8mo ago

TIL that Bill Murray repeated the same day 12,395 times in Groundhog Day

That's 34 years' worth of days!

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Are we just making up TIL's, now? There was never an exact number in mind or set when the movie was made. Just "long".
- I asked the Internet. You don't doubt the Internet, do you?
  
  I also asked and the internet said I was right. And sexy.
- Groundhog Day (1993)
- Ramis originally said it was around 10 years of repeated days but later changed to 30-40 years. https://collider.com/groundhog-day-time-loop/
  
  Okay, that makes it more understandable that he tried to kill himself, and then mastered the piano and several other things.
There are a lot of theories, even from the creators: https://mashable.com/article/how-long-phil-connors-stuck-in-groundhog-day-time-loop
- I'm honestly more inclined to agree with longer interpretations, as I'm sceptical that he was enough of a natural at all the skills he demonstrates in the movie to have perfected them all in just 6 weeks
  
  If he was at my level of ability when it came to learning the piano, it would have taking him approximately 700 years to be able to play that song so well at the end.
I'm gonna need a source on that.
- Some reddit post
That's karma, handing us the same lessons until we graduate to new ones.
Bill Murray is the original Dr. Strange.
- Ned Ryerson, I've come for an insurance bargain!
  
  I have not seen this guy for 20 years. He comes up to me and he buys whole life, term, uniflex, fire, theft, auto, dental, health, with the optional death and dismemberment plan, water damage …
It was so traumatizing he had to go see Richard Dreyfus for therapy.

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