Thursday, July 31, 2008

A wink's as good as a nod

My 2 year old son loves "Cars." My wife or I (or both) get asked to "watch Lightning on TV" at least once a day. Sometimes he just asks for "race cars on TV", but I can't get away with some Formula 1, he'll say "don't want to watch that" or "Lightning race cars." Fortunately, I rather enjoy "Cars," so it only pains me somewhat to watch it for a the umpteenth time.

And what I've observed from these copious number of viewings is that somebody involved in making this movie loves to have the characters wink. I had noticed in the first 15 minutes of the movie a rather large number of winks, so over the course of my viewings I've been keeping track. And I'm up to 18 winks during this 1 hour 56 minute long movie.

So here's my catalogue of winks in the movie "Cars." Sorry, I didn't take note of the times, although these are chronological, so a description will have to do (warning, may contain spoilers).

  1. Lightning McQueen (LM) winks at the camera on the back of another race car
  2. RV fan on right during race
  3. LM winks at twins while flying through air
  4. LM winks at nobody in particular just after landing from above
  5. One of the Dinoco Girls on sponsor platform
  6. Another of the Dinoco Girls on sponsor platform
  7. Dinoco helicopter in LM daydream sequence
  8. LM in Rusteze commercial
  9. LM at Sally in Radiator Springs court
  10. Sally after LM runs out of gas
  11. Lizzy at Van after slapping on bumper sticker
  12. Dinoco helicopter in LM "Chick Hicks Dinoco" nightmare
  13. LQ at sally when getting tires at Luigi's Casa Della Tires
  14. Mater at Sally and LM during the "Sh-boom" music sequence
  15. King winks at Dale Jr. before big race
  16. Darrell Cartrip - I don't exactly remember this one
  17. Dinco helicopter at LM when Tex offers him sponsorship
  18. Tex at LM when saying just let him know if he needs anything
I just found 2 of these in a viewing a few days ago, and I think I've got them all, but I keep catching new ones. It's inspired me to try to incorporate the wink into my daily life, but I don't really seem to have many opportunities. And I don't think I'm very good at it, either.

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