uncle was in Thailand while they filmed it, and he was hired to be an extra as a soldier, and in this one long march sequence, when a bunch of soldiers go by, he does a Flinstones and you see him march by the camera shot 3 times, and I'm guessing that there were several others they looped...There are others, but I'd go on for days about films if you let me...
