Mallrats -- I just made the connection.

[chuyler1]

So I'm watching Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. I saw it years ago but my g/f was on a Robert Redford kick and when I found out she hadn't seen it we rented it. So I get all the way to the end when they say...

Sundance: What?
Butch: You didn't see Lefors out there, did ya?
Sundance: Lefors? No.
Butch: (confidently) Good. For a moment there, I thought we were in trouble.

...and I made the connection...somehow...I heard Jay saying "You don't know lafours? Lafours is only the most..." and then I remembered the straw hat. Kevin Smith is once again brilliant by so subltly pulling in from a great classic.

Of course, then I sat down at my computer and found some movie trivia...

"La Fours", the mall security guard, is a reference to "La Force" the bounty hunter after Robert Redford and Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). Both characters are noted for their straw hats and being the toughest lawmen around.

I'm always a step behind it seems.

 

[Stealth5]

the sunovabitch head of security at my school looks just like la fours....


and i want to hit him with a sock full of quarters

 

[Minus]

its not that your are a step behind, its that kevin smith is a step ahead
he probably knows tons of movie triva

 

[chuyler1]

Yeah I'm sure he knows everything about everything when it comes to movies...but I'm usually good at picking stuff like that up. I hate it when I figure it out backwards. But I guess I did figure it out, which is more than some people. How many Mallrats fans would have actually seen Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?

 

[AGR]

Mallrats = Claire Forlani

 

[Stealth5]

i like kevin smith movies but the writing is so phony in them. they have these deep philosophical conversations about the food court and s***, you just know kevin and his friends argued about that at a mall and he wrote it into the script

 

[chuyler1]

well, if him and his friends actually argued about it...what is phoney about it? I'd call it true to life...because we all argue about stupid s*** like that all the time.

 

[Stealth5]

he puts wayyyyyyyyyyyy too much thought into it and the way they talk about it is phony. it sounds like the characters have been researching and planning what to say for a week

 

[jersey_emt]

Kevin Smith is a genious.