Franks Trail of Easter Eggs
From Barbelith
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Then, take a look at some specific instances where Frank *himself* pops up unexpectedly in the movie.....
sean mcglinchey, charlie's friend:
'Frank' appears on the board as an example during cunningham's presentation.
E. Randy Dupre:
Edward Darko, in the hotel room, mentions "Frank Feedler, from high school. He died on his way to the prom." Frank, of course, dies on his way back to the party.
Frank is mentioned by Elisabeth - she's walking round the house during the party and asks a couple of people if they've seen him.
There's a plush rabbit toy behind Donnie the first time he sees the space/time spears.
There's something (a pumpkin? Certainly doesn't look like one) on the kitchen top between Donnie and Elisabeth in the scene where she tells him that she's been accepted to Harvard that's the spitting image of bunnyFrank's face.
Frank hasn't drawn the images of bunnyFrank immediately on the return to the Primary Universe. A couple of people seem to have got this a bit confused. He's already made the mask; these are design sketches done some time before any of the events in the film. The only reason we're shown them is to remind us who the guy is. He may have had some glimpse into the tangent future, but, if so, that's happened out of the confines of the film.
Flyboy:
Near the start of the movie, Donnie's mother is reading Stephen King's It: the guy in the passenger seat of Frank's car is dressed as a clown, just like the monster in said novel...
grant:
Doesn't that killer clown lurk in the sewers? If so, then the C.H.U.D. discussion at The Double Feature Scene is more significant....
bjacques:
I finally got the DVD; its resolution is *much* better than the download, and the Madworld music video is one of the extras. So this time I saw the aforementioned Frank O' Lantern in the kitchen.
In the last therapy session, under hypnosis, Donnie sees Frank in place of the portrait above the fireplace (whose picture was that anyway?). Just before snapping Donnie out of it, the therapist tells him that when the universe collapses, there will be nothing left--just him. Both universes gone, and him stranded, would be more terrifying than "merely" dying alone. So God, or the Manipulated Dead and Living, act on both his fear of being (let alone dying) alone and his love for Gretchen (and for everyone else, in varying degrees) to get him to do the right thing. He says to the gym teacher that emotions are not reducible to fear and love, but they are in his case.
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