50 Reasons Why Donnie Darko Might Just Be The Greatest Film Of All Time

41. The Cinema Scene

Whilst watching The Evil Dead, Donnie finally has a little chat with the iconic Frank. The operatic music fits perfectly as they talk about time travel and the future. It€™s revealed Frank has one eye missing and the movie starts to slowly unfold. The lines: €˜why you wearing that stupid bunny suit?€™ €˜Why you wearing that stupid man suit?€™ are said with such conviction. It€™s an epic, grand scaled scene, very simplistic but overwhelming. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXbBlGBoUms

42. Quotes:

€˜I know I€™m not the best communicator, but whatever happens to you, be honest, tell the truth. Even if they do look at you funny. They will. But what you gotta understand son, is that almost all of those people are full of shit.€™

43. OCD much? This taken from IMDB;

The movie takes place in 1988. Frank tells Donnie the world will end in 28 days, 06 hours, 42 minutes, and 12 seconds. If you add these numbers, the sum is 88. When Samantha asks when she can have kids, Donnie says: "Not until 8th grade." Donnie mentions to his therapist that his dog Callie died when he was eight. (He is later seen holding a stuffed toy dog in her office.) Donnie jokes about the Back to the Future DeLorean which had a speed of 88 MPH. According to the television reporter, the fire at Jim Cunningham's house was extinguished "sometime after 8:00 last night." The red-eye flight that almost crashes is Flight 2806 which boards at Gate 42 at 12 AM. The climax of Donnie Darko occurs one week before the 1988 US presidential election, when George Bush won on November 8, 1988 11/08/88. The movie was shot (for a budget of less than US$5 million) in 28 days. There are 28 scenes in the director's cut of this film.

44. The Score

Michael Andrews delivers a beautifully haunting score, working mostly alone he sculpted an albums worth of songs, most noticeably €˜Manipulated Living€™. It€™s gothic, dark and unsettling, going with the films themes and aesthetic transcendently. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SScSzRngDr0

45. Sparkle Motion

Along to Duran Duran€™s Notorious, lead by Donnie€™s sister the dance group Sparkle Motion perform a dance number at the school competition. I remember when I first watched the film trailer advertised on Film 4, the imagery of Frank the rabbit, and these dancers in silver just grabbed my full attention. It€™s so 80€™s but so memorable. The film€™s unique in so many ways. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsdk7q08lIc
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