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Post by Feyrhausen on Mar 9, 2023 6:45:24 GMT -5
Specific question about Man on the Moon. Towards the end after the cancer diagnosis Lynn and a friend are at the house. Andy comes in dressed as Tony and makes some crude remarks, then makes a statement that Andy is dying but he (Tony) is getting stronger. At the end we see Tony taking the stage but Bob is in the audience.
In real life besides Andy and Bob Andys brother was sometimes under the makeup as Tony. But the movie never mentioned this leaving it as just Andy or Bob.
So were they trying to make some weird Andy disappearing into character as Tony and he “died” but Tony lived?
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Post by fw91 on Mar 9, 2023 7:26:55 GMT -5
No, they were just keeping up the the “is he really alive or dead?” narrative. Since Bob wasn’t Tony in the final scene, they wanted to leave it open ended, that you can never certainly be sure, what tricks Andy is up too.
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Post by Sephiroth on Mar 9, 2023 7:31:10 GMT -5
The character Tony Clifton lingered on after Kaufman’s death, portrayed by various others. Even today the occasional Tony Clifton impersonator pops up, kind of like Elvis impersonators. There is also a long standing rumor that Kaufman faked his own death, I suspect that on his death bed he swore family and friends to never confirm or deny it as a final prank on the whole world, the kind of weird joke that was up his alley. The ending of the movie was likely meant to be a nod and wink to that rumor.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Mar 9, 2023 8:57:09 GMT -5
The character Tony Clifton lingered on after Kaufman’s death, portrayed by various others. Even today the occasional Tony Clifton impersonator pops up, kind of like Elvis impersonators. There is also a long standing rumor that Kaufman faked his own death, I suspect that on his death bed he swore family and friends to never confirm or deny it as a final prank on the whole world, the kind of weird joke that was up his alley. The ending of the movie was likely meant to be a nod and wink to that rumor. That’s exactly what the ending was supposed to be. I’m sure fewer people believe it now, mostly because Andy has largely faded into pop culture history, but when that movie came out there were still a lot of people who believed Andy faked his own death and would make his triumphant return in 2004 or 2009 Hell, there was a hoax about 10 years ago of a girl claiming to be his daughter and that he was alive and well.
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