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Both dumped by their girlfriends, two best friends seek refuge in the local mall. Both dumped by their girlfriends, two best friends seek refuge in the local mall. Both dumped by their girlfriends, two best friends seek refuge in the local mall.

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• Trivia (at around 10 mins) Brodie's comic book collection seen in the movie was director Kevin Smith 's collection at the time (which has grown considerably since). The collection is what Smith was able to purchase back after selling his original collection to finance production of Clerks (1994) .
• Goofs When Brodie and TS first arrive at the mall, the license plates on the cars state New Jersey, then the remainder show Minnesota.

Stan Lee : You know, I think you ought to get him some help. He seems to be really hung up on super heroes' sex organs.

• Crazy credits End credits finish with: Jay and Silent Bob will return in "Chasing Amy"
• Alternate versions There is also a 10th Anniversary Extended Edition, running 2hours and 2 minutes.
• Connections Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Get Shorty/Now and Then/Mallrats (1995)
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Regarding that stereoscopic picture in mallrats….

Just in case I never posted this:  Do you remember that scene in Mallrats where William can’t see the “sailboat” in the stereoscopic picture?  Did you ever wonder what the hell was in that picture?

Well, here it is.  A capture of the screen from the movie.  And yes, amazingly the stereoscopic picture works perfectly in the below snapshot:

Here’s the funny part:  There’s no sailboat.  I won’t tell you what’s in there but there’s no boat to be found, albeit there are 3D objects in the picture to be seen.

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3 Responses to Regarding that Stereoscopic picture in Mallrats…

it’s good. it has items in this way from left top to right bottom.. a plus sign, engraved cone, engraved diamond, engraved star, ball, a half ball shell facing upward, a ball shell with further half, a ball shell with further cut, and on the bottom row, 4 trees from top.

It’s not a sailboat, it’s a schooner, you dumb bastard!

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Wow. It's a schooner. Ha ha ha ha. You dumb bastard. It's not a schooner... it's a...

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18 Fun Facts About Mallrats

Mallrats , which was released 20 years ago today, is the story of T.S. and Brodie, two heartbroken young men who spend an eventful day at the mall trying to win back their girlfriends. The film, which was writer-director Kevin Smith’s follow-up to the indie hit Clerks , was a critical and commercial failure back in 1995. But over time, Smith devotees and casual fans alike began to see the film from a new perspective—as if they were looking at a Magic Eye display—and reconsider its individual charms, eventually turning the film into a bona fide cult classic (and one that's about to get a sequel ). Here are some facts about the movie to read at the cookie stand, which is definitely not part of the food court.

1. THE STUDIO SOLD IT AS A "SMART PORKY’S ."

Universal was so confident in the film’s prospects that they referred to it as a more intelligent version of the classic 1981 high school movie and had plans for a Mallrats sequel before the original film was even released. They canceled those plans after Mallrats earned just over $2.1 million in theaters.

2. UNIVERSAL WANTED ETHAN HAWKE TO STAR.

In a 1994 interview with Entertainment Weekly , Smith explained that "The studio has given us a list of stars they think should be in the movie." At the top of that list was Ethan Hawke, who Smith called "the most overworked actor in America. I’d like to give him a rest.”

3. JENNY MCCARTHY AND JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT AUDITIONED.

Jenny McCarthy claimed that Smith "didn't even wait until I was out of the office to start laughing" about her audition. Love Hewitt tried as well, but didn’t make the cut . William Atherton was offered the role of Brandi’s father , Mr. Svenning; he opted to act in Bio-Dome instead.

4. PARKER POSEY INITIALLY HAD THE ROLE OF RENE.

Joey Lauren Adams had believed for one year that she was going to get the role of Rene, Brodie's girlfriend, until her agent informed her that her best friend, Parker Posey, had gotten the part. Awkwardly, Posey was standing right next to Adams when she got the news: "Tears streaming down my face, I hugged and congratulated her, as visions of arsenic danced in my head," said Adams . Eventually, Posey had to drop out due to a scheduling conflict, and Shannen Doherty got the part instead. Adams read for—and won—the part of Gwen.

5. BEN AFFLECK WANTED TO STAR IN THE MOVIE.

He settled for playing Shannon, despite not wanting to play another bad guy like he had in Dazed and Confused . "Part of me was like, 'God, am I going to be relegated to throwing people into their lockers for the rest of my career?,'" Affleck told Backstage .

6. JASON LEE WAS BETTER KNOWN AS A SKATEBOARDER, NOT AN ACTOR.

Jason Lee had been casually dabbling in acting while skateboarding, appearing in commercials and in small films before winning the part of Brodie. He decided to quit the sport after Mallrats .

7. SETH GREEN WAS USED BY THE STUDIO AS INSURANCE IN CASE JASON MEWES COULDN’T CUT IT.

Even though Jason Mewes had played Jay in Clerks , Gramercy Pictures (a Universal subsidiary) forced him to audition against Seth Green, then kept Green available just in case they found it necessary to replace Mewes during filming. The studio also wouldn't pay for Mewes' air travel, his hotel room, or for rehearsals. After studio heads witnessed his first day of work, they left satisfied with his performance.

8. IT WAS SHOT IN A MINNESOTA MALL.

Smith wanted to shoot the film in his home state of New Jersey, but Gramercy said no. Eden Prairie Center Mall in Eden Prairie, Minnesota ended up hosting the cast and crew. The state's big tax break and the fact that the mall was only operating at half capacity made it the right financial and practical choice.

9. A NEARLY 30-MINUTE OPENING SCENE AT A GOVERNOR’S BALL WAS CUT.

In the original version of the film, T.S. accidentally shot the Governor of New Jersey at a function hosted by Mr. Svenning, which helped explain Brandi’s father’s hatred of T.S. throughout the film. Preview audiences weren’t fans of the scene, so it was taken out of the theatrical cut. The scene became available for public consumption for the first time when it was added as an extra on the 10th anniversary DVD.

10. SMITH GAVE A SHOUT-OUT TO HIS HIGH SCHOOL.

Brodie wore a Henry Hudson Regional High School shirt in the beginning of the movie. Smith and Jeff Anderson (Randal from the Clerks films) both graduated from Henry Hudson in 1988.

11. THERE ARE CONFLICTING STORIES ON SMITH’S DIRECTING TECHNIQUES.

Throughout rehearsals, Smith gave line readings to the actors, speaking their lines so that they could simply repeat them with his tone and inflection, as well as physically demonstrating how an actor should move around at times. Joey Lauren Adams found it shocking. Conversely, Smith apparently relaxed when it came time to film. Michael Rooker (Mr. Svenning) remembered Smith playing on his Game Boy instead of giving his movie his full attention.

12. WILLAM CALLING SHANNEN DOHERTY "BRENDA" WASN’T IN THE SCRIPT.

Ethan Suplee (Willam) and Doherty (Rene) completed a take of the scene before Smith walked over to Suplee and whispered to him to call her Brenda (as in Brenda Walsh, Doherty’s character from Beverly Hills, 90210 ). Suplee said he believed at the time she didn’t know it was coming , then later heard she might have.

13. DOHERTY’S FANS ALMOST CAUSED A RIOT.

Doherty let her bodyguard take the night off and went on a shopping excursion to a different Minnesota mall with Joey Lauren Adams and the movie’s costume designer. A group of fans flocked to Urban Outfitters, forcing an employee to lock the store’s front doors. Some fans kept chasing Doherty and her two companions in the parking lot before they managed to escape in their car.

14. WALTER FLANAGAN REALLY DID HAVE A DOG.

Walter Flanagan played Fan Boy. He purchased a tiny puppy during filming, named it Brodie, and let it run around the closed mall and its empty parking lot, where she ran around so fast that she “looked like a little hockey puck.” That is where Jay’s comment that someone was running “faster than Walt Flanagan’s dog” came from. "It was such an inside joke, I guess Kevin just decided to keep it," Flanagan said .

15. A SCENE MEANT FOR MALLRATS WAS DEEMED "TOO RACY" BY THE STUDIO.

“The Jaws scene,” where the characters compare scars , was originally in the Mallrats script. Smith shot it for Chasing Amy instead.

16. ETHAN SUPLEE DIDN’T SEE THE SAILBOAT.

Suplee never saw a sailboat , or a schooner, in the Magic Eye picture he spent the bulk of the movie staring at. Apparently, there never was one in the picture to begin with.

17. KEVIN SMITH APOLOGIZED FOR THE FILM.

He jokingly apologized for making Mallrats at the Independent Spirit Awards. On his office’s answering machine after the movie's poor showing in theaters, Lee recalled that Smith greeted callers by saying , “Hey, this is Kevin. We can't get to the phone right now. We're too busy licking our wounds.”

18. A SEQUEL IS GOING TO BE FILMED NEXT YEAR.

Mallbrats will be shot at the Exton Square Mall in Exton, Pennsylvania. All of the original cast is slated to return.

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Kevin Smith’s  follow-up to his name-making debut almost ruined him, but the 1995 box-office dud would acquire cult status and put a bunch of its actors on the map. The still underappreciated  Gen X  comedy  Mallrats  serves as a hilarious snapshot of a now almost nonexistent subculture lurking in a now almost nonexistent suburban consumer oasis. So grab some Orange Julius, avoid chocolate-covered pretzels and explore some non-monosyllabic facts about the movie that taught us to respect escalators...

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15 Jason Lee’s Breakout Film

Mallrats  would be the skater-turned-actor’s first major film. Lee would continue collaborating with Smith on a  string of other titles  — many involving Jay and Silent Bob.

14 On Casting Lee

Smith let Lee audition because Giovanni Ribisi’s mother, Hollywood talent manager Gay Ribisi, asked the casting director to give her daughter’s boyfriend (Lee) a chance. “So they brought Jason in, and he had a bag of Burger King with him; he was in the midst of eating a Whopper,” Smith  told  The Hollywood Reporter.  “So he’s digging into his Whopper, and I go, ‘Okay, so we think you’re it. You’re going to be Brodie.’ He stops eating momentarily, looks up with the widest eyes possible, and goes, ‘Yeah?’ and then instantly, he goes back into his Whopper as if I wasn’t there. That Whopper was just the most important thing in the world to him.”

13 Reese Witherspoon Wanted to Audition But Pissed Smith Off

“We’d been looking forward to Reese, but it never went past the meet and greet,” Smith told  Yahoo!  on the film’s  25th-anniversary interview.  “So Reese Witherspoon is talking about  Clerks , and she goes, ‘Oh, I was also in a convenience store movie,  S.F.W . It’s the same thing.’ That really fucking turned me off where I was like, ‘ S.F.W.  is not — that’s not  Clerks . Like, what? Like, you know — and that was kind of the deal breaker for us.”

12 Smith Didn’t Know Who Ben Affleck Was

“Jim Jacks, our producer, comes to me, and goes, ‘Ben Affleck’s coming in today,’” Smith said in the same interview. “I was like, ‘Who’s that?’ And he’s like, ‘He’s O’Bannion in  Dazed and Confused. ’ I was like, oh, shit, the asshole with the paddle and shit. He came in, of course, reading for T.S., and I was like, ‘I don’t think he’s T.S., but I like him. I think he could be Shannon Hamilton.’ Ben, right away, was just like, ‘Oh man, I gotta play the bully…’ He’s like, ‘You know, man, I just want to do good work in this business, but everyone sees me as a bully. And now I’m a guy who just wants to have butt sex.’”

11 A Box Office Dud

While the 1995 movie failed at the box office — released on October 20th, it  went up against   Get Shorty  and  Now and Then  — it became a home video cult classic. 

10 A Career Killer?

Smith thought the box-office bomb signaled the end of his career. “I remember I flew out to Los Angeles from New Jersey for the premiere,”  he has remembered , “and when I landed in L.A., there was a radio station, I think it was KROQ, and the DJ was between songs and said, ‘Hey, what are you up to this weekend? I saw a movie that’s coming out called  Mallrats . Boy, it was terrible.’ I was like, ‘Oh, my God. Well, hopefully, that’s just a one-off.’ Then I went to the opening night back in Jersey; it was something like an 8 p.m. show, half sold. The next morning, I spoke to Jim Jacks, our producer, to talk about box office numbers. I was like, ‘Alright, man, how did it do?’ He goes, ‘We did $400,000.’ I asked, ‘On what screen?’ and he goes, ‘That was all the screens. I don’t know if we’re going to make a million for the weekend.’ And that was it.”

9 The Origin of ‘Snootchie Bootchies’

What would become Jay’s signature catchphrase was first dropped in  Mallrats . Listen below as Smith explains how Jason Mewes came up with his go-to line as a young teen and turned it into his own language.

8 Jumping From ‘Clerks to ‘Mallrats’

“Before  Mallrats , I’d only made  Clerks , and that never played on more than 50 screens,” Smith told  Forbes.  “It had a real arthouse release, but it made $3 million, so everyone was happy.  Mallrats  was a movie that we spent $6.1 million to make, and it opened to $1 million. It grossed just over $2 million. I was like, ‘Do I owe Universal Pictures $4 million? Because I don’t have that.’ I didn’t know the rules of the business whatsoever.”

7 The Link Between ‘Mallrats’ and ‘Almost Famous’

In  Mallrats,  Lee’s character Brodie Bruce shares the story of a plane almost crashing and the doomed passengers using their final living moments to masturbate wildly. Of course, the plane lands safely, setting up a punchline for Brodie.

Lee would later star in Cameron Crowe’s  Almost Famous , which features a scene where confessions are spilled because everyone thinks they’re about to die in a plane crash. Smith said he and Crowe actually discussed the coincidence years later. 

“At one point, when I was dating Joey (Lauren) Adams, she was auditioning for  Almost Famous,  and she had mentioned that we were dating,” Smith told to the Hollywood Reporter.  “I was like, ‘Oh my God, would you give him my info?’ and then Cameron and I would email back and forth. I didn’t see it in the sides that Joey was auditioning with, but I was telling him, like, ‘My God, these sides are fantastic.’ But when I saw the movie, I hit him up to be like, ‘Oh my God, dude! The plane!’ And he goes, ‘Yeah! My Silent Bob finally talks!’ because that’s where the drummer (John Fedevich’s Ed Vallencourt), who’d been quiet the whole time, finally speaks. And I was like, Um, yes, but the whole ‘Let’s say things or do things as the plane is about to crash, and then the plane doesn’t crash at all’ thing was in  Mallrats ! And he goes, ‘Was it?’ So I guess great minds thought alike, but one did not inform the other.”

6 How Marvel Helped the Movie

During the  Yahoo!  interview, Smith revealed how  Stan Lee’s MCU cameos  brought  Mallrats  back into the pop-culture conversation. “We got this incredibly lucky break with the explosion of the Marvel Cinematic Universe because suddenly, a Stan Lee cameo became  de rigueur  for every one of those movies that made almost half a million to $1 billion,” Smith explained. “And anyone who had movie trivia was like, ‘Oh, he was in  Mallrats ,’ like, ‘Stan Lee was in — he did that cameo thing in  Mallrats .’”

5 Almost a Different Jay

While it’s hard to imagine any one other than Jason Mewes playing Jay, the actor was hardly a sure thing. During an  oral history  of the  Jay and Silent Bob phenomenon , Mewes said that he had to audition because the studio was forking out the cash and wanted to make sure they cast the right guy. “I did want him very badly, of course,” Smith explained. “Jay had to play Jay, but the studio was like, ‘He’s your friend. This is a funny role. It could go to a real actor.’ And so they made us audition a bunch of people, and I still felt like he’s the guy. They had him audition against other Jays. Seth Green was one of them. I wanted Jay for Jay, but the studio liked Seth Green and also (the guy he) does  Robot Chicken  with, Breckin Meyer. Breckin went on to be in  Clueless   and stuff. There were two guys that they were like, ‘These are the dudes that we want to play Jay.’” Mewes, however, blew everyone away, and that is how Silent Bob got his Jay.

4 Smith Likes the Theatrical Cut

The studio wanted a bigger opening to the movie, so an extended cut was produced, even though Smith wasn’t feeling it. “Any movie called  Mallrats  that takes 30 minutes to get to the mall is not functioning properly,” he told the Hollywood Reporter.  Smith added that the whole Governor’s Ball plot, where it’s explained why Svenning hates T.S. was a mistake. “I still prefer the theatrical cut; it makes more sense to me,” he admitted.

3 The Movie’s Cameo in ‘Captain Marvel’

“A high water mark of my vocation was Stan reading the  Mallrats  script in Captain Marvel,” Smith told  Yahoo! .   “Number one, the movie made over $1 billion, which means more people saw the word  Mallrats  in  Captain Marvel  than have ever seen  Mallrats  collectively maybe since the movie came out. Um, number two, that matters to me. You know, suddenly, in that moment, I was like, wow. Back in ’95, I shined and put a spotlight on him. In 2019, he returned the fucking favor.”

2 The Mockery

In his  Forbes  interview, Smith recalled how the terrible theatrical performance turned his film into a punchline. “Making the movie, I thought it might have a life; we even thought it would have a sequel,” he shared. “I was ready to go, and then  Mallrats  came out, and everything stopped. Nobody talked about it anymore. There was no talk of a sequel. They shunted it very quickly to home video before we can even do like a fat laserdisc release and stuff. It was ignominious. Then, for 10 years, it was the punchline of most of my jokes. I’d be like, ‘Well, what do I know? I made  Mallrats! ’ I was the whipping boy that year after being the flavor of the month, or even flavor of the year, with  Clerks . I was a cautionary tale like, ‘This is what happens when you give those Sundance kids money.’ It was hard.” 

Of course, given the film’s cult status, Smith got the last laugh.

1 Smith Did End Up Writing a Sequel

“Yeah.  Twilight of the Mallrats ,” Smith answered when  Rolling Stone  asked him if he was working on a sequel in 2022. “It’s been written for so fucking long. And it’s beautiful, if I do say so myself. Very heartfelt but also very multi-generational. Falls somewhere between  Jay and Silent Bob Reboot  and  Clerks III  in terms of how it deals with characters, legacy characters we all know and love. But it also deals with Brodie Bruce’s daughter, Banner Bruce. It’s primarily their story together and about how our culture that we knew as children is completely gone — dead mall, shit like that. So I absolutely love it. And I think anybody who likes  Mallrats  would love it as well.”

Smith and Lee read some of the script on a  SModcast  episode. You can listen to it  here.

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Kevin Smith’s debut feature Clerks inspired a generation of indie filmmakers to scrape together a budget for their own quirky little comedies. After Smith’s first movie became a hit at Sundance, he was able to secure a larger budget and backing from a big studio for his second.  Mallrats essentially transplanted the Clerks formula – a day in the lives of two pop culture-savvy guys discussing relationship problems – into a shopping mall.

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While Mallrats was nowhere near as critically acclaimed as Clerks , it has since been re-evaluated as a cult classic and it has a handful of its own memorable quotes.

“I Can’t Express Myself Monosyllabically Enough For You To Understand.” - Brodie Bruce

Before Ben Affleck was an A-list leading man, he played a couple of hilariously hateable supporting roles in cult comedies, like butt-paddling senior Fred O’Bannion in Dazed and Confused and, indeed, smarmy Fashionable Male proprietor Shannon Hamilton in Mallrats .

When Shannon asks love rival Brodie Bruce if he wants to say something, Brodie quips back, “Yeah, about a million things, but I can’t express myself monosyllabically enough for you to understand them all.” This is a perfect insult.

“You Should See Yourself Right Now: A Grown Man With His Hand Down His Pants.” - T.S. Quint

When T.S. needs to exact a little revenge, Brodie has an inventive but disgusting scheme to get payback. It involves sticking his hand down the back of his pants before a handshake with the target.

As he prepares the gambit, an embarrassed T.S. says, “You should see yourself right now: a grown man with his hand down his pants.” Brodie quips, “Yeah, I probably look like my old man.”

“You Dumb B******, It’s Not A Schooner, It’s A Sailboat!” - William Black

Ethan Suplee’s simple-minded supporting character William spends the entirety of Mallrats staring at a Magic Eye poster, trying to see the sailboat that everybody else is able to spot straight away.

When a little girl and boy look at the poster and the girl says, “Wow, it’s a schooner,” William fires back, “Ha-ha-ha! You dumb b******, it’s not a schooner, it’s a sailboat.” The little boy has a sharp rebuttal: “A schooner is a sailboat, stupid head!”

“What, Like The Back Of A Volkswagen?” - Various Characters

There’s a running gag throughout Mallrats that Shannon Hamilton likes to have sex “some place very uncomfortable.” Every time it’s mentioned to a character, they cluelessly think the uncomfortable place is the location of the sex act and ask the same question: “What, like the back of a Volkswagen?”

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The joke is paid off when Shannon’s sexual secrets are revealed to the entire audience of the game show and one of the game’s contestants asks the same Volkswagen question in front of the whole crowd.

“Adventure, Excitement... A Jedi Craves Not These Things.” - Silent Bob

It wouldn’t be a Kevin Smith movie without a healthy dose of Star Wars references . Clerks ’ Randal makes a hilarious point about the subcontractors who would’ve been killed in the destruction of the second Death Star, while the heroes of Zack & Miri Make a Porno attempt to self-finance and produce an adult parody of the George Lucas classic.

Silent Bob spends the whole of Mallrats trying to use the Force to lift a cigarette into his mouth. When he finally speaks, he quotes Luke’s wise master Yoda: “Adventure, excitement... a Jedi craves not these things.”

“Hasn’t It Become Abundantly Clear During The Tenure Of Our Friendship That I Don’t Know S***?” - Brodie Bruce

Oftentimes, the ones who are the most confident in what they say are the ones with no real point to make. When Brodie learns that T.S. actually listened to something he said and took it onboard, he’s taken aback.

As Brodie sees it, his track record should’ve told T.S. that something was amiss: “You’re gonna listen to me? To something I said? Hasn’t it become abundantly clear during the tenure of our friendship that I don’t know s***?”

“The Customer Is Always An A******!” - Shannon Hamilton

When T.S. asks Shannon if he’s familiar with the phrase, “The customer is always right,” Shannon contests its logic: “Let me tell you something. Let me give you a little secret, okay? The customer is always an a******!”

This line is relatable to anybody who’s ever worked in retail (like Smith himself, who used to work in the Quick Stop convenience store where Clerks takes place).

“He Seems To Be Really Hung Up On Superhero Sex Organs.” - Stan Lee

Stan Lee cameos in Mallrats at a crucial juncture to give Brodie some timely relationship advice: “Do yourself a favor, Brodie: don’t wait. Because all the money, all the women, even all the comic books in the world, they can’t substitute for that one person.”

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Despite this profound wisdom, Brodie’s first questions upon meeting his idol are whether Mr. Fantastic can stretch his penis and whether the Thing’s genitals are made of rock. A concerned Lee later tells T.S., “I think you ought to get him some help. He seems to be really hung up on superhero sex organs.”

“Snootchie Bootchies!” - Jay

The reappearance of Jay and Silent Bob in Mallrats connected Kevin Smith’s second movie to his first and began the stoner duo’s long-running tenure as the heart and soul of the View Askewniverse. Mallrats established Jay’s nonsensical but unforgettable catchphrase: “Snootchie bootchies!”

Jay’s proudest moment as a father in Jay & Silent Bob Reboot is when his estranged daughter Milly adopts his catchphrase. He uses the line a few times in Mallrats , but the funniest is after hitting LaFours with a baseball bat and crying out, “Come, son of Jor-El! Kneel before Zod! Snootchie bootchies!”

“You F****** Think Just Because A Guy Reads Comics, He Can’t Start Some S***!?” - Brodie Bruce

The character of Brodie Bruce is a departure from stereotype in that he’s a nerd obsessed with comics who’s also confident and outspoken. Whenever he feels threatened, he becomes brash and obnoxious, which Jason Lee plays up brilliantly.

After getting into an altercation with a fellow mallrat who looks down on his superhero fandom, Brodie yells at them, “You f****** think just because a guy reads comics, he can’t start some s***!?” Now that the MCU’s success has brought comic book obsession into the mainstream, this quote has aged well.

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Scramble to find survivors after Bayesian yacht sinks off Sicily coast

A rescue operation is ongoing for 6 missing people, including british entrepreneur mike lynch. an american was also among the missing..

One person died and six people were missing after a luxury yacht sank Monday in Italy off the coast of Palermo, the capital of Sicily, after a sudden storm hit the area, according to Italy's coast guard.

The Bayesian, a 184-feet-long, British-registered sailboat, went down just before sunrise, capsizing its 22 passengers and killing one man, the ship's cook, t he coast guard said in a statement. On Monday, rescue teams identified the body as Antiguan citizen Ricardo Thomas.

Of the 15 passengers rescued, eight were taken to a local hospital for treatment and were in stable condition, local news reported. A 1-year-old was among those rescued.

"We are providing consular support to a number of British nationals and their families following an incident in Sicily and are in contact with the local authorities," the U.K Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said in a statement emailed to USA TODAY.

The people missing were American, British, and Canadian nationals.

What caused the Bayesian to sink?

The ship sank after unexpectedly strong storms recently dumped heavy rainfall, causing flooding and landslides, in parts of the country. Among those missing are British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, and his daughter, a person familiar with the rescue operation told Reuters.

Jonathan Bloomer, chairman of Morgan Stanley International, and Chris Morvillo, a lawyer at Clifford Chance who represented Lynch in a  U.S. trial , were among the missing. The wives of both men were also unaccounted for, said Salvatore Cocina, head of civil protection in Sicily.

"The fear is that the bodies got trapped inside the vessel," he told Reuters.

The yacht was owned by Lynch's family and had 22 people on board when it sank just before sunrise. The captain of a nearby ship told Reuters his crew rescued some survivors from a life raft, including three seriously injured.

"We managed to keep the ship in position and after the storm was over, we noticed that the ship behind us was gone," Karsten Borner said. The other boat "went flat on the water, and then down," he said.

"A little baby and the wife of the owner" were rescued, while the ship's owner and a child were missing, he said.

The boat was located 160 feet under the water and divers were deployed to inspect the wreck, according to the coast guard.

The search-and-rescue operation continued on Monday morning, a Reuters live feed showed . A helicopter and four coast guard ships were at the scene on Monday morning, according to the coast guard.

Bayesian had set sail off Amalfi Coast in July

Prosecutors in a nearby town have opened an investigation into the events leading up to the ship sinking.

The Bayesian set off for Palermo from Positano, a village on Italy's southern Amalfi Coast, on July 30, according to marinetraffic.com . It last docked in the town of Milazzo, in Messina, on Wednesday, according to VesselFinder.

The ship has the tallest aluminum mast in the world, according to Perini Navi , its manufacturer. It was built in 2008.

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Explorers say they’ve found a British warship sunk by a German U-boat in WWI

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Part of the wreckage of the HMS Hawke is seen in the waters off Scotland's coast. Simon Kay/Lost In Waters Deep hide caption

Explorers say they’ve found the wreckage of a British warship that was sunk by a German U-boat during World War I.

Some 524 people, including the ship’s captain, perished when the HMS Hawke went down in the North Sea off the eastern coast of Scotland on Oct. 15, 1914. Seventy crew members survived .

“It’s a big loss of life,” said Kevin Heath, who co-founded the website Lost in Waters Deep , which chronicles naval losses around Scotland by the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy and other countries during the conflict. “She’s a big ship. And it’s one of the first ships lost in World War I.”

A shipwreck hunter, Heath said he found a map in an old German logbook that pointed him to where the sunken vessel could be located, roughly 70 miles east of Fraserburgh.

The nearly 400-foot ship had been taking part in the Allied blockade of Germany when it was torpedoed and sunk in the early days of World War I.

Earlier this month, Heath teamed up with a group of divers called the Gasperados and set out on the dive vessel Clasina in search of the Hawke. While the divers descended more than 350 feet below sea level, Heath waited on the boat.

British warship HMS Hawke is seen circa 1910. It was used as a converted depot ship for destroyers and submarines during World War I and sunk by a German submarine in the North Sea on Oct. 15, 1914. Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption

“We’re sitting there waiting, waiting, waiting. Excited. You know, are they going to say, ‘oh it is a rock’ or ‘it’s not the Hawke’?” he said. “They all come up and say, ‘yeah, there are guns everywhere and the wreck is in very, very good condition.’ ”

Some of the wood on the deck was still intact, the divers recounted. The team quickly reported the discovery to the U.K. Hydrographic Office and the Royal Navy, which Heath hopes will give the site a protected status.

“We appreciate the efforts to locate the wreck of HMS Hawke (1891),” a Royal Navy spokesperson said in a statement. “Once the evidence to support this find is received, it will enable our historians to formally identify the wreck.”

Heath said he’ll write about the history of the Hawke as well as profiles of the victims for his website in the coming weeks. After the BBC published a story about the discovery, he said he received around 30 emails from family members of sailors who died on the ship, telling their stories and sharing photographs.

Heath said he’ll also continue to search for other wrecks, though he counts the discovery of the Hawke as one of his more noteworthy finds.

“We’ve got a few wrecks that we’re still looking for,” he said. “I don’t think anything will top finding the HMS Hawke. There’s nothing like that to find now in Scotland."

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Final Body Is Recovered From Yacht That Sank Off Sicily

Hannah Lynch, the 18-year-old daughter of the British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, was on board a yacht that was hit by a storm and went down in the early hours on Monday.

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Emma Bubola reported from Porticello, Italy, and Elisabetta Povoledo from Pallanza, Italy.

For nearly a week after a violent storm sent a luxury yacht to the bottom of the sea off the coast of Sicily, Italian scuba divers plunged deep underwater, moving through ropes and fallen objects inside the yacht in a desperate search for the six people missing.

On Friday, the recovery of the body of Hannah Lynch, 18, put an end to the wrenching search and to the slim hopes that any of the missing people might have survived.

Ms. Lynch, the daughter of the British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, who also died in the yacht’s sinking, was the last person to be formally unaccounted for since Monday after tragedy struck a group that had been celebrating her father’s acquittal in a high-profile fraud case.

There were 10 crew members and 12 passengers on board the 180-foot vessel, the Bayesian, when it was hit by a storm and went down about 4.30 a.m. on Monday, the boat’s management company said on Friday.

Fifteen survived.

The body of the ship’s cook, Recaldo Thomas, was found on Monday, a few hours after a downpour hit the northwestern coast of Sicily, near the port of Porticello, where the yacht had been anchored.

But it took several days to recover the bodies of the six passengers who were apparently trapped inside the yacht: Mr. Lynch and Ms. Lynch; Jonathan Bloomer, the chairman of Morgan Stanley International; his wife, Judy Bloomer; Christopher J. Morvillo, a lawyer at Clifford Chance; and his wife, Neda Morvillo.

On Friday, a round of applause could be heard from the firefighter’s tent set up on the dock in Porticello after the last body was pulled out in what the corps described as a “complex” search operation at a depth of about 165 feet. The firefighters said they had made 123 immersions into the sea to try to retrieve the bodies.

The body bag was then loaded onto an ambulance. A local man had left a small wooden cross on the rocks in front of the dock where the bodies were brought ashore.

Mr. Lynch’s wife, Angela Bacares, was among those who managed to reach the safety of a raft. They were rescued by a sailing schooner that had been bobbing about 150 yards from the yacht.

In a statement, the family thanked the search teams and said that it was enduring a “time of unspeakable grief.”

“The Lynch family is devastated, in shock and is being comforted and supported by family and friends,” the statement added.

As prosecutors from the nearby city of Termini Imerese began conducting interviews with the survivors and possible witnesses, the crew and passengers of the Bayesian have been confined to a local hotel, where the news media have been denied access.

Salvatore Cocina, the head of Sicily’s civil protection agency, said on Thursday that the survivors had turned down the psychological assistance his department had offered to them.

In Porticello, the sprawling presence of rescue services made a haunting backdrop for an otherwise tranquil port town. People sunbathed and ate ricotta-filled pastries, and stores selling sandals and dried fruit opened as normal, while coast guard and firefighting vessels came and went from the shore, taking scuba divers out to the shipwreck.

Other reminders of the tragedy could be seen along the coast, among palm trees and ice cream shops, with groups of onlookers staring out at the sea, now tranquil and flat.

Local and national news organizations have complained that prosecutors have not issued a statement or held a news conference. Prosecutors may shed more light on the yacht’s sinking when they hold a news conference on Saturday.

The marine accident investigation branch of the British transportation ministry was also looking into the shipwreck of the vessel, which was registered in Britain.

One of the major questions is what caused the boat to sink: Was it the fault of the boat maker, of the crew or of a powerful act of nature — or some combination of the three? None of those who were onboard the Bayesian have spoken publicly.

The luxury yacht, built by the Italian manufacturer Perini Navi and launched in 2008, had the second-tallest aluminum mast in the world, according to its makers.

Giovanni Costantino, the chief executive of the Italian Sea Group, which in 2022 bought Perini Navi, has been assertive in defending the design and construction of the yacht, saying that the Bayesian would be “unsinkable” if the proper procedures were followed.

But yacht design experts have cautioned that the lesson of the Titanic, the ocean liner that sank on its 1912 maiden voyage, showed that no vessel, no matter how robust, was worthy of that label.

Nautilus International, a maritime-focused labor union, criticized any implication that the crew had been at fault, especially at this stage. In a statement , the union’s general secretary, Mark Dickinson, said, “Experience tells us that maritime tragedies are always the result of multiple, interconnected factors,” and he urged people to refrain from drawing any conclusions until a thorough investigation had been carried out.

The investigation into the causes will take months, prosecutors said.

Michael J. de la Merced contributed reporting.

Emma Bubola is a Times reporter based in Rome. More about Emma Bubola

Elisabetta Povoledo is a reporter based in Rome, covering Italy, the Vatican and the culture of the region. She has been a journalist for 35 years. More about Elisabetta Povoledo