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So, when he wakes up the next morning to see that his family is gone, he assumes that he really did make them disappear. When Marley sends that final, sweet wave to Kevin, Home Alone fans are usually saying goodbye to an old, reliable friend, too. Before he was Old Man Marley, Roberts Blossom portrayed Ezra Cobb in the 1974 film Deranged (which was 16 years before Home Alone and based on the real-life criminal Ed Gein). When Kevin walks outside his house while saying he is not afraid anymore, he encounters Marley, and turns and runs back inside his house, afraid. Old Man Marley was an old man, the neighbor of Kevin McCallister and the deuteragonist of the 1990 film Home Alone. Blossom died on July 8, 2011, at the age of 87 from cerebrovascular disease.
Blossom is also known for starring in the 1983 horror film Christine, a film directed by John Carpenter which is an adaptation of the book by Stephen King. He is best known for his role in the 1990 film Home Alone, in which he played Old Man Marley alongside Macaulay Culkin. He appeared in his final film role in 1995 alongside Sharon Stone and Leonardo DiCaprio in The Quick and The Dead . Blossom's other film credits include Doc Hollywood starring Michael J. Fox; Reuben, Reuben ; Resurrection starring Ellen Burstyn; Flashpoint ; Vision Quest starring Matthew Modine and Linda Fiorentino; and Always .
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Kevin wakes up to find the house empty as the family's flight takes off. Upon realizing he is home alone, he is overjoyed to find that his wish came true and begins doing whatever he wants, such as jumping on his parents' bed and getting into Buzz's belongings, including his BB gun. The filmmakers make a big point of showing his hand in each of his appearances after the initial one where Buzz makes up a story about him; in that scene, he's wearing gloves.
When Kevin is sliding down the steps the toboggan is lined-up with the stairway, when he goes out the door, the toboggan is now lined-up with the doorway. When the alarm clock turns off because of the power loss, we can clearly see that this Panasonic clock has a battery back-up feature, which means that even after the blackout, it should have still worked. In the beginning of the movie after Peter realizes he will not be able to shave in Paris without a power adapter, Kate tells him to grow a goatee. This would be impossible, since a goatee would still require shaving part of your beard.
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As the family rushes around the McCallister home, packing their things, a questionable police officer stands in the foyer, attempting to find an adult to speak with. Meanwhile, Kevin complains to his parents about his uncle Frank and he is instructed to pack his suitcase. However, his siblings refuse to help him, which causes Kevin to complain that he is fed up of living in a house full of people and rants that he wants to live alone when he grows up and gets married. It is likely that the police would have relayed this information back to the McCallisters and that this would explain Peter's frantic mood. Marv does the same at the basement steps, sliding down on them to the door and struggling to stand up in the frozen ground.
Harry and Marv meet each other on one side, but when Kevin says "Come and get me," they come from both sides to the foot of the stairs. When Kevin crosses himself before his macaroni and cheese dinner, he goes from right shoulder to left shoulder. The microwave macaroni and cheese that Kevin gets from the grocery store asking the cashier if it's any good and is almost about to eat which he doesn't is Kraft Dinner. During rehearsal for the scene where Harry attempts to bite off Kevin's finger, Joe Pesci actually bit Macaulay Culkin, leaving a small scar.
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During the police department scene, a piece of the donut fell on the phone receiver, because of that the producers had to film every take with the donut still on the receiver until it fell off because of continuity reasons. As Kevin blesses his macaroni and cheese dinner, the clock strikes nine, and he runs to the kitchen, pumps the BB gun and says, "This is it. Don't get scared now" before hiding by the door. Harry and Marv torment Kevin at the back door and Kevin shoots Harry in the crotch with Buzz's BB gun through the doggy door. Marv sticks his head through the doggy door and is shot in the forehead.
He is also remembered for his supporting roles in films such as The Great Gatsby , Close Encounters of the Third Kind , Escape from Alcatraz , Christine , and The Last Temptation of Christ . The trailer shows Blossom in his 70s, claiming to communicate with his son via telepathy. Most would consider claims of telepathic communication a clear sign of declining mental health, but some accept it as one of the peculiar actor’s many quirks.
Kevin goes to his older brother, Buzz, to ask him if he can sleep in his room for the night because he knows that his little cousin Fuller will wet the bed that they will be sharing. Disappointed for even asking, Buzz replies “I wouldn't let you sleep in my room, if you were growing on my ass! ” Later Buzz tells him and their cousin Rod McCallister that their next-door neighbor, Old Man Marley is the "South Bend Shovel Slayer," who is rumored to have murdered his family and half of the people on the block in 1958. Later when the Wet Bandits trapped Kevin at the Murphy's house Marley sneaks in, and saves him by knocking the burglars out with his shovel and takes Kevin back home and the Police arrests The Wet Bandits. Then Marley turns and goes home with his family, After that Kevin's brother Buzz can be heard saying "Kevin, what did you do to my room?!" and Kevin runs off.
Old Man Marley's arc is super simple but really effective as a faux antagonist, it helps Kevin move along with his arc too. During dinner, Buzz is seen shoving an entire plain cheese pizza (Kevin's favorite) in his mouth, which he and Kevin were supposed to share. Kevin looks for his favorite pizza and when he does not see any, he asks if anyone ordered some. This annoys Kevin and he sees Fuller smirking at him when he drinks a can of Pepsi. Knowing Fuller was deliberately doing this to pee on him while sleeping, Kevin is angered further.
However, the other flashback visions were also not shown exactly as they had happened earlier in the film. The plane shown landing at the Scranton Airport is a McDonnell Douglas DC-10. The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Airport has never had regular service from a DC-10 by any airline.
When Marv and Harry are arguing in the van, they realize they are about to hit Kevin and screech to a stop. But the distance they had to stop was not enough time to avoid hitting Kevin. When the McCallisters are leaving in the morning and the neighbor boy is speaking with the van driver, he is mouthing the driver's lines . There is no explanation about why Old Man Marley had a bloody rag on his hand while in the store or a Band-Aid on his hand when he and Kevin shake hands in the church. However, the novelization by Todd Strassman explains that when he was in the store, he accidentally cut his hand on the blade of his shovel.
You may be gone physically, but you’re still here in spirit, as well as in our hearts and memories, and in the movies you left behind.. He is one of my favorite characters, and Roberts Blossom did an awesome job bringing him to life in the film, especially when portraying Marley as a man preoccupied with loss. Blossom was formerly married to Beverly Schmidt Blossom, with whom he had a son, Michael, and who died on November 1, 2014, of cancer. He was later married to Marylin Orshan Blossom until her death in 1982, with whom he had a daughter, Deborah Blossom.
When Kevin goes across the street to his neighbors house entering through the flooded basement his clothes are soaked as he rushes up the stairs. In the next scene where he goes through the door to run into Harry and Marv his clothes are dry. However, the Wet Bandits ambush Kevin at the top of the basement steps. Harry once again attempts to climb up the stairs and is successful this time. He grabs the doorknob, which burns his hand, which he cools in a pile of snow.
The picture Kevin finds of Buzz's girlfriend was a picture of a boy made up to look like a girl because director Chris Columbus thought it would be too cruel to tease a girl in that manner. When Kevin speeds out the front door on the sleigh, there is no way he can get a lot of elevation since the stairs leading up to the front door are very small. There is a cut scene were Rob and Georgette are welcoming the family with a poster, only for the clan to rush through the sign, ripping it. ' version of "White Christmas" and once again screams from his father's aftershave as Buzz's tarantula roams free after escaping as a result of Kevin accidentally breaking the shelving.
Harry is seen wearing a wedding ring in the shot where Marv tries to kill the spider that is on Harry's chest. Just before Marv and Harry step into the small pile of toy cars and slip up at the bottom of the stairs, Harry had been covered in feathers. In the next shot, there are no feathers on him at all, which mysteriously disappear. When Tracy asks Heather if she ordered the pizza, Tracy calls Heather "Tracy" by mistake. In the battle plan, on one side of the house, there are Christmas ornaments, while the other side has glue on plastic wrap, a fan, and feathers.
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