the groundhog day project

As far as deja vu jokes go, Top Secret! --which has absolutely nothing else to do with Groundhog Day , except I just watched the former after not having seen it in many years and am now watching the latter--has a good one. Du Quois introduces the Resistance members. The first group is "Chevalier, Montage, Detente, Avant Garde, and Deja Vu." That last one looks at our lead, Nick Rivers (Val Kilmer) and says, "Have we not met before, Monsieur?" Actually, I thought I found another link between Top Secret! and Groundhog Day when I saw that IMDb lists Top Secret! 's release date as June 8, 1984, the same day Ghostbusters , starring Bill Murray and directed by Harold Ramis, came out. Except, on closer inspection, i.e. Box Office Mojo , I confirmed that Top Secret! actually came out 2 weeks later, the same day as Rhinestone , which I am sure Rita Hanson just loved. But Ghostbusters was still number one at the box office. And, since I've reminisced recently ...

We have all some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time - of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances - of our knowing perfectly what will be said next, as if we suddenly remember it! That’s Dickens in David Copperfield . He’s talking about what we call déjà vu. Déjà vu gets namechecked twice in Groundhog Day . When, Phil asks Mrs. Lancaster if she ever has déjà vu, she mistakes the term for some sort of food—you know, a good fun jibe at those hicks in Punxsutawney. When Rita asks Phil if he ever has déjà vu, he replies with the classic, “Didn’t you just ask me that?” From the French for “already seen,” we usually throw out the term déjà vu for any situation that seems a little too familiar, like it’s already happened before but we can’t consciously remember it. Like we’ve read someone’s blog entry already but it isn’t exactly the sam...

We have all some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time - of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances - of our knowing perfectly what will be said next, as if we suddenly remember it! That’s Dickens in David Copperfield . He’s talking about what we call déjà vu. Déjà vu gets namechecked twice in Groundhog Day . When, Phil asks Mrs. Lancaster if she ever has déjà vu, she mistakes the term for some sort of food—you know, a good fun jibe at those hicks in Punxsutawney. When Rita asks Phil if he ever has déjà vu, he replies with the classic, “Didn’t you just ask me that?” From the French for “already seen,” we usually throw out the term déjà vu for any situation that seems a little too familiar, like it’s already happened before but we can’t consciously remember it. Like we’ve read someone’s blog entry already but it isn’t exactly the same...

We have all some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time - of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances - of our knowing perfectly what will be said next, as if we suddenly remember it! That’s Dickens in David Copperfield . He’s talking about what we call déjà vu. Déjà vu gets namechecked twice in Groundhog Day . From the French for “already seen,” we usually throw out the term for any situation that seems a little too familiar, like it’s already happened before but we can’t consciously remember it. For Phil Connors, it’s a little more literal. Claire Flaherty-Craig, a consulting and treating neurophsychologist at Hershey Medical Center describes the actual condition as a “disconnect between objective unfamiliarity and a subject sense of familiarity.” The term was coined in 1876… (That’s only a year or two separate from the origins of G...