Cosmic Cowbell wrote:
Would love to see 'Schmidt and Ndugu go to White Castle'
A whole series of Schmidt and Ndugu road movies were left open by that "I might live for twenty years, or die tomorrow" line. I like to imagine that they will one day go to Graceland, in a van made of hash, with Cheech, Chong, Nicholas Garrigan, and Idi Amin. And that Schmidt will still be irritable and abrasive all the way despite his (kind of) redemption in that final scene.
I found the film sad, but I didn't really get it. He
has changed the world. He has a daughter, who is alive, and he is still alive too. Job done.
Did he think he was going to conquer Europe as a youngster or something? It doesn't take much to change the world in a noticeable fashion. You only have to live in it, and not even for very long.
"The universe is 40 billion light years across and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. That is the position of the universe with regard to human life."