Several parts of Pukahontas are based on the 1945 classic film The Lost Weekend, which is about an alcoholic writer.The film's title is a reference to the historical person Pocahontas.Ironically, the grand prize turned out to be a lifetime supply of Duff Beer. After a night of soul-searching, Homer concurred, and Pukahontas won the grand prize, having earned the votes of three of the five jury members.
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Later, when the jury cast their votes for the film festival's grand prize, Jay described Barney's movie as "sensitive, yet unfortunately-titled." He and Marge Simpson immediately voted for it to receive the grand prize. Movie critic Jay Sherman immediately said, "I think we have a winner." In the closing shot, the curtains billow as "Fin" appears on the screen.īarney's film drew wild applause, and more than a few tears, from the entire audience. Barney says, in voice-over, "Don't cry for me, I'm already dead." He puts the rose in the Duff bottle on the windowsill, and the petals slowly fall off, scattering in the breeze. The scene changes to a record player, then back to Barney on his couch, holding a rose to his nose.
Gumble, this is a Girl Scout meeting." Barney replies, "Is it? Or is it that you girls can't admit you have a problem?" In the next scene, Barney, seated in a chair, apparently for an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, says, "My name is Barney Gumble and I'm an alcoholic." The camera zooms out to show that Barney is sitting in a circle with several girls wearing Scout uniforms. A tear leaks from his eye and rolls down his cheek. The shot changes back to Barney, who is now old, bald, and toothless, lying in the same gutter. The narration continues: "There's a line in Othello about a drinker: 'Now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast.' That pretty well covers it." Next, in a time-lapse sequence, clouds in the sky pass by as the day changes to night and back to day again. He collapses and lays the bottle down with some beer still in it, and beer spills out and pours into a sewer grating. The scene shifts to Barney lying in a gutter drinking another Duff. Barney, narrating in voice-over, says, "My name is Barney Gumble. The shot changes to a view from above, now showing that Barney is lying on a couch. A hand reaches up, turns the bottle upside down, and the shot zooms out to reveal that Barney is drinking the beer.
Pukahontas opens with a shot of a Duff Beer bottle sitting on a windowsill with curtains billowing around it in the breeze.
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