how long was bill murry in ground hog day?

[Dragonzbane76]

So what's the guess? Taking into account that he learned french, piano, ice sculpting, and card tricks. I'm going with 50 years. My guess.

[David Jamieson]

ok, this is totally off topic so, don't be alarmed when it gets moved there. lol

but 50 years? nah.

You can learn french in less than a year with immersion.
You can learn piano and be proficient on it within 2 years.
card tricks you can learn at least 5 or 10 in only a few days with practice.
and ice sculpting is something you can learn in a few days as well, but require practice to get good at. You could be good at it inside a year.

so, all things happening in the same continuum, he was there for only a couple of years, but it felt like an eternity because of the futility of modern living and the dystopian social construct we are currently each stuck in. lol

[Dragonzbane76]

i agree with some of your observation but not all

french with total immersion yes but he wasn't in a french society
piano playing at a proficent level 2 years yes... but he was playing well above a proficent level. Chopsticks yes but not rachmanninoff.
card tricks yeah off and on he could in a month or 2
ice sculpting is the one i think would take more time. Skills to craft in a master level would take years to aquire.

Also take into consideration all the time he spent doing other things. Stacking out stuff. learning the patterns, people, hooking up, etc. Also you would have to cut the days he killed himself because the rest of the day he was dead till the next morning.

[Lucas]

google! sry if i ruined it. such a random thread LOL

Danny Rubin, the screenwriter for Groundhog Day, on how long Phil was stuck in Punxsutawney.

'My original intent was that the length of time neednt be specific, just terribly long, and in my mind, more than one lifetime. That was in fact the whole point of the original experiment, the one I hoped to play out via comedic dramatization: if a person could live long enough would that person fundamentally change? The clarity of the experiment would come from the huge exaggeration of time. He would have to live longer than a person is supposed to live, more than one lifetime. The repetition part was how I got to the immortality.

I know that I have been quoted as having originally intended for Phil to have lived ten thousand years, a time-frame with Buddhist overtones. I find that so incredibly cool that I put no effort into disputing it. But its not true. For me, any lifetime for Phil longer than one would have sufficed, and even so, that statistic never had to leave my head. As long as the audience understood it to be a very, very long time, it never had to become specific.'

[Scott R. Brown]

Come on guys you are making this way to hard....it was only ONE day!!! He just played it over and over again. No matter how many days you guess.....it will always be ONE day, he didn't age, no one else aged, and time did not pass!!!

[Kpower]

Come on guys you are making this way to hard....it was only ONE day!!! He just played it over and over again. No matter how many days you guess.....it will always be ONE day, he didn't age, no one else aged, and time did not pass!!!

He did age in a sense because he retained information from previous days. Each day varied based on his actions within it. The clock reset for everyone else but not him.

Don't forget he trained himself to be a doctor too.

[GeneChing]

...just to bed Andie MacDowell.

I'm going to leave this here for today. I'll move it OT tomorrow.