How did Papillon end up on the beach in a decent situation after being shot with blowgun darts and falling down into some sort of river?
I felt those scenes lacked continuity and left me a bit confused. Did I miss something?
That whole portion of the movie from when they land on the beach to the point where he is shot by the blowguns doesn't add up. Any insight?
You win the prize for calling the movie on its biggest bs moment. I also did not understand anything that happened in that section of the movie or why the natives suddenly "move on" and vanish.
shareWhen a movie is cut about it usually leaves people missing connecting points. Ok firstly the indians with blow pipes are man hunters/trackers and are paid by the military to hunt down criminal escapees.the second is when Papillon falls into the river he is washed downstream and is found on the shore by the natives, they take him to their village and as you see they treat him well but they are a nomadic tribe and they dont remain in one place and they cant take him with them so they leave him with pearls for his journey.
shareThat whole sequence could have used another scene of him being washed downstream and the natives pulling him out of the river.
Also, apparently the poison in the blow darts wasn't lethal, and was probably just a drug that knocked him out when he fell in the river. Which means he was unconscious for the whole deal.
Limit of the Willing Suspension of Disbelief: directly proportional to its awesomeness.
Those guys didn't look NA or Indian to me, they looked African while the idyllic beach scene looked like NA natives with a few mixed African children.
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