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I found this complete guide to the Donnie Darko website. Its a bit long but it gives you access to the whole site. Has anyone got any further than this?
Okay, you get to the site by going to www.donniedarko.com and a couple of windows open. One is an IFC window with a trailer and playdates. The other starts the site and has a TV image of Donnie with his hand held up.
Move your mouse arrow over the target on his hand and the words "i can do anything i want" appear. Click the target and you'll see Frank for a second followed by the words "and so can you".
Then on the main screen a clock tells you how long ago the "Tangent Universe" collapsed. Click the word in red to "proceed" to the site.
A prompt window will appear offering to allow you to enter the code word to access level one. If you want to miss out on some cool graphics, by all means, the password is "sparrow". But you can also click "otherwise proceed here" below.
By making the second choice you will see Donnie in his famous hooded sweater and a graphic will grow out of his chest and flow across the screen to show the title logo. There will be a dissolve and then the cautionary words "Pay close attention to the screen. You could miss
something." The next graphic is a report on Donnie's "escape attempt" from Clearview Juvenile Detention Center. Click the page and an affidavit detailing the "escape" will superimpose over the image.
Type "y" to proceed. "N" doesn't do anything, I checked.
You will then get to read the rest of the report and should type "y" again which will take you to the main navigation page.
Allow your mouse to drift over the red crosses on the right to illuminate the words "everybody dies alone". These will also bring up red navigation text so you can access the three levels. Each will say that the level is active and will also change the black floating text in the background. The text is a random mix of the words "Pay close attention to the screen. You could miss something. There's something
I want you to see."
Click the red level one cross where the word dies appears. A graphic will appear with a skeleton along with the words "things aren't that simple". Take your mouse to the upper left corner of the screen where the next red cross is and as your arrow drifts over it the words "she died alone..." will drift into place.
A copy of the December 29th, 1988 Middlesex Times Dispatch Obituary column will appear in a new window giving the details of Roberta Sparrow's death and another obituary for Sarah Walters.
Back on the main page you'll find a new red cross with the floating words "let no one know I gave you this". Clicking that cross will bring up another newspaper article detailing the death of Dr. Monitoff which offers the interesting tidbit that he had a wife and two children.
A new cross will appear bearing the legend "a guide in a time of great danger". Clicking it will partially open a letter, but first you'll need the password. "Her name was that of a bird" is the clue, and if you haven't guessed already, the answer is "sparrow" as in Roberta Sparrow, a.k.a. Grandma Death. Click the astrix to type the
code.
This will open the letter the rest of the way. Once you've read the letter, click it for the next page which asks the disarming question "Do you believe in time travel?" Clicking here brings up a shadow image of Frank and three windows each with one word in them; "remember", "one", and "word". Closing any of these will bring up another window with the word to remember. That word is ways "smurf" in my experience.
Closing the "smurf" window will take you further along to a
new Donnie graffic. On the left hand side is, you guessed it, a red cross. Clicking it opens a window with a snip of footage showing Donnie's dad in the car. Click his dad and another snippet of footage from the same scene appears (hi, Donnie). Click the new window and yet another view from this scene shows up (from the backseat). Click that window and four new small windows open up showing a complete
image of Grandma Death telling Donnie that every living creature dies alone. Click Grandma Death (lower right window) and the windows disappear and her quote blacks out most of the background. The cover of the time travel book should now appear. (There seem to be a lot of
glitches with this page so hope for the best and don't click
anything if you don't know what it is.)
A pop-up will appear prompting you to enter the code for the next stage. Type the word smurf into this pop-up and four new pop-up windows with smurf images will show up. Click any one of the four smurfs for the code to level two "breathe" which is inside the letter from Donnie to Grandma Death. We heard all this text in the movie but
only now get to see the letter. Click the word "breathe".
Here you are given a choice between level 2 and reading for clues to level 3. Take the latter choice by closing the window. Navigate the book by clicking the red crosses at the left and the images at the right will change. Hold your mouse over the page to illuminate each passage.
To go on to level two click your back button and follow the preceding steps again until you get the prompt to proceed to level two. Go ahead and do this now that you've checked out the book. You will be back at the main navigation page. Click the far right cross for level 2, and remember, the password is "breathe".
Click the large red cross here and you'll be on the golf course. A small red dot brings together the floating text "don't be a prisoner of fear". By clicking this dot you will happily get to read about how Jim Cunningham bought the farm, unfortunately without any evidence
coming out about his penchant for kiddie porn. A new red dot is on the links. The floating text this time tells you to "wake up, Donnie!" Click that dot and Donnie and Jim and the doctor will appear on the course. The floating text on the dr. and J.C. will ask you to "place an x on the lifeline". Clicking the golfers brings up a
chalkboard and television along with some instructions. Please follow them and use your mouse to drag the chalk across the board to answer the questions. It's a pity that you cannot proceed by refusing to do this admittedly stupid and pointless exercise. The correct answers are both on the "fear" side of the lifeline, by the way.
Donnie's great speech about the stupidity of the assignment
follows. Click the television screen to see a rendering of Frank and click the screen again and the window will fill with pop-ups of Frank each with a letter of the sentence "wake up, Donnie". Click any one of the windows and we're back on the golf course. This time hold your mouse over Donnie for the floating message "do you think he was sleepgolfing?"
Click Donnie this time and watch him wake up. A graffic will come out of his right eye and terminate in a white arrow. Click the arrow for the next question "Who found the wallet?" Now you're right if you answer Donnie, but the answer they're looking for is from the exercise you just completed. Ling found the wallet according to Jim
Cunningham, so type "ling" here for a clip and a dissolve to
the next screen.
Some weird red lines appear and one of them ends with a tiny red dot. Click the dot to read another issue of the Middlesex Times. Back on the main screen there isn't much going on. A few little dots and right angles, just click anywhere and a graffic of the scene where Donnie finds the wallet appears. Click the flashing red wallet.
Donnie bends down to pick it up and you'll see Jim
Cunningham's driver's license picture; what a dork! Hold your pointer over the blacked out lines at the bottom of the license to find out where he lives. Click his address and the coolest grafic of all starts. Six windows appear at the upper right. Click any one of them. Another clip will start in the upper left. Click that one too. You will receive the instruction "Burn it down, Donnie."
Now you should be back at the main navigation window. Time for level 3. Click the leftmost red cross and you will be prompted to enter the name of "the street he lives in like the flower". Despite the bad grammar type the word "rose" here.
A new grafic appears of the FAA guys and some text telling you when and where the accident occurred. Click on the address and a clip of the chandelier will pop up. Click the chandelier and you will have another newspaper article about the crash to read with a link at the bottom to another article. Read them both, return to the main page,
and click "okay" on the spoiler warning. Click the
telephone/text icon on the chandelier. Read the info in the new text window then click "launch the document". What follows once you click it is a audio/text version of a phone call from a tech guy at Heathrow airport to the mysterious FAA guy who we see following Donnie around
through most of the movie (if you don't believe me about this guy watch it again and look for a fat guy smoking in a red running suit).
Okay, this is the part where everybody (including me) gets stuck. Once the phone call runs out, so does Donnie's (your) time according to a prompt at the right side of the screen. Now what is it that we are supposed to do during the call? I've found that the text of the phone call can be altered, but I don't know if that is part of what you are supposed to do.
Some thoughts:
1) Fill in the edited parts of the phone text?
2) Delete certain parts?
3) Add extraneous text?
The problem with number one is finding the correct answers. Who is this guy from Heathrow? What's the name of the FAA guy? What kind of plane has an engine like that? Are their names on the list of the living at the back of the time travel book? (I don't think so, but I'll have to look.)
The problem with number two is… what parts? I've tried
deleting one side of the conversation and then the other. I've even deleted it all as it appeared. Nothing seems to work along those lines.
Number three is a bigger problem. What text could you add, and where? Also, when do you add it? There seem to be no easy solutions.
Perhaps there are no solutions easy or otherwise. Maybe like the open-ended nature of the film itself the website means to end where it does and gives no easy answers. Kind of like life. |
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