Ok, so I get a call from my high school cell group (bible study) guys to invite me to a movie night. We watch Memento (starring Guy Peirce). It's a really incredible movie if you haven't seen it. The movie starts at the end of the story and moves backwards (the clips move forward in time, but the clips are in reverse order, though the first clip, i.e. the end, plays completely backwards). So at the end of the movie, the guys ask me what I think about it. I said it was pretty incredible and then compared the movie format to the Mary Poppins song "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious". They looked confused, so I explained it to them. Both the movie and the song go in reverse order, as the song goes like this:
"Super-cali-fragi-listic-expi-ali-docious, though you can say it backwards which is
Docious-ali-expi-listic-fragi-cali-repus, but that's going a bit too far, don't you think?"
So if you follow the comparison, the song takes each phrase of the word and simply puts them in reverse order, though not spelling the word completely backwards. However, the "super" part is reversed. Thus, the song "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" is in the same storyline format as Memento.
If you've seen the movie, this would make a lot more sense.
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Published by John Nelson
on August 29, 2004 at 2:38 PM.
"Super-cali-fragi-listic-expi-ali-docious, though you can say it backwards which is
Docious-ali-expi-listic-fragi-cali-repus, but that's going a bit too far, don't you think?"
So if you follow the comparison, the song takes each phrase of the word and simply puts them in reverse order, though not spelling the word completely backwards. However, the "super" part is reversed. Thus, the song "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" is in the same storyline format as Memento.
If you've seen the movie, this would make a lot more sense.
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