We love “The Gooonies”, but something bother us throughout these years

One of many blessings/curses that come with aging is a new perspective about things. Movies, for example. You can watch a film that increases a billion times, learn to quote each line, buy stickers and games, and reveal how Watching it makes you feel like you were a child again. Then you see it after a few years and Notice something you hadn’t noticed before. Something does not matter when you are 10, 20 or 30. But at 40 or 50, you cannot get your head around. This does not spoil the movie exactly, but it adds A new layer you never expected.

This is what happened to me recently as I saw GranulesThat celebrated its fortieth day on June 7. Granules It is a Lucy family tradition. It is my favorite brother in all times, which makes it one for me as well, and something we shared with the late parents as well. As for our mother, I endured my brother, who had two fat cheeks as a child, a “piece”. So yes, Granules It is something we love and love. It is also the Kid Ultimate Kid Wish-FullfillMent. The door runs out with your friends and ends up in an epic adventure where the bad guys are defeated, a piracy ship finds this process. I still feel and enjoy all this every time I watch it. However, I recently realized that the actual essence of Granules It does not fully add.

If you haven’t seen the movie for a while, you have at least a general idea of ​​what I am talking about. The poem of the film is that a group of wealthy people force the factors (a title called children in this particular neighborhood) and their families from Astoria, Oregon, including a golf course. To fix this, children go in adventure, find some “rich things”, and in the end they pay their parents’ debts. As a child, all this is clear, and if you are only thinking about it at this level, it will remain so. However, as an adult now deals with bills, debts, lawyers and everything else, I now find some holes in this hypothesis.

Let’s divide this. Perkins Financial, led by Troy’s father, Mr. Perkins, is the company that forces families to leave their homes, which will then be demolished to make way for this golf course. He tells himself, the evil son of the main man, indicating that there are about 50 homes about to suffer from this fate. How can Perkins Financial do this? Well, they prevent these homes, and it is a fact that does not focus heavily in the movie, but it is there. The mortgage is basically when you can no longer pay your mortgage, so someone turns to take from you. “The mortgage imprisonment is specific,” Mr. Perkins told his colleague after she slipped from the paper in a home of Walsh, the home of Mickey and the Brand brand, two of our main characters.

Problems begin when you start thinking outside the Walsh house in the middle of the movie. “Doon Docks”, as the characters call it, is a large muffled neighborhood. With the opening of the film, you see a lot of beautiful homes and loud companies. They are making truck races on the beach. There is a nice museum in the city. Children take piano lessons, buy expensive bicycles, and wish inventions. Even Mrs. Walsh, who is supposed to be broken, hires a person to clean their entire house and be firmly for them (the previous day it is supposed to move, which is completely else). Astoria rural, but it is nice. We believe that 50 families are in a very specific neighborhood for society, a wealthy community to support a country club, have stopped the ability to pay their real estate mortgages, allowing Berkins Financial to take.

This would have a great meaning if Astoria is a kind of industrial cities where every person works in one employer. But this is not the case. We see data hanging in an abandoned factory for a second at first, but there is no evidence that it was a major part of the city. In fact, Micky mentions even moving to Detroit where, at the time, the auto industry will fill this bill completely. Instead, when we see the families of the columns at the end, they seem to be a good society. Various interests, backgrounds and financial positions. There should be something all put them in an intensity at the same time, and not knowing what happened to it.

Did everyone invest in the same bad stocks? Was there a kind of gas leakage that leads the value of the property? Did a serial killer escaped and made the neighborhood uninterrupted? We do not know. You can say, perhaps, not everyone has their homes. Some of them may have been rented, which worked as a somewhat interpretation. The owner can definitely, legally, forced a tenant from a property if it has exceeded the lease contract. The problem with this is that Gooonies believe that money will allow them to stay in their homes, and money is not necessarily a solution to force him to get out of a rented property. It is not your property. So a large group of “rich things” will not help everyone in this case.

Things change in the end when Mickey finds jewelry in his marble bag. Seeing these jewelry, his father, Irfing, tore the Perkins contract, and everything right with the world. Is it though? Here where my childhood perception turned in the other direction. When I was younger, I never thought about one bag of jewelry was enough to save everyone. One bag of jewelry for 50 homes? They have left many other precious things on the willy ship with the eyes. Now, though, I think this is more logical. The brand jokes at the beginning of the movie that his father will need 400 checks to pay their debts. Assuming that he gets salaries once a month, this is on Eight years old The value of the salary. Let’s say that Mr. Walsh gets $ 50,000 a year, which is higher than the average of 1985, but it covers its highest levels and its lowest levels. Therefore, due to the brand mathematics, it owes about $ 400,000. Fifty houses at $ 400,000 is $ 20 million. This looks a lot, but Mickey kept at least 10 jewels or so. I have seen enough films to find out those that could be equal to millions all. He can have tens of millions in jewelry there, depending on quality and clarity. Assuming that they can find the buyer.

You never think about these things as a child. You do not care about those who possess what, the rents from, or anything else. The jewelry was valuable, GONIES, and everyone has to keep their homes. But going to these methods can be dangerous. For example, as soon as I reconcile with The Jewel Thing, I began to think about the fact that there is more gold and jewelry on a piracy ship, and it is now randomly floating in the ocean without anyone with a legal claim. Don’t you think someone will have an idea to seize a boat and go there? What happens if many people go? Do you belong to the city? Willie’s descendant? Al -Amaz because they found that? We do not know.

Look, I fully admit that I am very disturbed and Nizbake here. i know it. The truth is that in the 1980s, we all had a nice general feeling of the conflict that the granules were trying to solve, and this is all that matters. However, as an adult, when you watch a movie, you raise questions several times. Discussions. Even if they seem to be working against the movie, you should be able to think about this 40 years after its release.

Granules He is Flow on HBO MaxAnd Warner Bros. Development of continuation. Perhaps he will explain what was happening in Astoria in 1985 that everyone suddenly broke, or who invited those spoils.

June 11 correction 4 pm EST: As it was indicated in the comments, the salaries usually do not come daily, so our mathematics was at the original estimate in this article. We updated it to reflect this.

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