I guess Daniel realized the end of their marriage would've been inevitable. In a weird way, I think he made peace with it here and realized she saved them both a lot of pain, and especially the children.
I love this scene. Many of us would love a glimpse of what someone thinks of us, and Daniel gets that chance here. Unfortunately, the truth is usually a very hard thing to swallow. Doubly hard for him because he has no choice but to just listen rather than argue or deflect. He truly didn't understand Miranda's side of things and how much he'd let her down until this moment. Rough.
Maybe as Mrs. Doubtfire, she could’ve tried to convince Miranda to maybe give Daniel another chance, saying that maybe he had a rough childhood and a bad father as a kid, making him want to be the dad who’d always go out of his way. Wouldn’t that work?
All the actors in this film have been perfect. Robin first, but also Sally Field. She's been amazing playing this role. As a child I didn't like her because she asked for divorce and I blamed her for "distroying" a family. But it wasn't true. Who could be so patient to stand such a husband?! He was totally childish and unreliable. Everything was in charge of this poor woman.
When Miranda finds out at the end of the film, shouting “THE WHOLE TIME!” I think she is reflecting purely on this scene where she let her barriers down to Daniel and told him exactly how she felt all those years.
When Miranda says she didn’t like who she was when she was with Daniel since she would turn into a horrible person and she didn’t want her kids to grow-up with a mother like that, it shows how parents don’t want their kids growing-up with an angry parent. Besides, it’s important that you like who you are.
Maybe if this were like the 30s or 40s, voice actors wouldn't be trying to send a positive message about the dangers of smoking in their cartoons. But this is the 90s and you don't see that much smoking in 90s cartoons and some of them have a positive message about the dangers of smoking. Maybe lou should have let daniel ad libbed his lines at the end of that episode so maybe they won't get sued because a child may smoke because he saw pudgy doing it. 😅
@1:24 did he drop the mrs.doubtfire voice thats happened twice in this movie where you hear robin as Daniel almost let his guard down and end up hearing a mrs.doubtfire/Daniel hybrid voice
"Daniel never liked to talk about anything serious" "But then i was serious enough for everybody" I never been married but FELT those two lines in my SOUL. To want to be taken seriously when talking about your worries, goals, anything, just to be ignored or have your issues turned into some comedy routine, its a special kind of psychological torture. Soon enough you either see yourself turn into a walking joke, or a monster when asking for at least a bit more of respect.
I used to date someone like that years ago too.... It's not that I don't know how to let loose once in awhile but personality-wise, I tend to be the more serious one who likes to focus on getting down to business. My ex-partner was more of the fun-loving type who gets easily bored by "seriousness." Needless to say, we fought all the time all the way up to when we finally broke up. Sometimes people just simply are not compatible, no matter how hard you may try to understand each other. Everyone has their own way of looking at things. It's important to learn and take positives out of those who are different from us but when you feel you have to completely change your values in order to be happy in a relationship, that's where you know it's time to call it quits.
He was a real father who loved and cared about kids and Miranda was wrong to shield him away from them, how many dead beat fathers we have today that don’t care about their kids and never spent time with them or raised them and it’s been going on for years
Imagine a world where a husband needs to become an old lady to hear what his wife really thinks..... What sort of world would it be if a husband and a wife could engage in an actual conversation.
Problem is, Daniel was the type who focused mostly on being fun loving and living in the moment. Serious talks would bore him. Some people are like that. I dated someone like that before. It was horrible. Some people just aren't meant to be together.
This is when Daniel realizes that he he always took Miranda for granted at the beginning of the movie it was all her fault in his eyes. He didn't know what he was doing wrong
2:13 DANIEL: "Then I've got to do what I've got to do." LOU: "That's very funny. Where the hell are you goin'? Hey listen, buddy, I'll tell something. If you leave, you're not coming back in. I'm not taking any crap from you, pal."
I’m glad he rejected her offer to come inside. It looks like he learned way more than she did. But how the heck did the end up together in the first place is the biggest question
even though she did offer him to come in, there’s a reason he didn’t in my honest opinion: during the divorce process, the only way he was allowed in the house was under the disguise as Mrs. Doubtfire, since he was under the court ruling. at the time, he still couldn’t get over it. but now that he and miranda made amends, he’s accepted what he’s done, even before the divorce, and decided to respectfully not to re enter the house, even after miranda invited him in.
What happened to Stu after he almost choked to death and Mrs. Doubtfire was exposed? Did Miranda carry on seeing him or was he like "Screw this, I'm outta here. And just as I was getting used to being around kids too."?
Ive watched Mrs Doubfire so many times and 4 things i wanna say.. the mother is an absolute guys worst nightmare, shes a looney, off her rocker and needs investigating. Perfect example of the mother using the kids as a weapon
This is the one of the bittersweet movies where divorces are a natural thing. Not everyone has a happy ending but some turn better from where they were. Just like any job. You may feel sad or angry when leaving but something better comes along.
I'd like to think by looking at both Daniel and Miranda were looking at each other especialy when in the ending part, watching Mrs. Doubtfire on the tv, that she was feeling love towards him again. So I think they could of got together again if a second film was to be released or and extended ending cut.
No. Sally Field and Robin Williams explicitly told the producers that they did not want their characters getting back together because it would create false hope for children of real life divorced families. They wanted to keep the ending more realistic. That's why Mrs Doubtfires line "Sometimes they get back together. And sometimes they don't."
The fact she couldn’t recognize the man she was married to for 14 years sitting right in front of her makes you realize just how much they drifted apart.
I really like the small but crucial detail that Lydia is not looking at her little sister hugging their dad when she is smiling, but that she is clearly looking at her mother as the oldest child approving of her decision to let their father back into their lives without supervision. A small look that shows character growth from both the mother and the daughter.
Daniel never liked to talk about anything serious. He could be anything, except being serious. - That hit home with Daniel underneath that latex mask. Great scene.
It must have been a shock for Daniel to listen to Miranda, sadly he was too late to be considerate that he was not helping the marriage but adding so must stress to Miranda. Because of this, Miranda eventually resented Daniel and he could at least understand where Miranda was coming from. The sad thing to consider is the what if’s, such as what if Daniel at least made the same effort he put into being Mrs. Doubtfire as Daniel the husband and father, it would have saved the family a lot of pain.
I'd have divorced him too. 3 kids and a wife to feed and he quits a lucrative job with a temper tantrum. Very irresponsible. No house chores either. A drone. Goodbye.
