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Post by RandallBoggs on Nov 27, 2006 22:59:45 GMT -5
Well probably get himself hurt of course, but why stop the ball at all ^_^
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2006 23:00:26 GMT -5
Well....not quite, I'll tell you in a PM if you want, but I won't deprive PBL the honor of answering it, I'm sure she'd want to FAR more than I. ^_^
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Post by RandallBoggs on Nov 27, 2006 23:05:35 GMT -5
Ha ^_^
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Post by pitbulllady on Nov 28, 2006 0:06:36 GMT -5
Well probably get himself hurt of course, but why stop the ball at all ^_^ To understand that scene, you have to understand Wilt. Wilt may be a nice guy, and he may be very helpful, but if Wilt were an animal, he'd totally be a game-bred American Pit Bull Terrier! Wilt is determined to see something through, and NEVER back down, even if it kills him-LITERALLY. It was not a matter of simply stopping the ball; it was a matter of doing what he came there to do-beat Foul Larry. If you look up the defination of "Gameness", it should have Wilt's picture there. This guy who was his rival, "Foul Larry", you see, was another Imaginary Friend who'd been created for the soul purpose of stopping Wilt, by any means necessary. He was big-and I am talking big-enough-to-stomp-a-mudhole-in-James-P.-Sullivan-BIG! Wilt is nearly ten feet tall, and Larry towered over HIM, so Larry probably weighed in a close to a ton, considering that Sulley weighed over a thousand pounds. And Larry was mean; he cheated, he was violent, he literally slapped Wilt around like a ragdoll. But like a Pit Bull, Wilt just kept getting up to "scratch", again and again, and he kept playing by the honest rules of the game, without resorting to cheating or violence himself to win(and Wilt IS tremendously strong, and probably COULD have knocked Larry on his [other word for donkey] if he'd wanted to, but that's not what he was there for. He was there to play basketball, and to win, honestly and by his own merit. When the little score-keeping Imaginary Friend, "Stats", told Wilt that Larry was going in for a slam-dunk, Wilt knew what that meant. You see, the net on that end was very close to a brick wall, and Larry had this move where after he'd slammed the ball through the net, he'd let his momentum carry him foreward so that he crashed into the wall, and if anyone happened to BE between his 2,000-lb. bulk and that wall, in the position to defend the goal, well, let's just say things would not be going too well for them. After he crashed into the wall, Larry would then perform this Pro wrestling-style backwards body slam down to the court, to take care of anyone waiting there, too. In the flashback scene triggered by Stats' warning, we see how in that infamous match 30 years ago, Wilt avoided Larry's initial crash into the wall, and the ball was still teetering on the rim-when Larry performs that backwards body slam-and right in his immense path was Wilt's creator(and to some extent, surrogate son)-little Jordan Michaels. Like any devoted parent or even best friend, Wilt left the ball where it was, performing a Randall-style reversal against the wall(yes, Wilt does have "suction-cuppy" digits and he CAN grip surfaces like walls, just like Randall), diving down underneath Larry's decending bulk to shove Jordan out the way-and Larry comes crashing down on Wilt's left arm. You can hear the sound of bones breaking and crunching just as the basketball falls through the hoop(scoring for Larry and putting him one point ahead of Wilt to win the game), striking Wilt's left eye, blinding him. End flashback, cut to present-Larry is going for that slam-dunk again, to try and clench the win, only this time. Wilt KNOWS that if he gets between Larry and the wall to defend the goal, Larry is going to crush him against the wall, finishing him off, but his determination to win that game, and win back his honor, is greater than his fear of death, so he goes for it, knowing that he is going to be killed, win or loose. At the last split-second, before Larry can connect with his opponent and crush him, you see this human hand reach out and grab Wilt by the stump of his amputated(and fortunately long-healed)left arm, the arm that Larry crushed 30 years ago, and snatch Wilt to safety, as the ball falls through the hoop, winning the game for Larry, yet again. I guess there are a lot of people who cannot figure out why Wilt, who clearly is no dummy, would be willing to die just to regain his honor, but I'd bet that Randall would not be one of those people. I bet HE would understand that level of determination and spirit, and that level of competitiveness. pitbulllady
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Post by RandallBoggs on Nov 28, 2006 20:05:19 GMT -5
Ah no hands bared.
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Post by pitbulllady on Dec 1, 2006 8:41:35 GMT -5
"No hands bared"? Don't you mean "no holds barred"? Yeah, the basketball match-up definately was that, and then some. First time I've ever seen a basketball game that was literally intended to be played "to the death". One of the things I realized, watching the movie on tape again(and again), is that before leaving, Wilt had gone through all his belongings, what little he does have, at the house and discarded them or sold them(he did need money for bus and train tickets and food, after all, and later for gasoline for the old Snapper riding mower a farmer gave him-and the sight of this tall, lanky being puttering eastward along old Route 66 on a lawnmower is to be forever a television icon). When the others at the house are looking for him, Mac points out that Wilt's locker was empty, and Bloo realizes his toothbrush is missing, but when Wilt arrives at his destination, he is only carrying a basketball in his little hobo bundle, so apparently he disposed of all his personal belongings-his extra shoes and sockes, plus anything else he owned. I take that to mean that he KNEW he would not be returning home to Foster's, that he knew he was going to die on that basketball court, and felt that doing so was the only way he could ever rid himself of his guilt. Either Larry would have to kill him to stop him from scoring and winning, or he would kill him afterwards if Wilt did win. That's some pretty heavy stuff for a cartoon, when you think about it. pitbulllady
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Post by RandallBoggs on Dec 1, 2006 19:14:40 GMT -5
Oh heh.
Hehehe...had to admit Bloo was funny in accusing Wilt of things ^_^
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Post by pitbulllady on Dec 1, 2006 20:37:00 GMT -5
Oh heh. Hehehe...had to admit Bloo was funny in accusing Wilt of things ^_^ Yeah, he was, especially when he kept coming up with all these criminal-types for having been Wilt's creator- "Al CAPONE!" "Attila the Hun!" "GODZILLA! WILT WAS CREATED BY GODZILLA!" You gotta love that "WTF?" expression on Wilt's face, too, when Bloo says to him in that conspiratorial tone, "Don't worry, we didn't tell him about your life of crime!" pitbulllady
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Post by Veg on Dec 2, 2006 0:02:50 GMT -5
Well Bloo is that sort of person to jump into conclusions without thinking reasonably, so when Wilt said he had done something terrible, Bloo might have jumped into conclusion that Wilt was created by a criminal.
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Post by RandallBoggs on Dec 3, 2006 20:23:15 GMT -5
Hehehe "can he lend me some cash" ^_^
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Post by pitbulllady on Dec 3, 2006 21:20:15 GMT -5
Hehehe "can he lend me some cash" ^_^ "Is he a girl?" "Does she have a lake house, and can I stay there?" LOL, Bloo is JUST like Mike Wazowski, always looking to ride someone coattails, and always quick to jump to conclusions. I can SO hear Mike asking questions just like that if he figured he could get something out of it. pitbulllady
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Post by RandallBoggs on Dec 3, 2006 21:35:52 GMT -5
Yeah only difference is Bloo is funny ^_^
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Post by Veg on Dec 4, 2006 22:52:46 GMT -5
Remember that "Uncle Pockets" episode?
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Post by pitbulllady on Dec 5, 2006 13:39:52 GMT -5
Remember that "Uncle Pockets" episode? "SUSPIIIIIICIouus!" "I'm sorry, Bloo, but to the best of MY knowledge, Uncle Pockets is NOT a 'lying, stinky doo-doo head'"! Man, Uncle Pockets is like, older than dirt, though, isn't he? He's outlived I-don't-know-how-many of his kids already. This just sorta bolsters my theory that the "Mons" of "The History of the Monster World" were, in fact, the first advanced Imaginary Friends created by Mans' children, only the Mans were not, for the most part, smart enough yet to figure out where these strange beings among them really came from. That would explain why monsters live so much longer than we do, and were so easily able to incorporate the DNA of other species into their genes, and why, with the exception of how most are created, the Imaginary Friends of the Foster's Unviverse are virtually indistinguishable from the denizens of the Monster World. I mean, take a look at that motley crew assembled outside the basketball court in GWH and TELL me that they don't look like residents of Monstropolis! pitbulllady
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Post by Veg on Dec 5, 2006 20:57:17 GMT -5
Good theory pitbulllady! I really do believe that, as you said, some of those Imaginary Friends could have been banished monsters and brought to Foster's home instead!
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