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".
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Where’s your supporting source?
Groundhog Day (1993)
Ramis, H. (1993). Groundhog Day. Columbia Pictures.
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/
Okay, that makes it more understandable that he tried to kill himself, and then mastered the piano and several other things.
I think most people who watched the movie a time or two (or twenty) already knew it was many years that had gone by. What time frame were you imagining? Like 6 months or something?
I couldn't really say, but certainly not 1-4 decades. I guess I thought it was a year or two.
I think if you would re-watch it now, you'd think to yourself "yeah, thinking it was only a year or two was just silly"
You're not tricking me into watching that movie for a 47th time! To be fair to me, it was always on broadcast TV when I saw it, so I'd just come in wherever it was in the runtime.
Memorizing every little detail of everyone's lives and actions that day always seemed incredible to me. I assumed he lived that day hundreds of thousands of times. Meaning centuries spent repeating the same day.
At least that's what I imagine it would take, for me to try countless methods of suicide.
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
It was so traumatizing he had to go see Richard Dreyfus for therapy.
That's karma, handing us the same lessons until we graduate to new ones.
Bill Murray is the original Dr. Strange.
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