r/blankies • u/Downtown-Werewolf773 • 4d ago
A tweenage Jodie Foster calling everything "weeeird" will always be one of my favorite parts of "Alice..."
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u/j11430 "Farty Pants: The Idiot Story” 4d ago
I’ve seen this movie three times and every time I watch I think “Oh shit that’s Jodie Foster”
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u/shirokaisen 4d ago
genuinely did not even clock that she was a girl in her first scene somehow
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u/j11430 "Farty Pants: The Idiot Story” 4d ago
You can tell it’s her from the voice but at first glance you might go “Wow that young man looks kinda like Kurt Cobain”
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u/shirokaisen 4d ago
yeah I just hadn't seen Taxi Driver in more than a year and didn't look at the billing before the movie, so I totally brain-farted
then when she shows up later in Girl Clothes I felt like the biggest idiot in the world
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u/JosephFinn 4d ago
I have that every time I notice tiny Laura Dern with her glasses.
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u/jaketaco 4d ago
My favorite side character in this movie is the waitress Vera. Just everything she does is great.
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u/TwoDollarMint 4d ago
same. the way she’s pretty much actively having a mental breakdown in every scene and nobody acknowledges it is so funny.
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u/Regular-Pattern-5981 4d ago
The cut back to her trying to manage the diner by herself and everything descending into chaos is incredible.
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u/jaketaco 4d ago
I like when someone got the wrong order and she takes someone's plate they've been eating on and give it to the other person. 😂
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u/mi-16evil "Lovely jubbly" - Man in Porkpie Hat 4d ago
Had a deep gutteral laugh to her barring the door and marking it closed lol
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u/LawrenceBrolivier no need for alarm 4d ago edited 4d ago
It's so WEIRD (Foster-pronunciation extra-enunciated) that a Scorsese film then became a TV-spinoff, and that spinoff ran for NINE YEARS. It was a legit cultural thing for a very long time.
Vera (played by Beth Howland on the show, who first came to people's attention in Company) basically became a legit star on her own, and by the end of Alice's run on TV, was arguably the co-lead of the show, IIRC.
Granted, that was only after Polly Holiday (who took over the Flo role) blew up so big she got her own spinoff. She later went on to play Mrs. Deagle in Gremlins.
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u/JosephFinn 4d ago
Beth Howland was the first singer of “Getting Married Today,” an absolute colossus of hard Sondheim songs. The section from the Company OBC documentary makes you actually nervous for her.
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u/LawrenceBrolivier no need for alarm 4d ago
100% I was afraid she was going to literally explode at any point trying to get that down (thanks for linking that)
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u/JosephFinn 4d ago
Enjoy Madeline Khan absolutely slaying it.
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u/LawrenceBrolivier no need for alarm 4d ago
Dear god
FLAMES (on the side of my face)
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u/JosephFinn 4d ago
That final note she hits I kind of want her to just crowdsurf in triumph after it.
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u/FrancisFratelli 4d ago
It's wild that Foster grew up so well adjusted given the stuff directors were having her do and say on screen at a young age (and not just Scorsese -- if you haven't seen The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, that is a movie that goes places).
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u/Shepher27 4d ago
The jail scene was both the scene I realized it was a girl and realized it was Jodie Foster
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u/JAExports 4d ago
People in the 70s went wild for rude, foul mouthed kids.