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Crossroads with Ralph Macchio
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I think Crossroads is a great movie, with an awesome soundtrack, once you get over Rrrraaalllph.
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Yeh, I like Ry Cooder.
Someone else had already posted Howard the Duck. People don't realize George Lucas was a visionary God with that movie.
After putting the smackdown on a monster in the Cedar Forest, the ancient Babylonian hero Gilgamesh took a trip to the world of the dead. Howard the Duck also goes on a hero's journey. He leaves his comfortable Duck World for a strange realm of bizarre creatures called... Pittsburgh.
Howard the Duck is alive with symbolic meaning. Critics didn't notice, but Lea Thompson's character is "the Wild Woman," a figure we see time and time again. In Russian myth, the Wild Women have abundant tresses, and lurk in the woods dancing, waiting to seduce human lovers. Here, she's a New Waver who hopes to get it on with a duck.
The principal from Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a scientist who becomes the mind-controlled slave of the Dark Overlords of the Universe — leading to jokes about how the chili couldn't have been that bad. He's the figure of the Bewildered Priest, the person in our story who is maddened by the glimpse beyond the Wall of Paradise. And Tim Robbins' befuddled scientist is clearly Thoth, Egyptian science god.
There are also bare-breasted duck women, and a heavy-set African-American employment counselor whose buttocks Howard is suddenly seized by the urge to bite. This is just Lucas's gift for comic relief, which is a completely different subject.