2006-12-13 10:17:15 · 9 answers · asked by fernando v 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
You know, I've always wondered this myself.
I adore the entire movie, but this particular scene is my favorite.
I just love how, as the coyotes walk across the road, the beginning of "Shadow on the Sun" plays. It gave me the chills the first time I saw it.
Perhaps the coyotes symbolize both (Fox's and Cruise's) characters. Each in their own minds believe they're so totally different from each other, when in reality, they're both the same. They are both wandering a dark, lonely stretch of highway trying to figure out what to do, where to go, but most of all...how to survive. Perhaps they're both questioning the life they're living and wondering if maybe, just maybe there might be something more to it.
Or maybe they just realize that witnessing a coyote crossing before you is an old wives tale of bad luck.
That's my lame analysis.
If nothing else, maybe you got a laugh out of it. :]
Happy Holidays! ♥
2006-12-13 11:03:16 · answer #1 · answered by sorrowful_seranade 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
They didn't want to run over them, or maybe it was contrasting Cruise's earlier statements that LA was a impersonal metropolis lacking soul. They might have been saying that LA was still a primitive desert that only the strong and clever surive. Just like the coyote.
Edit. Beetlejuice coyotes aren't really killers, per se, they are more scavenger than anything. While they wil kill chickens, dogs and cats they are not known to be particularly bloodthirsty as Cruise was in that movie.
2006-12-13 18:22:23 · answer #2 · answered by Frank R 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
This is the work of Micheal Mann (the director) at his best.It is a way of personifying an object to make the audience feel a specific emotion such as the scene wich it takes place.Martan Scorsecse deos this a lot in his movies
2006-12-13 18:29:22 · answer #3 · answered by mr.fahrenheit 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Maybe it was just one of those weird dashes of the mundane that makes a movie with such an outlandish plot believable...
No allegorical intent, just 'feel'.
2006-12-13 18:27:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
No, but my problem with that movie is that Cruise, a trained contract killer, is killed in the end by Fox, a loser taxi-driver who looks like he has never held a gun before. What a terrible ending.
2006-12-13 18:20:24 · answer #5 · answered by SO 2 · 0⤊ 4⤋
I thought it was symbolic..coyotes are unconscienable killers, as was Cruise, so it was showing respect for his "own kind" so to speak.....
2006-12-13 18:25:24 · answer #6 · answered by beetlejuice49423 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I don't know maybe they were taking the time out to think about their lives. They were looking so sad and confused.
2006-12-13 18:20:55 · answer #7 · answered by taffy2513 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
does anyone know why cruise does anything he doesnt even know
2006-12-13 18:29:02 · answer #8 · answered by sunshine 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
great movie....nobody's perfect !
2006-12-13 18:27:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋