Topic: How long was Phil Connors reliving the same day in Groundhog Day?
Thank you, Google started this discussion 7 years ago#83,735
In relationship to the spiritual interpretations of the films, many have tried to estimate how long Phil supposedly remains trapped in the loop, in real time, with a wide variance in estimated values. During filming, [director Harold] Ramis, who was a Buddhist, observed that according to Buddhist doctrine, it takes 10,000 years for a soul to evolve to its next level. Therefore, he said, in a spiritual sense, the entire arc of Groundhog Day spans 10,000 years.[18] Deezen noted that the second draft of the screenplay called for Phil to be cursed to live the time loop for 10,000 years.[9] In the DVD commentary, Ramis estimated a real-time duration of 10 years. Later, Ramis told a reporter, "I think the 10-year estimate is too short. It takes at least 10 years to get good at anything, and allotting for the down time and misguided years he spent, it had to be more like 30 or 40 years."[49]
In 2005, [screenwriter Danny] Rubin said, "Ultimately it became this weird political issue because if you asked the studio, 'How long was the repetition?', they'd say, 'Two weeks'. But the point of the movie to me was that you had to feel you were enduring something that was going on for a long time ... For me it had to be—I don't know. A hundred years. A lifetime."[50] In 2014, the website WhatCulture combined various time duration assumptions and estimated that Phil spent a total of 12,395 days—just under 34 years—reliving Groundhog Day.[51][52]
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wow, what is the fucking point of the ceremony if the result is predetermined? Does the groundhog even have a fucking shadow? Is reality concrete right now?
Sheila LaBoof joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 1 hour later, 6 hours after the original post[^][v]#963,081
was there a scene in the movie where Bill eats the groundhog?
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