TIL that Bill Murray repeated the same day 12,395 times in Groundhog Day
TIL that Bill Murray repeated the same day 12,395 times in Groundhog Day
That's 34 years' worth of days!
Are we just making up TIL's, now? There was never an exact number in mind or set when the movie was made. Just "long".
I asked the Internet. You don't doubt the Internet, do you?
I also asked and the internet said I was right. And sexy.
Where’s your supporting source?
Groundhog Day (1993)
Ramis, H. (1993). Groundhog Day. Columbia Pictures.
I’m sorry, repeating the title of the movie already listed in the TIL doesn’t reach the standard of proof required to convince anyone that it was exactly XYZ number of lived days. Unless your source specifically (external to the movie) states that the movie states that it was XYZ number of days, you aren’t helping.
Ramis originally said it was around 10 years of repeated days but later changed to 30-40 years. https://collider.com/groundhog-day-time-loop/
Thank you. It reminds me of All You Need Is Kill, or the Edge of Tomorrow. In these kinds of movies they absolutely gloss over the massive amounts of time between the first repetition and the one that breaks the loop. Because, 90% of that is nothing, while %10 is incremental growth toward the break. Everyone’s played a game like a ‘souls like’, chess even, or a card game, and it takes hundreds of repetitions* to get slightly better. All I Need Is Kill does a good job of painting that picture, and The Edge of Tomorrow does a somewhat decent job of portraying that for cinema (they really should have kept the number count on his hand to subtly and fully express the time frame here). Honestly, for the movie, Groundhogs Day, we probably only see about 15-30 reps. But, the viewer can imagine significantly more. Same with something like the Apple+ show Black Matter, at the end of the season we’re led to believe what we saw as a dozen or so universes is now thousands, and it makes sense after the curtain is lifted.
There are a lot of theories, even from the creators: https://mashable.com/article/how-long-phil-connors-stuck-in-groundhog-day-time-loop
I'm honestly more inclined to agree with longer interpretations, as I'm sceptical that he was enough of a natural at all the skills he demonstrates in the movie to have perfected them all in just 6 weeks
If he was at my level of ability when it came to learning the piano, it would have taking him approximately 700 years to be able to play that song so well at the end.
I'm gonna need a source on that.
Some reddit post
That's karma, handing us the same lessons until we graduate to new ones.
It was so traumatizing he had to go see Richard Dreyfus for therapy.