Beetlejuice’s backstory makes sense. Otho says that people who commit suicide become “civil servants in the afterlife”. If you watch the movie, all of the workers in the afterlife offices killed themselves. The receptionist slit her wrists. The flat man threw himself into traffic. Poisoned typists. Juno slit her own throat. There’s a mail clerk hanging from a rope. Etc. Juno says Beetlejuice used to work for her before going “freelance”. That makes Beetlejuice a suicide.
I would speculate that his cause of death changed for the movie too. We see him in a cab drivers hat. I think he got drunk and purposely drove his cab into the water. I think all of the ghosts in the film look like they did when their bodies were found. That’s why he looks mossy and pale. His wasn’t found for a while. The Maitlins also die in water but they look healthy. Their bodies were probably recovered quickly because their accident happens in daylight in a small town.
My friend inexplicably disappeared off my back porch one night we were hanging out. He was only gone about two minutes but when he eventually came back up the porch I asked him how the sand worms were. Without missing a beat he laughed and said he's never been to Saturn and then told me he had just walked to the trash can at the end of our driveway out front to throw something away. I was very impressed he completely understood the reason for which I would ask such a stupidly absurd question.
You either have a driveway the length of a football field, or your friend had something he needed to dispose of very carefully. Or maybe it was just a cover story for something more sinister. He seems to be very ninja no matter what he really did.
The death of the Maitlands was very graphic in the original script. The door slammed on Barbara's arm, and it's said to look quite gnarly. After reading that detail, the line from Barbara "My arm feels cold" makes complete sense.
Minty calling early-Beetlejuice "a nasty, monstrous piece of work" makes me think there was more than a grain of truth in Juno's line, "He does not work well with others." 🙂
he was perfect in the movie we got. not maybe entirely evil, but... just too MUCH. like a 13 year old boy on 4chan, now coming onto youtube comments pretending to be 23 and cracking jokes. those jokes are going to weird everyone out.
Many fans speculate that the barber rambling outside of Maitland's Hardware store is supposedly talking about Beetlejuice when he was alive. "Bozman built that foundation in 1835... his grandson... he had hair down to his shoulders... he says to me 'just trim it a little' ... (angrily) I took a scissor to his head so fast!"
like your Idea about the barber. But it may have been changed because without rewind or multiple viewing, most people in a theater would not remember who the barber was. Very enjoyable video, thanks.
You are right about that scene with BJ and the old barber sitting on the couch in the afterlife waiting room. The only thing that would have happened additionally was that BJ's head exploded at some point. Something they later exchanged for his head getting shrunk by the witch doctor. I unfortunately don't own it any longer, but I once had a booklet about the production of the movie in which this deleted scene was described.
I have to say that was one of my favourites when growing up and now the ghost with the most is coming back this year. Thanks for the upload Minty. You’ll have to do workprint or lost versions of The Mask.
I read a fanfic where Beetlejuice's backstory is explained further. His line about living through the Black Plague turns into him surviving where his family (wife and little girl) do not. They die, and rather than see their bodies tossed into communal burn pits he simply sets their house on fire and burns it down with their bodies inside, then kills himself because he didn't want to live without them.
That scene with Beetlejuice is sitting next to the guy with the shrunken head was in the version I remember watching. As for the barber sitting there I can't recall.
That movie is great. Very unique for that time and we'll done. Thank God they did that changes. If it was a scary movie it would be one in the pile. Now it is one memorable enjoyable movie.
Before I watch the video I'm guessing Minty will talk about the original ending work print of the movie which doesn't have the Beetlejuice head shrinking bit which was added after the movie was finished LOL!🏠👻💀🧟
I love your takes! I have always wondered about the green skinned man and the two small ladies in grey body suits in the Neitherworld/Afterlife waiting room and their possible causes of death?
being raised by ghosts not humans would be a fun ending could have changed the cartoon too . Imagine if they used the idea for Casper. wish the Barber was left in
A few of the things I already knew but learning the ones I didn't was very cool and interesting. Also I really dig that shirt and now have the line stuck in my head. "Lieutenant Dan, ice cream" in Forrest Gump's voice
Do you not think that the ending where they live back in New York, and are being pestered to sell the house, is a set up for Charles and Delia to have an accident and have the, haunt their place in the city, and potentially have Beetlejuice come help them, or even have Lydia come help them?
Is there a bluray release where the deleted scenes are available? I haven't seen a home video release yet that had any real bonus features beyond Burton's commentary.
Even your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate loves Beetlejuice! - But Minty, didn't you already do one of these? - I could have sworn... maybe I've just entered the "Mandela Zone" 😟😅 BTW. Golden Child, Golden Child, Golden Child! 😝😆
Forever one of my favorite movies, sofun to watch.. Also, that's either ai art that imitates real artist Loish style you used (the one with orange irises), or it is a Loish sketch and you forgot crediting her, just saying.
I never knew that 'Saturn' was supposed to be the 'outside the house' dimension, where the sand-worm lives, i always assumed it was supposed to be a part of hell or something, or a bad part of the afterlife.... well! i guess it is, but i didnt realise it was supposed to be a version of Saturn.
The whole movie is a true classic to this very and what we got all those years ago and have had all the years is excellent 👍 it's a good movie to watch around Halloween time that's for sure
He was still trying to "have his way with Lydia" ... right after marrying her. I guess Beetlejuice is all ... no sex before marriage, which goes against type
it angers me so much when i hear stories of movies, that were some of my favorite movies i have seen and the story starts out "this movie almost didn't get made, because some stuffy rich corporate asshole didn't like the script. . ." fuck those hollywood bigshots thinking they can decide what's good and what isn't and i'm just thinking we are lucky that "somebody" decided to take a risk and fund the films anyway
I’m glad we got what we got but I can’t help but feel curious about the original idea. I think it would have made a great true horror movie. Some of the deleted scenes I feel should go back in like Adam & Barbara hanging out the window, Delia reprimanding Lydia for the sheets. But I agree that the alternate ending is not good. Also it is important to note that a few of the ideas from the original script made it into the broadway musical in one form or another.
My Old Barber theory... The guy he was complaining about that had hair "right down to his GD shoulders" may have not liked the trim or dude's Attitude.. Some long-haired punk out in the New England "sticks" in the 80s??- Trouble..
Neetle Guist.. Like polter-Giest... Beetle Juice is a short little hero ;p . On the real though 6:20 It doesn't more strange & unusual than to be able to see spirits simply because your not afraid to die. That would make loads of people able to see them. Pretty strange & unusual if you ask me.
Just think, in some alternate universe, Beetlejuice was a serious horror movie with a winged demon raping a teenager where we got the spooky comedy we all love. Guess our awful timeline had to have something going for it!
There can't be many movies whose title is the bad guy's name. 1) Joker. 2) .. OK, I can't think of another right now. I'll probably think of more as soon as I leave this page. 😕
I would not count out Wes Craven for a Beetlejuice movie. Deadly Friend was a lot better than it had any right to be. Craven just needed producers to get out of his way. He might have turned this into a romantic horror movie with a few splatstick (if that is a word) scenes. Maybe that teenager is boosted to an 18 year old and the marriage actually goes through. A Burton production of a Craven direction of Beetlejuice II would have been fire. Absolute fire.
The picture is from the end of the movie where the guy to his right gets mad at Beetlejuice for switching his ticket with his own so he shrinks Beetlejuice's head..... Now I know it was the shaman but what if they tried other characters or maybe the doctor was their to fix his head but took forever because he was talking to much. It seems most likely it is from the head shrinking bit though.
Messages blah blah blah.....it's a MOVIE folks. If it has themes or dialog you think isn't appropriate, shield your child from it. The ratings are there for a reason, try doing some parenting. Expression should not be limited by a possibility someone will get depressed and do something stupid who shouldn't be watching the flick in the FIRST place.
“If you don’t let me gut out this house and make it my own, I will go insane, and I will TAKE YOU WITH ME!” Best line in a movie ever, and nobody could sell that like Catherine O’Hara.
@@andrewgrove1691 Harry Belafonte is indeed the guy. So intertwined with Beetlejuice that we immediately think of that movie when we hear his music..I wonder if he got to see the film in his lifetime.🤔
I've always thought that Lydia contemplating suicide, and Barbara & Adam talking her out of it was very important to their character growth, and it's very touching.. I'm glad they made that change. I love the ending.
There are a couple subtle hints to the original version in the final cut. One being that when Adam & Barbara first contact Beetlejuice, they have to dig up his coffin. Also, in that same scene Beetlejuice quickly asks Adam "Who do I have to kill?!"
I watched this on VHS when it first came out and I was about 10 years old. I probably rewatched it dozens of times. It was and remains one of my favorite movies of all time.
@@darianstarfrog I watched it so many times that the tape broke. My mom was happy that it was gone, and I wasn't running around in my underwear quoting it anymore. But then my grandpa got me a new copy.
“Ah. Well... I attended Juilliard... I'm a graduate of the Harvard business school. I travel quite extensively. I lived through the Black Plague and had a pretty good time during that. I've seen the EXORCIST ABOUT A HUNDRED AND SIXTY SEVEN TIMES AND IT KEEPS GETTING FUNNIER EVERY TIME I SEE IT!"
I've always wanted an explanation to the Maitlands haunting scenes. When they first try, they are legit scary, but no one can see them. But later in the film they stretch their faces out for Juno, to prove they can scare people (not just perform parlor tricks). Never understood why the two methods were going to have any different results if the living can't see you either way.
its a reference to the peppers ghost effect which is best explained here ua-cam.com/video/BCDcJ6FR4Is/v-deo.htmlsi=9BeEvhz-F3coTbiw I also think at one point they were probably going to just gain the ability to become visible since for a ghost that is very hard to do.
Very good point, so why were they able to see Beetlejuice,!? Practice, practice, practice! Obviously, a spirit with experience can MAKE his, or, her, presence known to even the oblivious!
By this point in the movie the parents Deetz and Otho now WILL see the Maitlands: the book says the living WON’T ghostsas opposed to can’t. After their experience and the Banana Boat Rendition, they are now believers
Who wold've thought that some fella in Australia would one day decide to make these videos and a fella in Colorado would be so thankful and love them so much that even now his sons since they were kids and are now men are watching them. You're generational Minty! Was busy "with life" for quite a while. Imagine my utter joy when I found you again and it happens to be a Beetlejuice video. I ileterally can't wait for the new one to come out, just so I can see YOUR video on the 10 things I didn't know about that either lol. God Bless ya Minty. From all of us. You're a treasure my friend!
I like the finished product for Beetlejuice. So glad there were lots of chances to the movie and we got what we got. Tim Burton was smart to make the movie the way he did.
I think I know why Jane was always wanting to sell the house. Real estate agents make their money on commissions (at least here in the States). So if she lives in a small town, the turnover may be low. And she may not have a huge inventory. So reselling the same house works just as well as sell any other house. Beetlejuice 2 could have been her and Beetlejuice working together to haunt houses. He chases out the current residents. And she sells to the new residents.
I have interpreted the “they were family” line literally as it makes a lot of other stuff make sense. Jane couldn’t just sell the Maitland house just because they suddenly died. But if she were related to them and it was a family home, it’s certainly possible. The Maitlands also tolerant Jane in a way that reads as “annoying family member who is also a real estate agent and wants to sell their house” than it does just “annoying real estate agent,” who you’d tell to GTFOH eventually.
That’s WAY too clever for Beetlejuice 2 I’m sorry but the new movie is terrible: they actually insert potentially interesting concepts but either resolve them way too quickly or seemingly abandon them and not shaping the plot much.
I just received the DVD of "Beetlejuice" from eBay two days ago and it's been the first time in a long while that I have seen the film. I have forgotten how dark and funny it was and how director Tim Burton was tailor-made for this as well as his actors Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder for their respective characters. I'm hoping that the sequel will be just as imaganitive as its predecessor. 😎👍
Beetlejuice’s backstory makes sense. Otho says that people who commit suicide become “civil servants in the afterlife”. If you watch the movie, all of the workers in the afterlife offices killed themselves. The receptionist slit her wrists. The flat man threw himself into traffic. Poisoned typists. Juno slit her own throat. There’s a mail clerk hanging from a rope. Etc.
Juno says Beetlejuice used to work for her before going “freelance”. That makes Beetlejuice a suicide.
I would speculate that his cause of death changed for the movie too. We see him in a cab drivers hat. I think he got drunk and purposely drove his cab into the water. I think all of the ghosts in the film look like they did when their bodies were found. That’s why he looks mossy and pale. His wasn’t found for a while. The Maitlins also die in water but they look healthy. Their bodies were probably recovered quickly because their accident happens in daylight in a small town.
There football players though?
Now i only saw it regularly when it came out as a kid, the suicide/civil servant thing TOTALLY went over my hear. Wow...
Yep
@@CannibalCowboy51 The football players were not civil servants though. They call Juno coach but that doesn't mean they work for her.
My friend inexplicably disappeared off my back porch one night we were hanging out. He was only gone about two minutes but when he eventually came back up the porch I asked him how the sand worms were. Without missing a beat he laughed and said he's never been to Saturn and then told me he had just walked to the trash can at the end of our driveway out front to throw something away. I was very impressed he completely understood the reason for which I would ask such a stupidly absurd question.
You either have a driveway the length of a football field, or your friend had something he needed to dispose of very carefully. Or maybe it was just a cover story for something more sinister. He seems to be very ninja no matter what he really did.
I'm so glad we got the movie we did.
Now that's a proper friend!
The death of the Maitlands was very graphic in the original script. The door slammed on Barbara's arm, and it's said to look quite gnarly.
After reading that detail, the line from Barbara "My arm feels cold" makes complete sense.
Even the dog looked evil making that look!
"there was much wailing and gnashing of teeths"
biblical!@@rgerber
That dog is the most evil character in the movie
It's funny to think Michael Keaton basically gave an excellent Joker-like figure and Batman back to back.
& then as a villain in the Robocop remake & as Vulture in Spiderman.
@@DanielAppleton-lr9eq whatchoo talkin bout willis, there was never a robocop remake
@@zimriel robocop 2014 is a remake
@@rab46290 you didn't get the joke
it was a failure at every level
@@zimriel guess not. Oh well, i will have to live forever ignorant of this pun.
Minty calling early-Beetlejuice "a nasty, monstrous piece of work" makes me think there was more than a grain of truth in Juno's line, "He does not work well with others." 🙂
he was perfect in the movie we got. not maybe entirely evil, but... just too MUCH. like a 13 year old boy on 4chan, now coming onto youtube comments pretending to be 23 and cracking jokes. those jokes are going to weird everyone out.
Many fans speculate that the barber rambling outside of Maitland's Hardware store is supposedly talking about Beetlejuice when he was alive.
"Bozman built that foundation in 1835... his grandson... he had hair down to his shoulders... he says to me 'just trim it a little' ... (angrily) I took a scissor to his head so fast!"
Here in the US real estate agents get huge commissions for selling houses. She’s money hungry.
like your Idea about the barber. But it may have been changed because without rewind or multiple viewing, most people in a theater would not remember who the barber was. Very enjoyable video, thanks.
You are right about that scene with BJ and the old barber sitting on the couch in the afterlife waiting room. The only thing that would have happened additionally was that BJ's head exploded at some point. Something they later exchanged for his head getting shrunk by the witch doctor.
I unfortunately don't own it any longer, but I once had a booklet about the production of the movie in which this deleted scene was described.
I kind of wish there was an original version that was straight up horror. The original script. Two different versions.
Well done Minty!!
I always have a hard time recognizing Alec Baldwin as Adam. His appearance has changed a lot in the last 35 years.
😂I know and now he's in all orange
The barber talked himself to death, didn't notice, and kept talking.
I have to say that was one of my favourites when growing up and now the ghost with the most is coming back this year. Thanks for the upload Minty. You’ll have to do workprint or lost versions of The Mask.
I read a fanfic where Beetlejuice's backstory is explained further. His line about living through the Black Plague turns into him surviving where his family (wife and little girl) do not. They die, and rather than see their bodies tossed into communal burn pits he simply sets their house on fire and burns it down with their bodies inside, then kills himself because he didn't want to live without them.
That scene with Beetlejuice is sitting next to the guy with the shrunken head was in the version I remember watching. As for the barber sitting there I can't recall.
The photo of the barber is the end credit scene where the voodoo priest shrinks his head I think
That version of Beetlejuice is more like Freddy Krueger ❤
Hoping beetlejuice 2 will be just as good, and i am glad jeff jones is not involved.
I love Beetlejuice as is. Tim was a genius for how he did it
I can’t wait for the new Beetlejuice with Jenna Ortega as Lydia’s daughter! I hope it doesn’t disappoint!!
I think heathers also starring winona ryder was filmed a little before this, it also dealt with the topic of teenage suicide.
You have the best commentating of beloved movies that I have seen in a long while. Keep up the good work.
Jane's future is as an HOA president and her head in everyone's business.
Universal rejected but funny how they used Beetlejuice and the Universal Monster in musical show.
I absolutely love the videos on this channel Thank you Minty 🏆
That movie is great.
Very unique for that time and we'll done.
Thank God they did that changes.
If it was a scary movie it would be one in the pile.
Now it is one memorable enjoyable movie.
If you get a chance, listen to the whole soundtrack. Some of Danny Elfman's best.
You should make a video on " THE JERK " with Steve Martin.
We used to rent this repeatedly back when we also had to rent a fancy VCR that came in its own suitcase lol
Before I watch the video I'm guessing Minty will talk about the original ending work print of the movie which doesn't have the Beetlejuice head shrinking bit which was added after the movie was finished LOL!🏠👻💀🧟
I cant wait to see the sequel
I love your takes! I have always wondered about the green skinned man and the two small ladies in grey body suits in the Neitherworld/Afterlife waiting room and their possible causes of death?
I'm not sure if I told you, but you should make a video on " The Jerk"
"THE GOLDEN CHILD" CLIPS!!!! i was like huh?!?!
Its crazy to realise the movie i watched, easily over 100 times as kid, could have has been completely different.. bananas!
being raised by ghosts not humans would be a fun ending could have changed the cartoon too . Imagine if they used the idea for Casper.
wish the Barber was left in
A few of the things I already knew but learning the ones I didn't was very cool and interesting. Also I really dig that shirt and now have the line stuck in my head. "Lieutenant Dan, ice cream" in Forrest Gump's voice
I would greatly appreciate it if they did a remake that is a blend between old and new: Kathy, Lydia’s death, perverted demon
Beetlejuice and Juno
Do you not think that the ending where they live back in New York, and are being pestered to sell the house, is a set up for Charles and Delia to have an accident and have the, haunt their place in the city, and potentially have Beetlejuice come help them, or even have Lydia come help them?
Jane is after that commission
I love this movie. Can't wait for part 2 ! xx
They probably thought no one would remember the barber by the end so they cut it
I would have loved to see the makeup Ve Neil would have done if it ended up in the original form. She did amazing on the final version.
What we got was perfect, a movie for the young and old and will live on for generations!🙂🎃👻
I could see the surfing competition being done in the animated series back in the day...
Is there a bluray release where the deleted scenes are available? I haven't seen a home video release yet that had any real bonus features beyond Burton's commentary.
Nice theory at the end, we share similar thinking patterns
i feel like i’ve seen that sheet scene during a TV edit showing of the film.
nice change of background minty and production value~keep it up
So nobody gonna mention how awesome Mintys shirt is??
surprise beelejuice 2 is coming wow and did it in the right time this video
Keaton was great as Beetlejuice. I would have loved for Jim Carrey to have done the movie though.
Even your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate loves Beetlejuice!
- But Minty, didn't you already do one of these? - I could have sworn... maybe I've just entered the "Mandela Zone" 😟😅
BTW. Golden Child, Golden Child, Golden Child! 😝😆
Love your content and love your tee shirt!
Forever one of my favorite movies, sofun to watch..
Also, that's either ai art that imitates real artist Loish style you used (the one with orange irises), or it is a Loish sketch and you forgot crediting her, just saying.
great content as always minty, thanks pal
Now you need to do a ten things about Hot to Trot lol
I never knew that 'Saturn' was supposed to be the 'outside the house' dimension, where the sand-worm lives, i always assumed it was supposed to be a part of hell or something, or a bad part of the afterlife.... well! i guess it is, but i didnt realise it was supposed to be a version of Saturn.
What about that scene where Lydia finds those inappropriate books in her dad's office?
🤣
He liked them young. Dude is a convicted pedo
That's an interesting look.
The whole movie is a true classic to this very and what we got all those years ago and have had all the years is excellent 👍 it's a good movie to watch around Halloween time that's for sure
Anyone else notice in the still shot with the barber he has wolfman hands?
He was still trying to "have his way with Lydia" ... right after marrying her.
I guess Beetlejuice is all ... no sex before marriage, which goes against type
Just wanna say, i like your quote T-shirt what you're wearing Mr. Minty. Leutenant Dan, ice cream.... from Forrest Gump😁😉👍🏽
it angers me so much when i hear stories of movies, that were some of my favorite movies i have seen and the story starts out "this movie almost didn't get made, because some stuffy rich corporate asshole didn't like the script. . ."
fuck those hollywood bigshots thinking they can decide what's good and what isn't and i'm just thinking we are lucky that "somebody" decided to take a risk and fund the films anyway
I’m glad we got what we got but I can’t help but feel curious about the original idea. I think it would have made a great true horror movie. Some of the deleted scenes I feel should go back in like Adam & Barbara hanging out the window, Delia reprimanding Lydia for the sheets. But I agree that the alternate ending is not good.
Also it is important to note that a few of the ideas from the original script made it into the broadway musical in one form or another.
My Old Barber theory...
The guy he was complaining about that had hair "right down to his GD shoulders" may have not liked the trim or dude's Attitude.. Some long-haired punk out in the New England "sticks" in the 80s??- Trouble..
Neetle Guist.. Like polter-Giest... Beetle Juice is a short little hero ;p . On the real though 6:20 It doesn't more strange & unusual than to be able to see spirits simply because your not afraid to die. That would make loads of people able to see them. Pretty strange & unusual if you ask me.
Great video Minty
Just think, in some alternate universe, Beetlejuice was a serious horror movie with a winged demon raping a teenager where we got the spooky comedy we all love. Guess our awful timeline had to have something going for it!
O.K, I'm done. I just wanted to leave 5 comments on the video. Enjoy your day Minty.
Hey, you know what's be cool? If he did an episode on Steve Martin's "The Jerk"
Do you have a list of the movies you've already covered so you don't accidentally do the same one twice?
Yea but that was 10 things you didnt know, this is explicitly exploring the Lost versions of Beetlejuice
@@MintyComedicArts Yea, I just wasn't sure because you do so many videos.
I didn't know about Wes Craven being a possible director. Now that would've been interesting, I don't really like Beetlejuice 😊💜🐾👍
There can't be many movies whose title is the bad guy's name.
1) Joker.
2) ..
OK, I can't think of another right now. I'll probably think of more as soon as I leave this page. 😕
I would not count out Wes Craven for a Beetlejuice movie. Deadly Friend was a lot better than it had any right to be. Craven just needed producers to get out of his way.
He might have turned this into a romantic horror movie with a few splatstick (if that is a word) scenes. Maybe that teenager is boosted to an 18 year old and the marriage actually goes through.
A Burton production of a Craven direction of Beetlejuice II would have been fire. Absolute fire.
Interesting video
#11 the soundtrack is better than the movie
I had a huge crush on Ryder when this movie came out.
The picture is from the end of the movie where the guy to his right gets mad at Beetlejuice for switching his ticket with his own so he shrinks Beetlejuice's head..... Now I know it was the shaman but what if they tried other characters or maybe the doctor was their to fix his head but took forever because he was talking to much. It seems most likely it is from the head shrinking bit though.
@Minty Comedic Arts can you drop me the work print?
The dad in Beetlejuice ended up going to prison
cant wait for the sequel
Messages blah blah blah.....it's a MOVIE folks. If it has themes or dialog you think isn't appropriate, shield your child from it. The ratings are there for a reason, try doing some parenting. Expression should not be limited by a possibility someone will get depressed and do something stupid who shouldn't be watching the flick in the FIRST place.
If Alec Baldwin is involved - it's a non-starter. I can't bring myself to watch anything that murderer is in,
Now I need to see the horror version of it.
“If you don’t let me gut out this house and make it my own, I will go insane, and I will TAKE YOU WITH ME!” Best line in a movie ever, and nobody could sell that like Catherine O’Hara.
The response was classic-the look and "ok..." I use often
She was Kevin Mccalister's mom in home alone .: KEVIN !!
Catherine O, hara is the BEST, I've loved her since I saw her on SCTV, waaaaaaaaaay back when! She'd have been GREAT on Saturday Night Live!
Perhaps the house could use a little remodeling but let's just leave this room alone okay
69 likes... hehehe seriously, her delivery and face after that was absolute gold. and basically every other line... this is my art, it is dangerous.
The music of Harry Belafonte really added a nice flavor to Beetlejuice. It is part of what makes the film charming.
It does work well. Imagine trying to convince people that this movie you're making needs 1950's Calypso music.
What are you talking about ?!?!
I sang his song I wanna go home for so many years. And never knew who sang it
@@andrewgrove1691 Harry Belafonte is indeed the guy. So intertwined with Beetlejuice that we immediately think of that movie when we hear his music..I wonder if he got to see the film in his lifetime.🤔
100% right. The music choice was perfect.
Hell yeah! This movie is the only reason i have an autographed copy of a Belafonte book 😅
I've always thought that Lydia contemplating suicide, and Barbara & Adam talking her out of it was very important to their character growth, and it's very touching.. I'm glad they made that change. I love the ending.
They just didn't want her to end up as a civil servant in the afterlife 😅
@@RoamingGhost Who wants to be a phantom paper - pusher ?
Beetle juice also did a doubletake about it esp after calling death creeepy
So the Home Alone mom always leaves her kids home alone. Either with criminals or ghosts.
Just proves Catherine O'Hara should never have kids
That barber was hilarious. It would make sense in that movie if he talked for eternity 😄
Sometimes I ramble to myself ... 'Just.... just trim it a little'. Only my gf really knows what I am talking about.
There are a couple subtle hints to the original version in the final cut. One being that when Adam & Barbara first contact Beetlejuice, they have to dig up his coffin. Also, in that same scene Beetlejuice quickly asks Adam "Who do I have to kill?!"
I'm still in love with Gina Davis.
Geena*
"G"nah
I’ve had a crush on her since I was like 7 years old. She’s so gorgeous… 😍
I watched this on VHS when it first came out and I was about 10 years old. I probably rewatched it dozens of times. It was and remains one of my favorite movies of all time.
yeah Army of Darkness is another one where the producers forced changes upon the script which made it camp-classic and not just an annoying gorefest
Me too, me and my sisters, we would rewind it straight after and start again, over and over..glued everytime.
@@darianstarfrog I watched it so many times that the tape broke. My mom was happy that it was gone, and I wasn't running around in my underwear quoting it anymore. But then my grandpa got me a new copy.
"This thing reads like stereo instructions."
Some people learn better by actually DOING a thing, myself included! Maybe the Maitlands were the same way!?
“Ah. Well... I attended Juilliard... I'm a graduate of the Harvard business school. I travel quite extensively. I lived through the Black Plague and had a pretty good time during that. I've seen the EXORCIST ABOUT A HUNDRED AND SIXTY SEVEN TIMES AND IT KEEPS GETTING FUNNIER EVERY TIME I SEE IT!"
“NOT TO MENTION THE FACT THAT YER TALKIN’ TO A DEAD GUY…NOW WHAT TO DO YOU THINK?!”
I'm glad they kept the Black Plague reference in the new film!
Despite the fact that they ignored every other key rule of this universe
I've always wanted an explanation to the Maitlands haunting scenes. When they first try, they are legit scary, but no one can see them. But later in the film they stretch their faces out for Juno, to prove they can scare people (not just perform parlor tricks). Never understood why the two methods were going to have any different results if the living can't see you either way.
Excellent point. I never thought about that.
its a reference to the peppers ghost effect which is best explained here ua-cam.com/video/BCDcJ6FR4Is/v-deo.htmlsi=9BeEvhz-F3coTbiw I also think at one point they were probably going to just gain the ability to become visible since for a ghost that is very hard to do.
Very good point, so why were they able to see Beetlejuice,!? Practice, practice, practice! Obviously, a spirit with experience can MAKE his, or, her, presence known to even the oblivious!
By this point in the movie the parents Deetz and Otho now WILL see the Maitlands: the book says the living WON’T ghostsas opposed to can’t.
After their experience and the Banana Boat Rendition, they are now believers
Exactly. That bugged me even as a kid. Makes no sense.
Who wold've thought that some fella in Australia would one day decide to make these videos and a fella in Colorado would be so thankful and love them so much that even now his sons since they were kids and are now men are watching them. You're generational Minty! Was busy "with life" for quite a while. Imagine my utter joy when I found you again and it happens to be a Beetlejuice video. I ileterally can't wait for the new one to come out, just so I can see YOUR video on the 10 things I didn't know about that either lol. God Bless ya Minty. From all of us. You're a treasure my friend!
And a guy in Scotland would reply. 🙌
Hey, from New Zealand! 😂
Very cool -Cali
I like the finished product for Beetlejuice. So glad there were lots of chances to the movie and
we got what we got. Tim Burton was smart to make the movie the way he did.
I think I know why Jane was always wanting to sell the house. Real estate agents make their money on commissions (at least here in the States). So if she lives in a small town, the turnover may be low. And she may not have a huge inventory. So reselling the same house works just as well as sell any other house.
Beetlejuice 2 could have been her and Beetlejuice working together to haunt houses. He chases out the current residents. And she sells to the new residents.
I have interpreted the “they were family” line literally as it makes a lot of other stuff make sense. Jane couldn’t just sell the Maitland house just because they suddenly died. But if she were related to them and it was a family home, it’s certainly possible. The Maitlands also tolerant Jane in a way that reads as “annoying family member who is also a real estate agent and wants to sell their house” than it does just “annoying real estate agent,” who you’d tell to GTFOH eventually.
That’s WAY too clever for Beetlejuice 2
I’m sorry but the new movie is terrible: they actually insert potentially interesting concepts but either resolve them way too quickly or seemingly abandon them and not shaping the plot much.
I just received the DVD of "Beetlejuice" from eBay two days ago and it's been the first time in a long while that I have seen the film. I have forgotten how dark and funny it was and how director Tim Burton was tailor-made for this as well as his actors Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder for their respective characters. I'm hoping that the sequel will be just as imaganitive as its predecessor. 😎👍
Enjoy that 480 SD goodness.