Great Movie, But Huge Plot Hole...

This was our first time seeing the movie, and we used closed captioning so as not to miss a detail...after reading your post, we thought that perhaps the closed captioning had mistakenly written "head" for the spoken word "hat". However, upon further thought, it seemed ludicrous that Bill, in his rush to take the body out of the hotel room to dispose of it, would place Steve's hat on his head--Steve obviously was not wearing his hat in bed. If he had put Steve's hat on his head, the hat would have fallen off long before Bill threw him from the bridge. We were shocked and disturbed when Bill (or the closed captioning) said that Steve had lost his head, but even Patrice's facial expression would indicate that he had lost more than just his hat. The whole hat thing just does not seem to fly (no pun intended). The hat simply couldn't have stayed on Steve's head with all of the upside-down, thrown-around motions that dead Steve had gone through. Indeed, the severing of a dead man's head as he was being disposed of does seem beyond what theater-goers at that time could have handled. It was all too horrible, even for us! But if you are sure it was Steve's hat, we will simply have to deal with it. :)

Ok. We had time to go back to see not only the hat on dead Steve's head, but to crank up the volume when Bill did indeed say "hat". lol Understandable though it is that the closed caption guys got it wrong by writing "head"--we checked the closed captioning, too!--we have to credit them by adding to our cinematic experience by putting horror into what would otherwise have been a much-tamer drama. We still think that there was no real probability that that hat would have stayed on dead Steve's head all the way from the hotel room to the bridge, when he was upside-down so much of the time. Bill must have crammed that hat so hard on dead Steve's head that there would have been, in real-life, a much greater possibilty of that head coming off as it tumbled into the ditch, due to a previously broken neck! We were able, on close examination, to see the hat come off of dead Steve's head as he, or should we say Dummy Steve, was whipped over the railing. This is a most cautionary tale, that one ill-chosen word can make ALL the difference!