1. Go along with it. 2. Do everything for fun. 3. Got bored. 5. Do everything a mind can imagine good or bad. 6. Went insane. 7. Became VERY sane. 8. Get shitton of skills. 9. Realize there was no 4th punct.
Groundhogborn: "This is Nazeem. He owns Chillfurrow Farm, alongside his wife, Ahlam. He spends his days insulting merchants and passerbys, and he sleeps in the upstairs room of The Drunken Huntsman despite having a home just outside town." Nazeem: "What? Who are you?"
I think he would likely be mentally crippled for the rest of his life. At first, not knowing what will happen might be freeing, but then he actually has to worry about stuff. It would result in a mental breakdown as things are no longer predictable. And you'd have to wake up every day wondering if the day will repeat again. And on bad days he wishes he could repeat, it would be all the more depressing. He would be torn between wanting new things and wanting days to repeat again.
It might move fast, but it would occur in a new moral and theological context, one that would probably alleviate his anxiety of purpose and of destiny. He is most godlike in his knowledge that the material realm may be transcended and his suspicion that he has some agency in such transcendence.
@@peoplez129 I am of the opinion that, the longer you live, the less of a fuck you give. So, in this story, we're talking about a man that was so bored of his futureless existence that he actually tried to kill himself. I don't think he would be that traumatized by his future. Specially being the only human with actual proof that there are unknown forces in the Universe and death is not always permanent. As a reference, there's the case of one of the oldest living women from France. Who, at the end of her days, simply wanted to die already.
@@LordSesshaku she probably wanted to die because she's so fucking old If I lived 10 thousand years in a young body tho of happily live another 10 more
The pain in a man's eyes when looking at a woman he's come to love over dozens of years yet she probably doesn't know his last name. Bill Murray portrayed this beautifully
"The movie, as everyone knows, is about a man who finds himself living the same day over and over and over again. He is the only person in his world who knows this is happening, and after going through periods of dismay and bitterness, revolt and despair, suicidal self-destruction and cynical recklessness, he begins to do something that is alien to his nature. He begins to learn." - Roger Ebert
I love how everyone is like, "Yes, that's so true - He just said something he couldn't have possibly known about me!" and then they just continue walking around the restaurant like nothing happened.
It's a small town in the middle of nowhere, the type of small place where everyone knows everyone through just a few steps. I live in a place like that, and its not abnormal for a complete stranger to know who i am and what i'm currently up to because they know a person who knows somebody in my family.
Well Doris just thinks he’s crazy and really only reacts to him saying the word Paris. The others react in a somewhat confused manner to what Phil is saying. I think they all knew that Phil was a news reporter visiting town and they may have just presumed that someone associated with the Groundhog Day festivities was blabbing about them (small town gossip).
I recall that in an interview with the director they asked how long was he stuck in perpetual ground hog day… The director figured about 29.5 years for Bill’s character to get as skilled and knowledgeable as he did in the end. But don’t quote me on this, it’s been a while to of me remembering this esoteric fact.
I believe it was 3000 years. In the directors commentary or the book it mentions it. That's why he knew EVERYONE and everything, down to the SECOND. He mastered many many skills. It takes more than 30 years to learn all that and memorize every single thing everyone will say, even if it's you that's talking to them and saying random things.
Not really if you are reliving the same day for 30 years you can learn new skills, know everyone in a small town, you would even know the weather changes minute by minute. Remember that is all he doing apart from doing the groundhog broadcast, which he might not bother showing up for. But its only a movie so it is an interesting philosophical idea so no one really knows how long.
@@sethlinnell2514 yes, we do. The creator of the entire thing said 3000 years. Some here are saying 10,000 years, but i know a minimum of 3000. It says so in a special commentary or the actual book. It's ALOT longer than 30 years.
Okay but my point is no one has ever relived the same day so you can't know how long it would take someone to learn everything about a small town. Like a someone with a genius level IQ it may only take them 30 years to learn everything etc. someone else it would take longer, also I think the creator meant 10,000 days not years.
Well, in his defence, when asked if he's a god, Ray turns his head to Venkman and the latter nods and raises his fist, basically telling Ray to say yes
What do you expect them to do? Tackle him? lol I'd just be surprised and think "Okay this is weird, I don't even know this guy" and move on with w/e I was doing. As long as he just says his piece and doesn't disturb me again I'll just brush it off.
MadDany You must be weird if someone said something personal about you and you have no idea who they are. “Oh that’s weird.” Yeah I’m sure that’s all you’d say. If they named your entire family and said what your favorite toy was as a kid, you definitely wouldn’t say that.
@@Den-pw3jt there's really only one thing you can do. You put a bag over their head and transport them to an undisclosed location to use enhanced interrogation techniques on them to find out how they know.
@@1pcfred that wont work 1. if you succeed,you cant remember because the loop keep repeating and the only that guy retain his memory 2. he has lived that day for thousands of years, he knows all your pattern of attack and can easily dodge everything
Spoiler At the end of the movie when he finally breaks the loop, just imagine how much more power he has. All of this new knowledge, he knows woodworking, ice carving, law, piano, all of this crazy stuff. I think a good number of those skills will get him farther in his life.
@@t.va.6611 I never stopped to consider what the timeline would be till now, but it could've been anything. Though at that point I would've learned how to become a King in a day and just do it everyday
No human has existed for so long. It is hard to tell whether someone would preserve his sanity if given immortality, let alone immortality bound to one particular day.
That's the thing I'nve always considered when seeing thhis movie, even when I was a kid! This man is punished by giving him the chance to learn things he'd have spent 10 to 20 lives learning the normal way!! Punishment? No sir, the repetition was a gift!! Cheers P.S. And he also gets the smart, funny, caring, loving and sexy girl, damn him. :D
“I told you, I wake up everyday, right here. Right in Punxsutawney. And it’s always February 2nd. And there’s nothing i can do about it.” The pain in his voice every time I hear it makes me so sad for him.
Can you even imagine how many decades...centuries potentially his character was trapped like this? Learned the exact timestable of every event of an entire town (to the point that events played out in his mind accurately to the second), memorized whole conversations, learned the piano to a concert pianist level, learned ice sculpture carving, wood working, accounting, law well enough to represent himself in court, and the life story of nearly every member of the town (nearly a thousand people)... ...jesus...
@Jim McCracken yeah there is a Cracked article about it and in the original draft a witch curses him and he relives it for 10 thousand years. Based on what he learns in the movie it's clearly at least one lifetime
@@LudaChez I couldnt even begin to imagine spending nearly just 1 lifetime repeating the same day, much less 10,000 years. I mean, it makes sense for him to spend that much time in a loop, but fuck...
“Maybe the real god uses tricks, maybe he isn’t omnipotent, he’s just been around so long he knows everything.” It’s an oddly profound line for something so throwaway.
How is that profound? It's not obvious to me how that's applicable to anything in the real world. Even for people who believe in gods, let's say that way those gods manifested their powers in their respective myths was them just knowing what was going to happen and then pretending to cause those things. That leaves you back at square one where you still need to explain what actually caused those things, except that you now have these random all-knowing but otherwise not powerful beings that you need to somehow fit into whatever new explanation you arrive at. It seems to me that it's just adding unnecessarily requirements to create a model for understanding the cosmos.
@@RobinClaassen I think you’re missing the point. The quote has less to do with god then human nature. If you stick around long enough, see enough of how people act and think, you can pretty much know how everybody acts and thinks since we’re not all that different from one another. As a concrete example I’d liken it back to those people who know enough about people to pass themselves off as psychics like Patrick Jane in the Mentalist.
As a moral parable, this was one of the finest films ever created. All our lives are on repeat to some extent. And to some people, they struggle with that. They have the low point, like he does in the film. And then they try to escape the monotony by being more integrated in their communities, by helping, by learning and growing. But it's not just about being perfect, he tries that. It's about matching that with being genuine and selflessness. It's only then that he escapes. But it's only then that he wouldn't want it to end.
I’d also add the escapism. When people first realize life is meaningless they fall into base pleasures that give temporary satisfaction but ultimately don’t make them happy. Then they’re led into desperate until they accept that being happy is more than just indulgence. Its a really powerful movie from start to finish.
I think to qualify as some of the finest moral parables in film form, something shouldn't include abusive behaviour towards women, like pushing them around, but maybe that's just me. Also, telling somebody you're romantically interested in them after you just demonstrated good reason to believe your claim of godhood is...uhm...not romantic. It would be the scariest thing one could ever experience.
This film is an underrated masterpiece. It's like "It's a Wonderful Life" in that it gets better with age and with new audiences and is appreciated more and more as time goes by.
Agreed. The whole script is amazing... very lean - every line has a purpose. This scene is a stunner - but which scene isn't damn near perfect film.. For me it's the best.
Really nice note: thoughout the scene, Phil goes from displaying his omniscience through knowledge of everyone's past, knowledge of Rita's present, and finally, knowledge of the future, it's a nice flow
Future is the easy part, he only needed to be in the cafe once to know what happens. Learning everyone's past would probably need more days, maybe 1 per person.
NortonsNestMonthly So who made God then? Or who made the universe? It takes a great amount of energy to create matter, and there's a lot of it. God is all knowing, except when he chooses not to see the future of certain things, and all powerful, but he is not omnipresent. You can research the fulfillment of all the Bible prophecies, especially Babylon's destruction, to see for yourself.
"You can research the fulfillment of all the Bible prophecies, especially Babylon's destruction, to see for yourself." Do you mean the annihilation of Tyre? And by fulfillment, I'm assuming you mean failure of fulfillment. Is there a separate "God's gonna destroy this place" prophecy that failed, or is Tyre the same as Babylon?
I like to think that the writer sat down and began to think, "now what kind of story could you write about Groundhog Day?" and came up with a masterpiece.
With any great writing, the writer has to go over and over and revise what he's written to gradually improve it. As one famous writer put it, "The first draft is always shit." Groundhog Day is like a man living the revision process for a single day, until he finally improves the day enough to submit the final draft.
@@joeschembrie9450 the movie is basically the Gnostic doctrine that the Demiurge imprisoned us, the angels, in an eternal cycle of aeons and in flesh, because he's basically gone mad and programmed a buggy videogame. see also Ready Player One by Spielberg, another occult mofo.
There’s a book called “How to Write Groundhog Day” where the original screenwriter explains where the idea came from and even shows his original script. The idea for the repeating day came before he chose Groundhog Day, and he wrote the script in four days, with a lot of prep work before and revisions after. The original script is very different from the movie. When it starts, Phil has already been repeating Groundhog Day for some time. They changed it so the audience could see his reaction the first time it looped, but I think the most important effect of the change was that we know how much of a jerk Phil was even before the loop started. In the original script you just see him being a jerk and justifying his behavior because of the time loop and lack of permanent consequences for anybody, but in movie, it’s clear that he was already a jerk, and the time loop just allowed him to express that more. The other big differences between the original script and the movie were that the script was full of voice over narration from Phil explaining why he did what he did, and his relationship with Rita wasn’t as central to the plot. It wasn’t a traditional romantic comedy, but the movie turned into one.
...You want to see Joffrey from Game of Thrones go through infinite groundhog day? Go check out "Purple Days" by Baurus on Spacebattles. Cute little novel.
Imagine if he does it so often it becomes a reflex. Just as soon as something goes wrong, oops, time to snap my own neck! Then he exits the groundhog day loop, but he still has the reflex. That would suck.
“Nancy, she.. works in the dress shop, and *makes noises like a chipmunk when she gets real excited* ” ( _Hey!_ ) this always makes me giggle and I love it
its amusing but at the same time embarrassing for those who do it involuntary. My ex used to neigh very similar to a horse when touched in a certain area (non sexual) and was always bright red after with embarrassment.
I feel fortunate I was lucky enough to see this in a theater. It was packed. The reaction was quite strong. What a great amazing film. It’s not just the comedy, it’s the humanity.
It's too bad that the film destroyed the friendship of Bill Murray and Harold Ramis so that they never talked again until Ramis was on his death bed and the two men finally buried the hatchet.
@@ComedyBros5 They had very different visions for the film to the point that they stopped talking to each other because of the constant fighting. Murray is notoriously difficult to work with on set, with people including Lucy Liu refusing to work with him again. After Groundhog Day, Murray and Ramis were so angry with one another that neither man spoke to the other again until Ramis lay dying and Murray came to see him and make his final peace. It's a large part of why we never got a Ghostbusters 3.
Groundhog Day is a roguelike where you die over and over again, keeping nothing but memories of the mistakes you made and knowledge of how to overcome them the next time.
This is actually a very sad scene. You can see that he really loves her and knows her now so well that he. can feel what she feels but she can't truly share his feelings so he feels so close to her but at the same time so lonely. I'm not usually emotional about something about love in movies, but this scene makes me feel really sad about Phil.
@Mama Murphy Actually, it's not really true. I do know a lot about a person I love and she knows a lot about me. And that's why this scene is so heartbreaking because I understand how bad it would be to love somebody who doesn't know you well because I have the opposite experience
No... when you max out ever possible relationship in a game many many times... and then start a new game... you know everyone's deepest secrets, but no one, anywhere, has ever known you...
This movie still has my favorite love story of all time. The protagonist tries everything he can to get his crush to "love" _him_ , failing every time because his love for her was ultimately selfish. It isn't until he learns to love everyone around him, to care for those around him, and _be_ a better person that they can love each other.
This is my all-time favorite movie. I have watched it well over a hundred times and never tire of it. I could watch it a hundred more times and still not be tired of it. It is actually a metaphor of virtually every person's life because we ALL go through trying to do things our way and act arrogant and think that we are masters of our own fate. But that always turns out not to be true. Humbling ourselves after experiencing the inevitable hard knocks of life makes us know what is REALLY important. Kindness, humility, generosity, giving of ourselves, loving one another as we want to be loved, and always striving to be better than we were the day before. The screenwriter for this movie is purely a genius.
[Update] oops not sure what I was responding to here I agree that ppl want to be "masters of there own fate" and being HUMBLE is important. If you feel moved to respond to the question below feel free: And why do you think these are virtuous right things to do....?
Bill Murray did fantastic with this. Comedy is obviously his forte, but for this film he captured the drama very well. By the time of this scene he really had captured the kind of desperation we all feel a times when life just seems to be one day flowing in and out of the other.
@What's Your Worldview Why is it that we must resort to namecalling whenever something happens that we don't like? Sheesh, I'm reading the comments to see people enjoying this scene for what it is. Why must this happen in every video? Even if it was two years ago.
Then when you make a habit of it and someone seriously asks you, you go "Yes. I - I m-m-mean, no!" all shifty-like and they have a moment of "Wait, _are_ you actually a god?!?"
More accurately said, we are all "specks" of God .. Religion: From The Latin Word "Religare," Meaning: to tie back; to hold back; to bind fast. Binding. "All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few" ~ Seneca "Religion is regarded as true by the common people, by the WISE as false, and by the Rulers as useful." ~ Seneca “I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.” ~ Seneca Currently there are right around 4200 different religions and/or spiritual philosophical understandings on planet earth, 12 of which are considered major world religions. IMO none of them need to be exclusively memorized or vehemently embraced. When taking Yin & Yang opposite energies into account one only needs to mildly recognize how it is that ancient eastern religions that include reincarnation best coincides with yin and yang opposite philosophy. Realizing that one can measure God's existence. Earth is a polarized finite material planet within a finite material universe within a INFINITE material and spiritual universe. Earth's entire environment consists of a micro to macro spectrum of extreme to subtle opposites. Examples of Yin and Yang Dualism: Attribute- centrifugal-centripetal-force, Tendency- expansion-contraction, Position- outward-inward, Direction- ascent-descent, Temperature- hot-cold, Weigh- light-heavy, Atomic- electron-proton, Biological- vegetable-animal, Sex- male-female, Structure- space-time, Factor- water-fire, Movement- passive-active, Function- diffusion-fusion, Vibration- shorter wave and higher frequency-longer wave and lower frequency, etc, etc. The opposite of finite is Infinite. All things finite (matter) begin and eventually end (change being the only constant). Infinity has no beginning or ending and for that reason Infinity is God. Since the finite material realm is within Infinity All is specks/fragments/part and parcel of God. *"ALL within the ALL is ALL we ALL are ... Peace"..* Breakdown: *ALL* (finite beginning-ending/changing matter) *within the ALL* (Infinite Beginningless-Endingless/Non-Changing Spirit) *is ALL we ALL are,* therefore you and I are smaller consciousness finite fragments/specks/part and parcel of god, but we are NOT the Infinite Spiritual Realms Super Consciousness Summit/Peak that is Godhead while we exist as finite realm material beings ... *Peace* .. Now do you realize that you, I, we, are all specks of god. I CANNOT prove it from me to you, HOWEVER you can prove it to yourself if YOU have the discipline to do so. That's the way the grand "Order of the Infinite Universe" design is set up in arrangement for the *"Imperfect to become Perfect."* Humans are both material and spiritual beings. More-so with spiritual resonance if ones pineal gland is clean as in *Leviticus 15: "Cleanliness is Next to Godliness"..* THEREFORE clean away the sleepy eye crust from your third eye ajna chakra ... then learn to abandon the ego before you pine away ... Crucify the ego before its far too late .. Prying open the 3rd eye .. Humanity lives... "fearfully"... "submerged"... within finite matter mostly unable to comprehend Infinity/God... Therefore "We All Live In A ... "Yellow"... "Submarine" .. *..."Fearful/Yellow"..."Submerged/Submarine"..."Infinity/God"..* Bhagavad-Gita - Book of India, Siddhartha Gautama,The Buddha - taught primarily in northeastern India, Jesus In India (& Tibet etc.) - The 18 Missing Years, George Ohsawa - Macrobiotic Yin Yang Philosophy Post Atom-Bomb(s) Bombardment 1945, visits India 1953-1955, The Beatles In India circa 1968 - Yellow Submarine released November 13, 1968. *UA-cam: Amazing documentary The Missing History of Jesus (Fatima Alaina)* *"A Complete Macrobiotic Yin Yang Philosophic Understanding Combined With Its Practical Dietary Discipline Is Timeless Universal Law. All Other Teachings Are Incomplete"~ Herman Aihara, Michio Kushi & George Ohsawa*
Zen Macrobiotics still you believe in something that really doesnt exist whatsoever, there is no god :) and there is no ying yang, no feng shui, no budda, no jesus.... :) you and your crazy stories are based on crazy stories...in other words, you trying to prove something irrational with irrational quotes, this is a long post of shitness.
This was one of the first instances where Bill Murray was truly acting dramatically. Not for cheap laughs, or for acerbic sarcasm, but for the purpose to evoke genuine heartfelt emotion. He was always a good actor, it just took him 30 years to realize it himself.
This movie is really close to me. We had a bad snow storm when this movie came out. My family had to be evacuated to the community center in my town. A stranger bought us tickets to go see it since the theater was open next door. It was the first movie I watched in a theater. For 1 hour and 41 minutes my family was together, no yelling no fighting, and no hitting. We laughed we talked about how good it was. It was my favorite childhood memory. Thank you Bill Murray.
Now that's a story.. well written and didn't overstay its welcome in a single paragraph. Your storytelling skills are better than most of modern Hollywood.
The next moment, his repetitive existence was finally cut short when another man claiming to be an immortal barged in brandishing a sword, proclaiming that there could "be only one" before cutting Phil's head off.
Videos from this era are obsessed with showing waiters dropping dishes for some reason I cannot understand. At least it isn't the usual over-the-top slapstick performance.
This kind of makes me want to watch this movie. EDIT -- Whelp, I rented it for $4, and I got to say, this is a really good movie. I'm surprised. I always thought it'd be boring. I love how he changes over time, and finally becomes a good person. It's almost like a metaphor for reincarnation, living lives stuck in this world, over and over again, and slowly but surely figuring out what we're supposed to do... which is something we knew all along. Love one another, love yourself, and love others _as_ you love yourself.
Bobby Bobby Actually, since almost whatever Phil did on Groundhog Day had no consequences before the final day that ended with Phil in bed with Rita the next morning, it probably was not that hard to follow during storyboarding. The crew just had to make sure that the boy broke his leg if Phil did not save him, that the homeless man died that night in any case, that nobody but Rita, Larry, and Ned called Phil by his first name if he did not yet introduce himself, etc.
You only capitalize god when referring to "God" not simply a god. It's like the President or the Queen. It's filling the role of a proper noun. He claims to be a god, not God.
The idea of how much he's clearly sat down and talked with every single person here to learn everything about them makes me wonder what a groundhog day style visual novel would be like.
You might enjoy Little Busters. Each replay is canonically the story repeating, sometimes with small changes. It's available on Steam and I strongly recommend it!
Very underrated movie, probably my favorite Bill Murry film. The scene when he is trying desperately to save the old homeless guy but cant no matter how he changes the circumstances is heartbreaking.
@@kfgrip It's partly my opinion but also backed up by a ton of lists if you just Google online what some of the best comedy movies are. Groundhog Day is often there. Just because it didn't make money, doesn't mean it's not a great movie.
@@kfgrip It's wrong to say it didn't do well at the box office. It made back 5 times its budget, and that's before video rentals, which was a huge industry at the time. Most films lose money, and any investment that more than quintuples your investment is a good one! And anyway, how well a movie is "rated" just isn't to do with box office. The Shawshank Redemption, Citizen Kane etc are widely rated as some of the best movies ever made and had underwhelming box office. Their reputation grew over the years. It's like saying that Van Gogh is underrated as a painter because he only sold one painting when he was alive. Groundhog Day is widely rated as one of the best film comedies ever, and its title has even entered the language giving it a cultural influence that most movies can only dream of.
I truly think this was one of the greatest movies ever made. I really do. It's just so good. It's a comedy, but it's so much more than that. It's the humanity, the philosophy of reliving the same day over and over again, being so bored with life that he begins to try to end it. It's a masterpiece, truly.
The movie was filmed in Woodstock, IL. Bill Murray was staying in the Cherry Tree Inn B&B, a real bed and breakfast. There are four rooms available for rent. We stayed in the very room that was shown in the movie. It overlooks the street leading up to the city square. You can walk to the place where the groundhog appeared. The place where Bill stepped off the curb into the water has a marker. You can eat in the diner shown in the movie. Items from the movie are on display in the house, like the clock radio on Bill's nightstand. When we stayed there, I set my iPhone's alarm to play the exact part of "I Got You Babe" that played each morning as an alarm.
“You’re very generous, you’re kind to strangers and children. And when you stand in the snow you look like an angel.” It doesn’t take a god to say that.
I agree with Alex Stephens. You know? There are plenty of amazing movies that didn't win any oscars or golden globes like Stand By Me and The Sixth Sense.
@@mattjones6578 yet not only is the Church cleanest of the evil you project on her out of EVERY group, the Church created everything you take for granted. your hatred is but your vain attempt to ignore, to paraphrase Venerable Fulton Sheen.
Even the Bible talks about there being other gods - the commandment, "Thou shalt have no other gods before Me." The God versus a god - the capitalization actually does have meaning.
True! I think the simple, albeit incomplete answer, is a gradual invasion into the arts, by what I call "money men". IE the people who are only interested in making money, that in and of itself is the craft. Those people can be a gift in certain industries, for instance banking, insurance etc. However the very same people in the very same positions in for instance the arts, that's like injecting poison into the very reasoning you are in the field to begin with. - but I digress :) The real reason I commented was to recommend you a newer movie, that also plays around the really surreal. It's called Stranger Than fiction, and although it's definitely not for everyone, I liked it a lot! Here is the trailer(spoiler warning; it does reveal enough that you get the entire plot): ua-cam.com/video/0iqZD-oTE7U/v-deo.html&ab_channel=MovieclipsClassicTrailers
If you get really bored, the Steven Tobolowsky (he played Ned Ryerson, the insurance guy) did a podcast talking about this movie and he said that originally it was going to be just another big dumb Bill Murray comedy and then they started filming and tried something different. Instead of using a chainsaw to tear up the hotel room to prove the loop, he just broke a pencil. When this worked, they started feverishly rewriting the whole movie as they were filming it to be what it ended up being -- a parable and something so much more.
Then you would love the reaction when the same think happens in the UK. It is almost a tradition to call for the juggler to be sacked followed by raucous catcalling and applause.
I visited the location of this scene in 2017. It was a Mexican restaurant (maybe still is) but my friend and I made a point of sitting exactly where they are in the opening scene here. It was kind of cool. Woodstock Illinois just outside Chicago.
Fun Fact: Bill Murray resented Harold Ramis so much by the end of the filming of Groundhog Day, that the only way he would allow communication between them was through an interpreter. The Interpreter was def and only communicated through sign language. But Harold was also used to this behavior from Bill. So he actually made sure to film the scenes of this movie in Reverse. The ending was filmed first and they filmed the first half last. Harold knew that Bill would be so fed up with filming that he'd already be the jerk shown at the beginning of the film.
One of the best character arcs in cinematic history. Underneath the gags and lol moments is a very real story of a man discovering its not what the world can give to him, but what he can give to the world...in particular, to a woman he loves.
I agree about his arc, but I think it's kind of opposite too. He starts out thinking he's God's gift to the world and discovers what the world (albeit the small world of Punxsutawney) has to offer him. What he is able to give to the world in the end, is what he has learned from the world throughout the story.
@@crawfish9042 he who seeks to save his soul will lose himself, he who destroys his soul in my name will find himself - mathew 16:25 first man adam was made a living soul, last adam spirit who makes living through one man death entered the world through his dying to destroy him who has the power of death, the devil
The music cues for this movie were so perfect. Like that flue or piccolo music that starts when Phil starts really telling Rita about herself. To me, it just really captures his sincerity in his moment of desperation, his feelings for her, and her finally starting to actually believe he's not just using tricks. It really helps move the mood from comical to solemn so effectively, without being overly blunt or overpowering the scene. The movie has many of these moments where the music is just perfect.
This is the ultimate portrait of feeling isolated. Not alone. Not solitary. Isolated. Isolated in a way most people should never know. Being completely different and separated, yet having people around you................................
Just think if they start dating he’s going to be years into the relationship the next day and she’s just going to be playing catch-up for the rest of her life
I never really thought about this but the entire cast did a great job in this film doing the same scenes over and over and good job on not making it boring it's an excellent movie
He's got a much better memory than me. After I'd spent a day with each person in the cafe getting to know them spanning what must've been months, I'd have forgotten even the names of the first half I met.
It's one of my favorite movies of all time. I love that concept of repeating the same day over and over again. Always entiruges me when a sci-fi movie or show does it. Here's one for ya... I was born 2/2/1993 add up 1+9+9+3 = 22. I don't know if it means anything, and I absolutely hate numerology, but the number 22 has following me my entire life in the most unsettling way. Life sure is cool
"you're very generous. You're kind to strangers and children.... and when you stand in the snow you look like an angel".... all of the things he said before this were legitimately psychic and yet THAT is when she interjected and said "how are you doing this?", not before. Best romantic movie ever made. Best drama ever made. Best romantic comedy ever made. Best action movie ever made (it's showtime, Phil!). Best comedy ever made. Best film ever made. PERIOD.
It's funny that despite all those more factual demonstrations that the thing that "convinced" her was appealing to her emotions and ego through romantic compliments, lol. Something something not helping stereotypes about women mumble mumble...
He had been on hundreds of dates with her up till that point. He had the entire day rehearsed up until the final seconds when he had the idea to write it down. He had to spend days worth of time to learn everybody's story.
@@EmptyMan000 I think you meant to say flattery in your explanation of how you missed the entire point of the movie, but no this wasn’t flattery. This was a genuine compliment from the heart, hence her reaction “how are you doing this?”. The ego inflating flattery that you think is happening here came during his attempt to create the perfect day to sleep with her. By this point in the movie, he has killed himself possibly thousands or even millions of times. He’s past flattery. He wants connection So YES, this heartfelt compliment IS when she started believing in his abilities and I see no problem with it. Noticing details about a day that you’ve been forced to live over and over again is hardly an ability anyways. But love? Now that’s an ability
What to do if you're stuck in a time-loop:
1- Figure out how to break out of it.
2- Do everything else before you break out.
1. Go along with it.
2. Do everything for fun.
3. Got bored.
5. Do everything a mind can imagine good or bad.
6. Went insane.
7. Became VERY sane.
8. Get shitton of skills.
9. Realize there was no 4th punct.
@@t.va.6611 10. Realize you didn't stay consistent with your verb tenses
11. Delete comment
1. Realize time isnt real and its an illusion
2.Have fun
@@colonelburton8451 i have a dyslexia and this is not my native language.
ps: fuck you and have a nice day, you rude piece of shit.
Max out your Smithing skill, a lot.
This entire movie is pretty much doing all side quests before main story
Groundhogborn: "This is Nazeem. He owns Chillfurrow Farm, alongside his wife, Ahlam. He spends his days insulting merchants and passerbys, and he sleeps in the upstairs room of The Drunken Huntsman despite having a home just outside town."
Nazeem: "What? Who are you?"
In majora's mask lol
this is more than a movie
Or NG++
AKA New Game ++++++
when you've replayed a game so many times you're ready to contribute to the wiki
😂
I should start contributing to the Wiki for Fallout 4
Funny you say that, because I’ve have been recently contributing to the wiki for SPNATI.
@@victoracosta4796 Ahh, a fellow man of culture. I should really check to see what’s new.
@@victoracosta4796
Strip Poker Night at the Inventory?
my man memorized the dialogue to the NPCs so he can speedrun the quests
Perfect comment!
you are 1000% true man
Exactly!
Comedy 🤣🤣💀
He perfected his craft throughout 13,000 play throughs(someone did the math)
The saddest thing is that because he was stuck in this loop for a LONG time, the rest of his life will come and go really fast.
I think he would likely be mentally crippled for the rest of his life. At first, not knowing what will happen might be freeing, but then he actually has to worry about stuff. It would result in a mental breakdown as things are no longer predictable. And you'd have to wake up every day wondering if the day will repeat again. And on bad days he wishes he could repeat, it would be all the more depressing. He would be torn between wanting new things and wanting days to repeat again.
It might move fast, but it would occur in a new moral and theological context, one that would probably alleviate his anxiety of purpose and of destiny. He is most godlike in his knowledge that the material realm may be transcended and his suspicion that he has some agency in such transcendence.
@@peoplez129 I am of the opinion that, the longer you live, the less of a fuck you give. So, in this story, we're talking about a man that was so bored of his futureless existence that he actually tried to kill himself. I don't think he would be that traumatized by his future. Specially being the only human with actual proof that there are unknown forces in the Universe and death is not always permanent.
As a reference, there's the case of one of the oldest living women from France. Who, at the end of her days, simply wanted to die already.
But he'll spend it with her, so I think he's good with that.
@@LordSesshaku she probably wanted to die because she's so fucking old
If I lived 10 thousand years in a young body tho of happily live another 10 more
Something nobody's noticing but I think should be appreciated: this vid was posted on Feb 2nd
wow the dedication.
Holy groundhog day, Batman!
Underrated comment right here.
Johnny Asel You are *a god*
I don’t get it
"I am immortal"
...
"The special today is blueberry waffles."
Doris is great.
Blue waffle
"I can come back..."
Slightly triggered your misquote has so many likes....
*"I'm an Immortal"
She's not here to judge or eavesdrop, but the WTF look on her face is great.
That's just how it be working in a diner.
The pain in a man's eyes when looking at a woman he's come to love over dozens of years yet she probably doesn't know his last name. Bill Murray portrayed this beautifully
Except the genders are reversed
And it's a role that only Bill Murray could've pulled off
@@DragnSly......Bill Murray could pull off the clothes of The Emperor who Has No Clothes! Ponder that one!!
His name was Connors, she knows it!
Dozens? Thousands.
"The movie, as everyone knows, is about a man who finds himself living the same day over and over and over again. He is the only person in his world who knows this is happening, and after going through periods of dismay and bitterness, revolt and despair, suicidal self-destruction and cynical recklessness, he begins to do something that is alien to his nature. He begins to learn."
- Roger Ebert
Hey man, thanks for quoting my favourite film critic:)
Great quote, thanks for posting.
Man that hit me in the feels, really miss that man.
Roger Ebert may have given a movie you liked a bad score, or a movie you loath a good score, but he always made you think
It's also been said that Phil repeated the same day over and over around 40000 times, or around 110 years.
The cgi on this is crazy. Garfield has never looked so life like
El O El
GarFiLel u FAt caT
Lorenzo music!
i think you dropped a chronosome or two on your way out... here they are
@@verloser on the contrary, I just found one !
I love how everyone is like, "Yes, that's so true - He just said something he couldn't have possibly known about me!" and then they just continue walking around the restaurant like nothing happened.
Yeah, that actually emphasized the suspicion of it being a setup, even though it was just lazy directing/writing.
Maybe he only chose the people who don't make a big deal out of it.
@@Dowlphin I think it's just a creative decision. It makes it look more theatrical and surreal that plays good with the movie
It's a small town in the middle of nowhere, the type of small place where everyone knows everyone through just a few steps.
I live in a place like that, and its not abnormal for a complete stranger to know who i am and what i'm currently up to because they know a person who knows somebody in my family.
Well Doris just thinks he’s crazy and really only reacts to him saying the word Paris. The others react in a somewhat confused manner to what Phil is saying. I think they all knew that Phil was a news reporter visiting town and they may have just presumed that someone associated with the Groundhog Day festivities was blabbing about them (small town gossip).
I recall that in an interview with the director they asked how long was he stuck in perpetual ground hog day… The director figured about 29.5 years for Bill’s character to get as skilled and knowledgeable as he did in the end. But don’t quote me on this, it’s been a while to of me remembering this esoteric fact.
I believe it was 3000 years. In the directors commentary or the book it mentions it. That's why he knew EVERYONE and everything, down to the SECOND. He mastered many many skills. It takes more than 30 years to learn all that and memorize every single thing everyone will say, even if it's you that's talking to them and saying random things.
Dude thatll make the rest of his life seem like nothing
Not really if you are reliving the same day for 30 years you can learn new skills, know everyone in a small town, you would even know the weather changes minute by minute. Remember that is all he doing apart from doing the groundhog broadcast, which he might not bother showing up for. But its only a movie so it is an interesting philosophical idea so no one really knows how long.
@@sethlinnell2514 yes, we do. The creator of the entire thing said 3000 years. Some here are saying 10,000 years, but i know a minimum of 3000. It says so in a special commentary or the actual book. It's ALOT longer than 30 years.
Okay but my point is no one has ever relived the same day so you can't know how long it would take someone to learn everything about a small town. Like a someone with a genius level IQ it may only take them 30 years to learn everything etc. someone else it would take longer, also I think the creator meant 10,000 days not years.
Ghostbusters Bill Murray : "If somebody asks if you're a god, you say YES!"
Groundhog day Bill Murray : "I'm a god"
Progression.....
Winston said that, not Venkman...
At some point while he was trapped in that loop, he became a Ghostbuster....
Well, in his defence, when asked if he's a god, Ray turns his head to Venkman and the latter nods and raises his fist, basically telling Ray to say yes
Alright, this chick is toast.
No-one cares or is surprised by the fact that this stranger knows intimate details of their lives.
What do you expect them to do? Tackle him? lol
I'd just be surprised and think "Okay this is weird, I don't even know this guy" and move on with w/e I was doing. As long as he just says his piece and doesn't disturb me again I'll just brush it off.
MadDany You must be weird if someone said something personal about you and you have no idea who they are. “Oh that’s weird.” Yeah I’m sure that’s all you’d say. If they named your entire family and said what your favorite toy was as a kid, you definitely wouldn’t say that.
@@Den-pw3jt there's really only one thing you can do. You put a bag over their head and transport them to an undisclosed location to use enhanced interrogation techniques on them to find out how they know.
@@1pcfred that wont work
1. if you succeed,you cant remember because the loop keep repeating and the only that guy retain his memory
2. he has lived that day for thousands of years, he knows all your pattern of attack and can easily dodge everything
@@longphan7656 I don't think you understand how branching realities work.
Spoiler
At the end of the movie when he finally breaks the loop, just imagine how much more power he has. All of this new knowledge, he knows woodworking, ice carving, law, piano, all of this crazy stuff. I think a good number of those skills will get him farther in his life.
Who knows how much he had learned. Considering him being in the loop might be from a decade to thousands of years.
@@t.va.6611 I never stopped to consider what the timeline would be till now, but it could've been anything. Though at that point I would've learned how to become a King in a day and just do it everyday
No human has existed for so long. It is hard to tell whether someone would preserve his sanity if given immortality, let alone immortality bound to one particular day.
Ethan Umpleby further* in his life. farther is for physical distances
That's the thing I'nve always considered when seeing thhis movie, even when I was a kid! This man is punished by giving him the chance to learn things he'd have spent 10 to 20 lives learning the normal way!!
Punishment? No sir, the repetition was a gift!!
Cheers
P.S. And he also gets the smart, funny, caring, loving and sexy girl, damn him. :D
“I told you, I wake up everyday, right here. Right in Punxsutawney. And it’s always February 2nd. And there’s nothing i can do about it.”
The pain in his voice every time I hear it makes me so sad for him.
Can you even imagine how many decades...centuries potentially his character was trapped like this?
Learned the exact timestable of every event of an entire town (to the point that events played out in his mind accurately to the second), memorized whole conversations, learned the piano to a concert pianist level, learned ice sculpture carving, wood working, accounting, law well enough to represent himself in court, and the life story of nearly every member of the town (nearly a thousand people)...
...jesus...
a few days shy of 34 years.
there is a video that actually breaks it down, and ya it was a looong time... sheez
@Jim McCracken yeah there is a Cracked article about it and in the original draft a witch curses him and he relives it for 10 thousand years.
Based on what he learns in the movie it's clearly at least one lifetime
@@LudaChez I couldnt even begin to imagine spending nearly just 1 lifetime repeating the same day, much less 10,000 years. I mean, it makes sense for him to spend that much time in a loop, but fuck...
😮
Imagine having to repeat groundhog day with a bad case of stomach flu.
Absolute hell
Or with just cold water in the bathroom.
Yeah people forget how important health is to quality of life
Is stomach flu even a thing? Just call it food poisoning.
@@alexveldhuis6004 I'm a doctor and stomach flu and food poisoning are two different things. Please research it on the internet.
“Maybe the real god uses tricks, maybe he isn’t omnipotent, he’s just been around so long he knows everything.”
It’s an oddly profound line for something so throwaway.
How is that profound? It's not obvious to me how that's applicable to anything in the real world.
Even for people who believe in gods, let's say that way those gods manifested their powers in their respective myths was them just knowing what was going to happen and then pretending to cause those things. That leaves you back at square one where you still need to explain what actually caused those things, except that you now have these random all-knowing but otherwise not powerful beings that you need to somehow fit into whatever new explanation you arrive at. It seems to me that it's just adding unnecessarily requirements to create a model for understanding the cosmos.
@@RobinClaassen I think you’re missing the point. The quote has less to do with god then human nature. If you stick around long enough, see enough of how people act and think, you can pretty much know how everybody acts and thinks since we’re not all that different from one another. As a concrete example I’d liken it back to those people who know enough about people to pass themselves off as psychics like Patrick Jane in the Mentalist.
@@ChuckyMarks Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for explaining that!
You should read the egg.
@@Zivenox I think I know the little story you’re talking about. That’s the one where you have to live as every person on earth, ya?
As a moral parable, this was one of the finest films ever created. All our lives are on repeat to some extent. And to some people, they struggle with that. They have the low point, like he does in the film. And then they try to escape the monotony by being more integrated in their communities, by helping, by learning and growing. But it's not just about being perfect, he tries that. It's about matching that with being genuine and selflessness. It's only then that he escapes. But it's only then that he wouldn't want it to end.
Beautifully said
I’d also add the escapism. When people first realize life is meaningless they fall into base pleasures that give temporary satisfaction but ultimately don’t make them happy. Then they’re led into desperate until they accept that being happy is more than just indulgence. Its a really powerful movie from start to finish.
I think to qualify as some of the finest moral parables in film form, something shouldn't include abusive behaviour towards women, like pushing them around, but maybe that's just me.
Also, telling somebody you're romantically interested in them after you just demonstrated good reason to believe your claim of godhood is...uhm...not romantic. It would be the scariest thing one could ever experience.
@@wawawuu1514 bruh💀
@@plugshirt1762 Yeah?
This scene is a masterpiece. In just 3 minutes you have slapstick humor, science fiction, drama, and romance.
"Rocketman" (1997) is pretty great too :-D
and religious/philosophical references.
This film is an underrated masterpiece. It's like "It's a Wonderful Life" in that it gets better with age and with new audiences and is appreciated more and more as time goes by.
Yes. Pathos. Very well said Mr. Peaches
Agreed. The whole script is amazing... very lean - every line has a purpose. This scene is a stunner - but which scene isn't damn near perfect film.. For me it's the best.
Really nice note: thoughout the scene, Phil goes from displaying his omniscience through knowledge of everyone's past, knowledge of Rita's present, and finally, knowledge of the future, it's a nice flow
He DOES know the ghosts of past, present, and future after all.
I never really appreciated this before, thanks for pointing it out.
Future is the easy part, he only needed to be in the cafe once to know what happens. Learning everyone's past would probably need more days, maybe 1 per person.
i'm going to start introducing all of my comments with "really nice note:"
What about the dishes
"Maybe God's not omnipotent. Maybe he's been around so long, he knows everything." Just amazing.
I do like that they don't reveal what has been causing the time loop, whether it is god, fate, the universe, destiny, karma, or anything is open.
*****
There's genius in ambiguity if it's used the right way.
Like what's in the briefcase in Pulp Fiction!!
NortonsNestMonthly So who made God then? Or who made the universe? It takes a great amount of energy to create matter, and there's a lot of it. God is all knowing, except when he chooses not to see the future of certain things, and all powerful, but he is not omnipresent. You can research the fulfillment of all the Bible prophecies, especially Babylon's destruction, to see for yourself.
"You can research the fulfillment of all the Bible prophecies, especially Babylon's destruction, to see for yourself."
Do you mean the annihilation of Tyre? And by fulfillment, I'm assuming you mean failure of fulfillment. Is there a separate "God's gonna destroy this place" prophecy that failed, or is Tyre the same as Babylon?
I like to think that the writer sat down and began to think, "now what kind of story could you write about Groundhog Day?" and came up with a masterpiece.
It’s almost impossible to not associate time looping with Groundhog Day now
With any great writing, the writer has to go over and over and revise what he's written to gradually improve it. As one famous writer put it, "The first draft is always shit." Groundhog Day is like a man living the revision process for a single day, until he finally improves the day enough to submit the final draft.
@@joeschembrie9450 the movie is basically the Gnostic doctrine that the Demiurge imprisoned us, the angels, in an eternal cycle of aeons and in flesh, because he's basically gone mad and programmed a buggy videogame. see also Ready Player One by Spielberg, another occult mofo.
I like to think the writer sat down and finished the story in one very long day.
There’s a book called “How to Write Groundhog Day” where the original screenwriter explains where the idea came from and even shows his original script. The idea for the repeating day came before he chose Groundhog Day, and he wrote the script in four days, with a lot of prep work before and revisions after.
The original script is very different from the movie. When it starts, Phil has already been repeating Groundhog Day for some time. They changed it so the audience could see his reaction the first time it looped, but I think the most important effect of the change was that we know how much of a jerk Phil was even before the loop started. In the original script you just see him being a jerk and justifying his behavior because of the time loop and lack of permanent consequences for anybody, but in movie, it’s clear that he was already a jerk, and the time loop just allowed him to express that more. The other big differences between the original script and the movie were that the script was full of voice over narration from Phil explaining why he did what he did, and his relationship with Rita wasn’t as central to the plot. It wasn’t a traditional romantic comedy, but the movie turned into one.
I love the thought that when he ask a question that he doesn't know yet, he just kills himself and does it over and over till it was flawless.
...You want to see Joffrey from Game of Thrones go through infinite groundhog day? Go check out "Purple Days" by Baurus on Spacebattles. Cute little novel.
Imagine if he does it so often it becomes a reflex. Just as soon as something goes wrong, oops, time to snap my own neck!
Then he exits the groundhog day loop, but he still has the reflex. That would suck.
Haha I thought the same thing!
Joshua Sweetvale shameless 🔌 is shameless
@@toxickgames1786 dude piss off someone recommending a novel, which is not even his own, is not a shameless plug.
At 02:50, "How are you doing this?".
I work for Mark Zuckerberg.
That is GOLD
+SDPRZ 👍
And the cia
S U C C
lol
Uploaded on Feb 2, 2011
nice
Which time?
Every time. All the time.
Im actually watching Feb 2nd. Creepy.
RampantFury925 same holy... recommended to me the 2nd.
Well today is 4th february 2019
“Nancy, she.. works in the dress shop, and *makes noises like a chipmunk when she gets real excited* ” ( _Hey!_ )
this always makes me giggle and I love it
It's true!
Makes you giggle like a chipmunk?
its amusing but at the same time embarrassing for those who do it involuntary. My ex used to neigh very similar to a horse when touched in a certain area (non sexual) and was always bright red after with embarrassment.
@@vio2k5 Exactly, it's a huge asshole move.
I feel fortunate I was lucky enough to see this in a theater. It was packed. The reaction was quite strong. What a great amazing film. It’s not just the comedy, it’s the humanity.
It's too bad that the film destroyed the friendship of Bill Murray and Harold Ramis so that they never talked again until Ramis was on his death bed and the two men finally buried the hatchet.
back when you clapped after a movie...
@@magnusblick6767 People still do. You just have to go to the right theater.
@@NoJusticeNoPeace Wait...what happened between Murray and Ramis? I guess I haven't heard of this.
@@ComedyBros5 They had very different visions for the film to the point that they stopped talking to each other because of the constant fighting. Murray is notoriously difficult to work with on set, with people including Lucy Liu refusing to work with him again. After Groundhog Day, Murray and Ramis were so angry with one another that neither man spoke to the other again until Ramis lay dying and Murray came to see him and make his final peace. It's a large part of why we never got a Ghostbusters 3.
This guy is basically a video-game protagonist in real life.
Like 'Edge of Tomorrow'
Today I learned movies are real life
Hey yeah I never thought of it like that so thank you for this comment!
Groundhog Day is a roguelike where you die over and over again, keeping nothing but memories of the mistakes you made and knowledge of how to overcome them the next time.
@@WeirdVideoGames dude I was about the comment the same thing lol
This is actually a very sad scene. You can see that he really loves her and knows her now so well that he. can feel what she feels but she can't truly share his feelings so he feels so close to her but at the same time so lonely. I'm not usually emotional about something about love in movies, but this scene makes me feel really sad about Phil.
She can feel the love he has for her too which makes it even cooler
Nikolor I’m not reading all that 😂💀
@@infinite8885 TL;DR: That's sad because Phil is lonely here
@Mama Murphy Actually, it's not really true. I do know a lot about a person I love and she knows a lot about me. And that's why this scene is so heartbreaking because I understand how bad it would be to love somebody who doesn't know you well because I have the opposite experience
@walter Mays Don't worry, there is no need to be rude, it's his choice whether to read this or not
this is what real solitude looks like, amazing and so utterly unescapable.
When you max out townspeople relationships in Stardew Valley.
Hahahaha
Lmao
Damn hahahhahahaha
When you get everyone in town to max social link in Persona games.
No... when you max out ever possible relationship in a game many many times... and then start a new game... you know everyone's deepest secrets, but no one, anywhere, has ever known you...
This movie still has my favorite love story of all time. The protagonist tries everything he can to get his crush to "love" _him_ , failing every time because his love for her was ultimately selfish. It isn't until he learns to love everyone around him, to care for those around him, and _be_ a better person that they can love each other.
yeh, it's a movie, you got that right
@@criztu jeez dude. movies have points. that’s the idea, it’s meant to get you thinking or prove a way of thinking to the audience.
@@criztu 🤡🤡🤡🤡
And that was how the curse was broken.
I keep getting the feeling I've seen this before.
H.. H.. How.. How..? Are you g g g god?
David Keenan You ever have deja vu, David?
+PsychokoreUntergrund When somebody asks if you're a god, *you say yes!*
Got Back in the Kitchen
Haven't you asked that question before?
ever get theat feeling of deja vu
"she makes noises like a chipmunk when she gets REAL excited"
SonoftheWay35 sounds like my ex
@Henk de Tank yea, it was nice
@Henk de Tank well that fell flat
Oh gosh! what do you mean???
I'll make some noises with her.
Kanye watches this scene every morning before going onto Twitter
The Weakest Baldwin how does this have no replies
Kenny Gudz holy shit I have 211 likes? Good job you replied to me otherwise I never would have known
👏L👏I👏T👏
Rooble nigga you look like Freddie Murcy
The Weakest Baldwin 😂
"I am an immortal"
"... The special today is blueberry waffles..."
Fucking kills me every time
I can come back if you're not ready.
… I’ll come back 😰
Because you are not immortal
Id kill to be immortal just to have those blueberry waffles for all eternity.
@@Shiirow You'd have to kill someone who isn't immortal tho
This is my all-time favorite movie. I have watched it well over a hundred times and never tire of it. I could watch it a hundred more times and still not be tired of it. It is actually a metaphor of virtually every person's life because we ALL go through trying to do things our way and act arrogant and think that we are masters of our own fate. But that always turns out not to be true. Humbling ourselves after experiencing the inevitable hard knocks of life makes us know what is REALLY important. Kindness, humility, generosity, giving of ourselves, loving one another as we want to be loved, and always striving to be better than we were the day before. The screenwriter for this movie is purely a genius.
[Update]
oops not sure what I was responding to here
I agree that ppl want to be "masters of there own fate" and being HUMBLE is important.
If you feel moved to respond to the question below feel free:
And why do you think these are virtuous right things to do....?
So the film Groundhog day has sort of become your Groundhog day?
Bill Murray did fantastic with this. Comedy is obviously his forte, but for this film he captured the drama very well. By the time of this scene he really had captured the kind of desperation we all feel a times when life just seems to be one day flowing in and out of the other.
Sucks he didn't win, let alone get nominated for an Oscar, not even this film!
So coward-like of the Academy!
@What's Your Worldview Why is it that we must resort to namecalling whenever something happens that we don't like? Sheesh, I'm reading the comments to see people enjoying this scene for what it is. Why must this happen in every video? Even if it was two years ago.
Daniel Ryan it is not his forte. He is much better when
@e d When...?
Thank the director for this. Actors are like mules who want to go one direction and it takes a good director to get them to go where they need to go.
If someone asks if you're a god, you say 'Yes".
Jered,
Not a bad Bill Murray cross reference.
Then when you make a habit of it and someone seriously asks you, you go "Yes. I - I m-m-mean, no!" all shifty-like and they have a moment of "Wait, _are_ you actually a god?!?"
Mr Tuesday "Puny God"
More accurately said, we are all "specks" of God ..
Religion: From The Latin Word "Religare," Meaning: to tie back; to hold back; to bind fast. Binding.
"All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few" ~ Seneca
"Religion is regarded as true by the common people, by the WISE as false, and by the Rulers as useful." ~ Seneca
“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.” ~ Seneca
Currently there are right around 4200 different religions and/or spiritual philosophical understandings on planet earth, 12 of which are considered major world religions. IMO none of them need to be exclusively memorized or vehemently embraced. When taking Yin & Yang opposite energies into account one only needs to mildly recognize how it is that ancient eastern religions that include reincarnation best coincides with yin and yang opposite philosophy.
Realizing that one can measure God's existence.
Earth is a polarized finite material planet within a finite material universe within a INFINITE material and spiritual universe. Earth's entire environment consists of a micro to macro spectrum of extreme to subtle opposites. Examples of Yin and Yang Dualism: Attribute- centrifugal-centripetal-force, Tendency- expansion-contraction, Position- outward-inward, Direction- ascent-descent, Temperature- hot-cold, Weigh- light-heavy, Atomic- electron-proton, Biological- vegetable-animal, Sex- male-female, Structure- space-time, Factor- water-fire, Movement- passive-active, Function- diffusion-fusion, Vibration- shorter wave and higher frequency-longer wave and lower frequency, etc, etc. The opposite of finite is Infinite. All things finite (matter) begin and eventually end (change being the only constant). Infinity has no beginning or ending and for that reason Infinity is God. Since the finite material realm is within Infinity All is specks/fragments/part and parcel of God.
*"ALL within the ALL is ALL we ALL are ... Peace"..*
Breakdown:
*ALL* (finite beginning-ending/changing matter) *within the ALL* (Infinite Beginningless-Endingless/Non-Changing Spirit) *is ALL we ALL are,* therefore you and I are smaller consciousness finite fragments/specks/part and parcel of god, but we are NOT the Infinite Spiritual Realms Super Consciousness Summit/Peak that is Godhead while we exist as finite realm material beings ... *Peace* ..
Now do you realize that you, I, we, are all specks of god.
I CANNOT prove it from me to you, HOWEVER you can prove it to yourself if YOU have the discipline to do so. That's the way the grand "Order of the Infinite Universe" design is set up in arrangement for the *"Imperfect to become Perfect."*
Humans are both material and spiritual beings. More-so with spiritual resonance if ones pineal gland is clean as in *Leviticus 15: "Cleanliness is Next to Godliness"..* THEREFORE clean away the sleepy eye crust from your third eye ajna chakra ... then learn to abandon the ego before you pine away ... Crucify the ego before its far too late .. Prying open the 3rd eye ..
Humanity lives... "fearfully"... "submerged"... within finite matter mostly unable to comprehend Infinity/God... Therefore "We All Live In A ... "Yellow"... "Submarine" ..
*..."Fearful/Yellow"..."Submerged/Submarine"..."Infinity/God"..*
Bhagavad-Gita - Book of India, Siddhartha Gautama,The Buddha - taught primarily in northeastern India, Jesus In India (& Tibet etc.) - The 18 Missing Years, George Ohsawa - Macrobiotic Yin Yang Philosophy Post Atom-Bomb(s) Bombardment 1945, visits India 1953-1955, The Beatles In India circa 1968 - Yellow Submarine released November 13, 1968.
*UA-cam: Amazing documentary The Missing History of Jesus (Fatima Alaina)*
*"A Complete Macrobiotic Yin Yang Philosophic Understanding Combined With Its Practical Dietary Discipline Is Timeless Universal Law. All Other Teachings Are Incomplete"~ Herman Aihara, Michio Kushi & George Ohsawa*
Zen Macrobiotics still you believe in something that really doesnt exist whatsoever, there is no god :) and there is no ying yang, no feng shui, no budda, no jesus.... :) you and your crazy stories are based on crazy stories...in other words, you trying to prove something irrational with irrational quotes, this is a long post of shitness.
“I have been stabbed, shot, poisoned, frozen, hung, electrocuted, and burned”
Sounds like my last relationship
Alex White
Same. Hope you got out!
So underrated
Bing!
Sounds like Vigo the Carpathian: ua-cam.com/video/JMUFUTQxNQw/v-deo.html
Sorry for your loss. She sounds great.
This was one of the first instances where Bill Murray was truly acting dramatically. Not for cheap laughs, or for acerbic sarcasm, but for the purpose to evoke genuine heartfelt emotion. He was always a good actor, it just took him 30 years to realize it himself.
They should release the sequel and just show this one again!
Bruce Moyers lol
XD
It's going to end up disappointing for not being as good as its predecessor
@@violettray2679 exaaactlyyyyy
.... technically, isn't this movie by itself approximately 4,577 movies if each day was a film?
This movie is really close to me. We had a bad snow storm when this movie came out. My family had to be evacuated to the community center in my town. A stranger bought us tickets to go see it since the theater was open next door. It was the first movie I watched in a theater. For 1 hour and 41 minutes my family was together, no yelling no fighting, and no hitting. We laughed we talked about how good it was. It was my favorite childhood memory. Thank you Bill Murray.
That's an awfully heartwarming story, reminds you that there are still nice people out there.
Thank you stranger
Now that's a story.. well written and didn't overstay its welcome in a single paragraph. Your storytelling skills are better than most of modern Hollywood.
Surely thank you stranger...
Plot twist the stranger was Bill Murray
I like to think at least once, he did this whole speech with her and reached in his coat and "fuck i forgot the pen" better try tomorrow..
"And this is Alex..."
"My name is Alan."
"FUCK!"
**Cue to next morning**
@@NarwahlGaming hahaha
And then shot himself in the head right at the table.
agreed dude. 100% correct man
I don’t know, I kinda like to think Rita bought it the first time he genuinely spilled his guts about his situation to her.
The next moment, his repetitive existence was finally cut short when another man claiming to be an immortal barged in brandishing a sword, proclaiming that there could "be only one" before cutting Phil's head off.
And then he wakes up and it's February 2.
@@JJ-qo7th be like, 'huh...'
This deserves more likes
@@Felipe_Oliveir4475 Thank you!
LMAO! I didn't see that coming, lol.
I love how the dish guy just bends down to make the dishes crash rather than actually walking into something he didnt see
Videos from this era are obsessed with showing waiters dropping dishes for some reason I cannot understand. At least it isn't the usual over-the-top slapstick performance.
He was reaching for something below while forgetting about his surroundings in that instant.
@@ThePsh07 It's like one of those people from TV shop ads who lack basic motor skills so they need some specialized product to help them.
Brukernavn I bet you’ve never worked a dishwashing job before
@@Noah_McCurry Apparently, neither did the dishwasher in the movie, lol. Must've been his first day, lol.
once in a while i have to watch this scene.. just because
Psychokore Underground Rap me to
Psychokore Underground Rap ,
It is onecof the best scenes of any movie ever.
Saw 999 likes, clicked like and saw it change to 1k. Best feeling in the world
same here
Bill Murray: " I'm a God, how can you kill a god? What a grand and intoxicating innocence."
*whips out keening, sunder, and wraithguard*
Chris Hope is this how you honour the sixth house and the tribe unmourned?
@@GrandMarshalGarithos I'm taking that shit for myself
Filthy N'Wahs
Lol
This kind of makes me want to watch this movie. EDIT -- Whelp, I rented it for $4, and I got to say, this is a really good movie. I'm surprised. I always thought it'd be boring. I love how he changes over time, and finally becomes a good person. It's almost like a metaphor for reincarnation, living lives stuck in this world, over and over again, and slowly but surely figuring out what we're supposed to do... which is something we knew all along. Love one another, love yourself, and love others _as_ you love yourself.
Easiest wardrobe supervisor job ever.
But the hardest continuity supervisor job.
Bobby Bobby Actually, since almost whatever Phil did on Groundhog Day had no consequences before the final day that ended with Phil in bed with Rita the next morning, it probably was not that hard to follow during storyboarding.
The crew just had to make sure that the boy broke his leg if Phil did not save him, that the homeless man died that night in any case, that nobody but Rita, Larry, and Ned called Phil by his first name if he did not yet introduce himself, etc.
@Andrew Bjork
"the final day that ended with"
dude spoilers
buddie, the movie is from 1993
Hardest laundry supervisor job ever.
"I'm a God. How can you kill a God? What a grand and intoxicating innocence."
Ohhh ohhhh ohhh oh
Shame on you sweet Nerevar
I have a dagger that's pretty 'keen' to put a stop to that kind of thinking. HAH. (I'll see myself out.)
Come with me and look upon the heart……upon the heart. Heart.
You only capitalize god when referring to "God" not simply a god. It's like the President or the Queen. It's filling the role of a proper noun. He claims to be a god, not God.
The idea of how much he's clearly sat down and talked with every single person here to learn everything about them makes me wonder what a groundhog day style visual novel would be like.
Utsuro no Hako to Zero no Maria (aka HakoMari) Excellent Light Novel about something similar. 7 Books worth.
Horrifying!
Thicccccck
@@max90153 literally that.
Great novel
You might enjoy Little Busters. Each replay is canonically the story repeating, sometimes with small changes. It's available on Steam and I strongly recommend it!
The sound of resignation and exhaustion at the end of his speech is heartbreaking.
"I'm A god I'm not THE god... I don't think."
That was very humble of him.
Story of my life.
“Humility... I myself am extraordinarily humble.”
'Zacly!
A hilariously line, perfectly dead-pan delivered. Great movie, wonderful cast.
Know not that you are gods? John 10:35; Psalm 82:6
Very underrated movie, probably my favorite Bill Murry film. The scene when he is trying desperately to save the old homeless guy but cant no matter how he changes the circumstances is heartbreaking.
How is it underrated? It's easily one of the best comedy movies and always ranks high.
@@Liuhuayue In your opinion. Mine is based on box office, as Groundhog Day did not do well in that regard.
@@kfgrip It's partly my opinion but also backed up by a ton of lists if you just Google online what some of the best comedy movies are. Groundhog Day is often there. Just because it didn't make money, doesn't mean it's not a great movie.
@@kfgrip It's wrong to say it didn't do well at the box office. It made back 5 times its budget, and that's before video rentals, which was a huge industry at the time. Most films lose money, and any investment that more than quintuples your investment is a good one! And anyway, how well a movie is "rated" just isn't to do with box office. The Shawshank Redemption, Citizen Kane etc are widely rated as some of the best movies ever made and had underwhelming box office. Their reputation grew over the years. It's like saying that Van Gogh is underrated as a painter because he only sold one painting when he was alive. Groundhog Day is widely rated as one of the best film comedies ever, and its title has even entered the language giving it a cultural influence that most movies can only dream of.
greyztone movies can dream?
Bills greatest accomplishment.
this is a movie everyone can watch a once a year forever and not get tired of it.
Bill should have gotten an Oscar.
I'm partial to Lost In Translation.
I truly think this was one of the greatest movies ever made. I really do. It's just so good. It's a comedy, but it's so much more than that. It's the humanity, the philosophy of reliving the same day over and over again, being so bored with life that he begins to try to end it. It's a masterpiece, truly.
Absolutely.
"When someone asks you if you are a God, you say YES!"
My thoughts
Know not that you are gods? John 10:35; Psalm 82:6
"Alright, this chick is toast!"
LOL you know I never made that connection
@@matt_canon Aim for the flat top!
The part when he can't save the homeless man was a defining moment for Phil Connors. He learns that even with eternity, some things can't be changed.
I don't get how anybody could hate this movie. It's a masterpiece.
Lo Spaghetto I am not THE god.
it's repetitive.
haven't seen it
lol
endless eight is repetitive, this actually shows the difference that one person's actions can make
The movie was filmed in Woodstock, IL. Bill Murray was staying in the Cherry Tree Inn B&B, a real bed and breakfast. There are four rooms available for rent. We stayed in the very room that was shown in the movie. It overlooks the street leading up to the city square. You can walk to the place where the groundhog appeared. The place where Bill stepped off the curb into the water has a marker. You can eat in the diner shown in the movie. Items from the movie are on display in the house, like the clock radio on Bill's nightstand. When we stayed there, I set my iPhone's alarm to play the exact part of "I Got You Babe" that played each morning as an alarm.
“You’re very generous, you’re kind to strangers and children. And when you stand in the snow you look like an angel.”
It doesn’t take a god to say that.
r/wooosh
How the everloving goddamn is this a woooosh
@@skulorao4143 An explanation would be self-explanatory (lol) That's the point. He's not saying it because he's an all-knowing "god"
Davide Mura r/iamverysmart
@@evanhairgelion Gotta tickle that ego man I gotta
Great movie with no oscars or golden globes... :(
who cares about those things, we all know its a amazing movie! thats all that really matters.
Alex Stephens Indeed. The whole thing is a fixed farce anyway.
I agree with Alex Stephens. You know? There are plenty of amazing movies that didn't win any oscars or golden globes like Stand By Me and The Sixth Sense.
Groundhog Day 1993 is AWESOME! In retrospect all kinds of movie "experts" have proclaimed this movie legendary.
Those awards are based largely on ideology & an elitist conception of what is ""art"".
Phil: I’m a god
Catholic school student: *pushes up glasses
Matt Jones Hey I’m an atheist too but I don’t think it’s fair to say that such a huge group of people doesn’t matter at all.
@@mattjones6578 yet not only is the Church cleanest of the evil you project on her out of EVERY group, the Church created everything you take for granted. your hatred is but your vain attempt to ignore, to paraphrase Venerable Fulton Sheen.
Even the Bible talks about there being other gods - the commandment, "Thou shalt have no other gods before Me."
The God versus a god - the capitalization actually does have meaning.
@@mattjones6578
We don't. Not all of us are the kind of Christian boomers you see on Facebook, you know?
@@bobdole4916 pagan "god" is just a word for demon.
I think people don't really appreciate how this is one of the most poignant and spiritual films ever made.
It might be the only film ever made that is both spiritual and secular.
It tops a lot of lists.
Oh, I think most people get that.
Maybe you could have a bit more faith in your fellow-humans?
They really are worthy of it -- most of 'em, anyway.
@@RalinaPerene doubt
@@yourmum69_420 Do you have another to suggest?
Do you ever have Deja Vu?
I don't know, but I can check with the kitchen.
Deja vu
"Have we not met before "
Trivia: the actress who plays Debbie is the voice of Starfire from the Teen Titans cartoon.
She also voices Princess Bubblegum
@Sund Mand
Speak for your self bro. I watched Teen Titans, I would have never guessed from this scene.
And the guy she’s with is a young Michael Shannon
good catch!
*...oh.*
i just realized every way he says he died is the same way Prince Vigo died or was tortured in Ghostbusters II.
Awesome!
OMG, that was his revenge!!
Cannot praise this film highly enough. So many layers. The most thought provoking film ever made. Think I'll watch it again tomorrow.
I feel like there's not many surreal movies like this anymore that isn't also an action or horror movie.
True! I think the simple, albeit incomplete answer, is a gradual invasion into the arts, by what I call "money men". IE the people who are only interested in making money, that in and of itself is the craft. Those people can be a gift in certain industries, for instance banking, insurance etc. However the very same people in the very same positions in for instance the arts, that's like injecting poison into the very reasoning you are in the field to begin with. - but I digress :)
The real reason I commented was to recommend you a newer movie, that also plays around the really surreal. It's called Stranger Than fiction, and although it's definitely not for everyone, I liked it a lot!
Here is the trailer(spoiler warning; it does reveal enough that you get the entire plot):
ua-cam.com/video/0iqZD-oTE7U/v-deo.html&ab_channel=MovieclipsClassicTrailers
@@kimandreskogstrand5004 i have seen it! One of the few films I liked Will Farrel in.
Yeah. Some Jim Carrey films like Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, and a handful of others. Not many on this level...
If you get really bored, the Steven Tobolowsky (he played Ned Ryerson, the insurance guy) did a podcast talking about this movie and he said that originally it was going to be just another big dumb Bill Murray comedy and then they started filming and tried something different. Instead of using a chainsaw to tear up the hotel room to prove the loop, he just broke a pencil. When this worked, they started feverishly rewriting the whole movie as they were filming it to be what it ended up being -- a parable and something so much more.
The Upside is pretty cool and nostalgic in that sense.
I like the sarcastic clapping after the waiter dropped the dishes
Then you would love the reaction when the same think happens in the UK. It is almost a tradition to call for the juggler to be sacked followed by raucous catcalling and applause.
Just put that anywhere pal yeah
People don't do that where you're from?
@@cdevidal what
@@lokei1326 No
I have not just been in a wreck
I’ve been ...
Stabbed
Shot
Poisoned
Frozen
Electrocuted
And burned
-Rasputin
@@thaksjtube OMFG that was great im still laughing
Bill Murray did this before Sterling Archer ever did this bit.
there lived a certain man in russia long ago....
Weak.
I visited the location of this scene in 2017. It was a Mexican restaurant (maybe still is) but my friend and I made a point of sitting exactly where they are in the opening scene here. It was kind of cool. Woodstock Illinois just outside Chicago.
This is simply one of the greatest films ever made
One of the most beautiful scenes in movie history.
:)
yeah such a nice scene with him getting ready to pour out his heart hahaaa
You haven’t seen a lot of movies
I agree. It sends shivers down my neck. No other scene I have ever seen does it. It’s weird, almost like I have been through this in a past life!
The girl has quite a lovely soul. Makes it very warm and convincing.
Fun Fact: Bill Murray resented Harold Ramis so much by the end of the filming of Groundhog Day, that the only way he would allow communication between them was through an interpreter. The Interpreter was def and only communicated through sign language. But Harold was also used to this behavior from Bill. So he actually made sure to film the scenes of this movie in Reverse. The ending was filmed first and they filmed the first half last. Harold knew that Bill would be so fed up with filming that he'd already be the jerk shown at the beginning of the film.
I have been stabbed shocked hung burned electrocuted I'm a god I'm immortal😇
@@raven4k998 Did you even read what the fk you were replying to, bot? 🤣
Being able to game your stars' eccentricities has to be the most underappreciated but vital skill in a director.
I’ve never liked Bill Murray.
To me, he’s the quintessential naked emperor.
That actually makes a lot of sense.
One of the best character arcs in cinematic history. Underneath the gags and lol moments is a very real story of a man discovering its not what the world can give to him, but what he can give to the world...in particular, to a woman he loves.
So lame
I agree about his arc, but I think it's kind of opposite too. He starts out thinking he's God's gift to the world and discovers what the world (albeit the small world of Punxsutawney) has to offer him. What he is able to give to the world in the end, is what he has learned from the world throughout the story.
"Maybe God isn't omnipotent, he's just been around so long he knows everything"
Yeah that's some deep stuff right there. I love this movie.
Omnipotence is without time, an eternity of knowledge where the soul is omniscient.
@@user6008 in the bible, the soul is the devil. the spirit must destroy it.
@@criztu what?
@@crawfish9042 he who seeks to save his soul will lose himself, he who destroys his soul in my name will find himself - mathew 16:25
first man adam was made a living soul, last adam spirit who makes living
through one man death entered the world
through his dying to destroy him who has the power of death, the devil
25 For whoever wants to save their life[a] will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.
"Nancy, she works in the dress shop and makes noises like a chipmunk when she gets really excited." Lmao
...it’s true!
Phil: "Rita"
Nancy: "Nancy!"
Phil: "Whatever"
The music cues for this movie were so perfect. Like that flue or piccolo music that starts when Phil starts really telling Rita about herself. To me, it just really captures his sincerity in his moment of desperation, his feelings for her, and her finally starting to actually believe he's not just using tricks. It really helps move the mood from comical to solemn so effectively, without being overly blunt or overpowering the scene. The movie has many of these moments where the music is just perfect.
Solid point. It is amazing what a difference music (and the direction of it) can make.
I remember when comedic movies were well written enough to make me spontaneously bust out laughing and tear up all in the same 3 minute scene
This is the ultimate portrait of feeling isolated. Not alone. Not solitary. Isolated. Isolated in a way most people should never know. Being completely different and separated, yet having people around you................................
Gozer: Are you a god?
Bill Murray: I am a god
bill murray's hand writing stinks.
He could spend a few day perfecting it...
He wrote it out in 10 seconds to prove that he knows everything and has been locked in 24-hour limbo for who knows how long.
E1craZ4life if I remember correctly it was over 100 years according to Harold Ramis
People don't have to work hard to have good handwriting. Just like it's impossible for you to not be a fucking moron.
He'd make a great doctor.
God, I can't even remember how many times I've seen this movie but there are scenes in it where I always tear up
Just think if they start dating he’s going to be years into the relationship the next day and she’s just going to be playing catch-up for the rest of her life
Lucky man! It’s usually the reverse!
I think they should release a sequel to Groundhog day, but when it gets released... they should just play the original.
I hope you thought of that, clever, its like saying "I'm going to get a full size tattoo of myself" not mine.
@@glennslater56 It's an old joke. Pre social media old, at least.
My favorite movie of all time.
It really is one of the best movies ever.There`s no telling how many people think the same so let`s just start with everyone in punxatawney :o)
same
Mine too!
I never really thought about this but the entire cast did a great job in this film doing the same scenes over and over and good job on not making it boring it's an excellent movie
Holy sh-t! I saw this exact scene at the very same time yesterday!!!
Don't you mean today?
Yes! And the day before and the day before!!! Btw, I KNEW you were going to write that!
@@Nmlll778 i read all these yesterday
Shit*
Hi
Bill Murray deserved an Oscar, if only for this scene.
He's got a much better memory than me. After I'd spent a day with each person in the cafe getting to know them spanning what must've been months, I'd have forgotten even the names of the first half I met.
What a great premise for a movie and sooo well done. I see it every Groundhog Day and don't get tired of it. The ending is so satisfying.
Yep, whenever my girlfriend tells me to put down the bag of doritos, I just tell her I'm a god.
When someone asks you if you’re a god, you say yes.
Winston: "Ray, when someone asks if you're a god you say, YES!"
One of the greatest scenes from one of the best movies, ever. It's 2/2/2018. I'm going to dive into it tonight. Like every year!
SUCH a great movie!
It's one of my favorite movies of all time. I love that concept of repeating the same day over and over again. Always entiruges me when a sci-fi movie or show does it.
Here's one for ya... I was born 2/2/1993 add up 1+9+9+3 = 22.
I don't know if it means anything, and I absolutely hate numerology, but the number 22 has following me my entire life in the most unsettling way.
Life sure is cool
I try to watch my dvd of this movie every groundhog day.
Powerful script and actors. Mind-boggling concept.
"you're very generous. You're kind to strangers and children.... and when you stand in the snow you look like an angel".... all of the things he said before this were legitimately psychic and yet THAT is when she interjected and said "how are you doing this?", not before. Best romantic movie ever made.
Best drama ever made. Best romantic comedy ever made. Best action movie ever made (it's showtime, Phil!). Best comedy ever made. Best film ever made. PERIOD.
Why is it when he started paying her compliments she believed his abilities? Ego much?
Timothy Stratton .... Nonsense but yes a very, very well made movie.
It's funny that despite all those more factual demonstrations that the thing that "convinced" her was appealing to her emotions and ego through romantic compliments, lol. Something something not helping stereotypes about women mumble mumble...
He had been on hundreds of dates with her up till that point. He had the entire day rehearsed up until the final seconds when he had the idea to write it down. He had to spend days worth of time to learn everybody's story.
@@EmptyMan000 I think you meant to say flattery in your explanation of how you missed the entire point of the movie, but no this wasn’t flattery. This was a genuine compliment from the heart, hence her reaction “how are you doing this?”. The ego inflating flattery that you think is happening here came during his attempt to create the perfect day to sleep with her. By this point in the movie, he has killed himself possibly thousands or even millions of times. He’s past flattery. He wants connection
So YES, this heartfelt compliment IS when she started believing in his abilities and I see no problem with it. Noticing details about a day that you’ve been forced to live over and over again is hardly an ability anyways. But love? Now that’s an ability