Highly unlikely, as this seems to be a retcon, ignoring everything that happened in the first 2 movies.
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Letâs not forget his appearance on 30 Rock:
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Without my looking to see if Burtonâs on record about that, this is more than likely just a consequence of the pan-and-scan (SD) era rather than something he intended.
Movies shot on film are/were often shot on a standard (eg 4:3) frame, with the expectation that anything out of the intended widescreen frame would be matted out. The final version should look like the above cropped gif.
During the VHS/DVD era, movie studios had to choose what to do to to make âfullscreenâ movies (since some people felt âcheatedâ by the black bars on âwidescreenâ releases). Sometimes, they would pan-and-scan across the widescreen final. Other times, if possible, they would just remove the widescreen matte and use the full image.
What youâre seeing here is the latter. (Iâm partly judging this on the waviness of the gif - it looks like itâs VHS-sourced.) Removing the matte would mean that objects not intended to be seen were then visible. More often that not, boom mics and lighting equipment. Here, the reveal of the joke.
Itâs funny on its own, but I doubt Burton had any intention of that being seen. But Iâm sure there are a lot of folks who grew up seeing this movie on cable that saw it this way, and assume it was supposed to be seen.
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Wasnât he found guilty of masturbation? I dunno if we should be promoting movies by masturbators.
Also, wasnât that Tyler Durden in the beginning? âHow much can you know about yourself if youâve never been in a fight?â
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Holy crap, he was in Mork and Mindy. Maybe he was cursed to walk the Earth forever.
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hmmâŚ
this used to come on cable a lot when I lived with my grandparents, but I never saw this scene. should i rewatch it? it seemed pretty bad.
oph! how could I have forgotten!
hmm⌠itâs possible. I remembered this similar shot that I thought would back me up but it seems to re-inforce your point.
I think it works either way since itâs comedy, itâs Pee Wee. The comments section is divided, but you raise a good point. dammit, I thought it was a joke! In my head, it will always be. in my heeeeeaaaad!
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If anything ever happens to Pee-Wee, Atticus Shaffer can take over.
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not a retcon â i read somewhere that the idea is that each movie is its own separate universe. they have similarities, because itâs pee wee and reubensâ vision, but their stories are separate.
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Reubens is an anti-Piracy RIAA shill
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That freaked me out when I was little
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Cowntess convinces Pee Wee to pretend to be Miss Yvonne so Cowboy Curtis can practice for his date.
So awesome.
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My spouse just said âLook up Pandemonium. He plays a mountie or something.â
Close. He plays a deputy, apparently.
I kinda wanna see it!
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Thatâs the first time Iâve heard it claimed that Big Top Pee-wee wasnât a sequel to Pee-weeâs Big Adventure. In fact, if you Google âbig top pee wee not a sequelâ, all you get are hundreds of links to sites that refer to it as a sequel.
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the trailer looks great, pee wee looks great, but funny is hard. i hope the movie is funny or at least as entertaining as âbig adventureâ.
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