Bill Murray – Groundhog Day (diner scene)
1993 · Directed by Harold Ramis
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1.“The CGI on this is crazy. Garfield has never looked so lifelike.”
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- 2.“Kanye watches this scene every morning before going on Twitter.”
- 3.“Fun fact: Bill Murray resented Harold Ramis so much by the end of filming that he'd only communicate with him through an interpreter – who was deaf and only used sign language. Harold was used to this, so he filmed the movie in reverse: the ending first, the first half last. He knew Bill would be so fed up by then, he'd already be the jerk from the beginning of the film.”
The story
Not a music video. A movie scene. One of the best in the business.
Phil Connors, Bill Murray's sour TV weatherman, is stuck reliving the same February 2 in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. By this point in the loop he sits down at a diner with his colleague Rita (Andie MacDowell) and tells her he's a god. Not the God. A god. He's been stabbed, shot, poisoned, frozen, hanged, electrocuted and burned, and he wakes up fine every morning at six. When she doesn't buy it, he proves it, reeling off the names, secrets and quirks of everybody in the room while the waitress wonders what she just heard. Hilarious. And under the jokes, kind of devastating.
The uploader's question is the one fans have fought over for decades: how many times has Phil lived this day? Harold Ramis, who directed and co-wrote it with Danny Rubin, first guessed about ten years. Later he decided it had to be more like 30 or 40, once you count all the wasted ones. Compared to what? Most of us waste a few decades without a time loop.
The film won Ramis and Rubin a BAFTA for its screenplay and landed in the National Film Registry in 2006. Its title is now a regular English phrase for any day that keeps repeating. It also ended Murray and Ramis's long partnership – they didn't really talk again until shortly before Ramis died in 2014.
