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@hornacek – Wow, that video was dramatic.
@Evan Berry:
As a Canadian, I get most of my Canadian history from Heritage Minutes, which are a series of government funded short videos (most are 30-60 seconds) about Canadian historical moments of significance. These are still being made today. The one about the Halifax Explosion is one of the most famous ones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw-FbwmzPKo
@hornacek — Thank you for sharing that article. I’ve not seen Oppenheimer, and, at the risk of sounding uncultured or ignorant, I honestly knew nothing about the Halifax Explosion. If I learned about it in history class, I’d since forgotten.
@Evan Berry:
Back in 1984, it was rare.
Now it’s hip and cool to mention Canada. I remember at the end of World War Z they said that they took refuge in a safe zone in Nova Scotia, Canada. And in Oppenheimer he mentioned The Halifax Explosion as the largest man-made explosion at the time as proof of what they could do with a bomb.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion
@hornacek — I was going to say that I wondered if the scene was improvised.
I thought that may have been the cause of the excitement, but I’m surprised that Canada is mentioned that rarely in movies. Now I feel like it’s going to bother me until I can think of some other movies where Canada (or Nova Scotia) is mentioned, not including the South Park movie, Strange Brew, or Trailer Park Boys.
Ummm…
@Evan Berry:
According to IMDB Trivia, “When Louis Tully mingles with his party guests (commenting on the price of the salmon, and so on), the scene is one continuous shot, and almost entirely improvised.” So I bet Moranis came up with the smoked salmon being from Nova Scotia.
My point about the huge reaction in my theater to the smoke salmon being from Nova Scotia was that for Canadians at the time it was rare to hear Canada mentioned in a major motion picture, let alone our actual province.
@hornacek – I wonder if the fact that Rick Moranis is from Toronto has anything to do with that line being in the movie. Maybe not. It’s funny to me that that line could garner such a reaction, though — I don’t think that line raised an eyebrow here in the United States. I remember the library ghost getting a huge reaction, and people talking about it long afterwards. I still haven’t seen Frozen Empire, though I’d very much like to.
What amazes me is that I can remember seeing Ghostbusters in the theatre, but I don’t remember later seeing Back to the Future, my favorite movie, though I’m sure I did, because I bought the soundtrack on audio tape. I guess I must have liked it, but that it really didn’t awe me until a few years later.
I do remember that another 1984 movie, The Karate Kid, had a Spider-man reference. So did part III in 1989.
I also saw Ghostbusters in the theater, but I missed most of the dialogue of the last third of the movie. The crowd was still cheering from when Louis was throwing his party and he mentioned that the smoked salmon was from Nova Scotia, Canada.
Whenever I mention seeing GB in a theater it always reminds me of this joke from Community: https://www.reddit.com/r/community/comments/14wwx2x/s1e7_had_the_writing_team_not_yet_decided_to_make/
@hornacek — I think that’s a reasonable assumption to make. When I was little (Ghostbusters came out when I was five, and I remember seeing it in the theatre), I thought maybe it was a brand that I just wasn’t aware of, and something akin to the Pillsbury Doughboy or the Michelin man.
Incidentally, I think the only reference to Stay-Puft in the movie until the appearance of the marshmallow man himself is the marshmallows on the counter when Dana’s eggs cook themselves. I guess it’s easy to miss that detail and thus have no context for the marshmallow man.
What did you do, Ray?!
@Evan Berry:
For many years I assumed that Stay Puft was a real marshmallow brand, and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man was their mascot that had just never become known in Canada but everyone else knew him. Because there was such a huge reaction when he appears in the film that I assumed everyone else recognized him.
I do appreciate the “Stay Puff” [sic] marshmallows in the grocery cart.
@hornacek – Maybe F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Grape Gatsby?
Sorry.
“Fitzgerald Grapes”
That has to be a reference to someone, right?