Talk:Punch-Drunk Love

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What Sandler is really like
It is said that Barry Eagan is actually a more extreme version of what Adam Sandler is in real life. If you think to other Sandler films, he sometimes goes crazy for a short busy (Think in weadding singer "while I have the microphone YOU WILL LISTEN TO EVERY GODDAMN WORD I'VE GOT TO SAY), or happy gilmm ore going crazy on people when he gets annoyed. Maybe somone can confirm this and I can add it? Kicken18 21:23, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Trivia entry
"During the scene where Barry is at the supermarket looking for the cheapest Healthy Choice food item, he is being followed by an out-of-focus character in a red outfit. It's Emily Watson's character, before they've been introduced." I could have sworn I read an interview somewhere with the director who stated for certain that the out-of-focus character was NOT Emily Watson's character. Can't for the life of me remember where, so I went to IMDB and noticed that the trivia section there is, in some places, verbatim to the trivia section here, and IMDB is not particularly well-known for constantly reliable facts. Can anyone confirm that the above trivia entry is correct? Sidasta 12:04, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Fancruft Galore!
This article reads as if someone took down every mildly interesting thing said on the director's commentary:

The scene in which Egan first goes through the supermarket is composed as an homage to Andreas Gursky's photograph "99 cent". Anderson originally wanted John C. Reilly to be cast as one of the four blond brothers. Punch-Drunk Love is actor Bill Nighy's favorite film.

Okay, I took all those examples from the Trivia section, but the bit about fixing the harmonium with duct tape to go on tour with Aimee Mann isn't really notable either.

--63.25.25.172 11:41, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Curious...
What mental disorder does the character have? (that's what I came to the article wondering, anyway) -75.165.209.121 16:52, 11 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I'm surprised that it's not mentioned in the article too. It's been a really long time since I saw the film last, but I seem to remember thinking it most resembled Asperger's Syndrome at the time.  Maybe someone can find an interview or something to support this? WildlifeAnalysis 18:03, 9 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Seems like Avoidant personality disorder. Robixsmash (talk) 02:49, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

oh, it's definitely Aspergers. If Anderson didn't mean the character to be Aspergan then he modelled him on a real life person who happened to have Aspergers. Guaranteed —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.156.246.68 (talk) 21:27, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

Connections to Popeye
I'm surprised nobody has discussed the film's obvious connections to the story of the animated character Popeye. I read about this in an interview with Anderson once but I don't recall where. It's mentioned in the soundtrack section but it would be worth pointing out that song was not in there by accident. Any thoughts?

Article Intro Anyone?
Shouldn't this entry be formatted into standard Wiki format for a film article? This article doesn't even have an intro/summary... It just goes straight into the plot... Someone forget something? Stevenmitchell (talk) 03:43, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
 * It was vandalism and I've reverted it. An article like this will almost always have a lead section and infobox, so if it doesn't, it usually means someone recently removed it. Next time you see something that isn't quite right, check the history for vandalism. - kollision (talk) 04:37, 8 January 2010 (UTC)