Did anyone else notice this part? When they were discussing who could have kidnapped the ex-first lady. And one of them gives the speech that it was middle-eastern terrorists that must have done it. When he leaves the room the others laugh at his theory. Like what middle-eastern terrorists, that's ridiculous. Now days it would be considered highly plausible.
shareMy favorite "times have changes moment" from this movie is when they are at a gas station and the price of gas is $1.09!!! Boy times have changed!
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I know that's right, chupples! I noticed that, too, and had to laugh. I have paid as little as 87 centavos for a gallon of gas, but that a long, long, long, long, long time ago! God save us!
sharei think in die hard they have gas at 87 cents a gallon, well 80 something if i remember right.
sharei think in die hard they have gas at 87 cents a gallon, well 80 something if i remember right
Thank God SC usually has the cheapest gas in America. I spend my time in Columbia and just south of Charlotte where gas is 2.84.
share$2.79 here in Jersey today, not that that's anything to celebrate. We do have the lowest state gas tax in the country.
share$2.79 here in Jersey today, not that that's anything to celebrate
Well, I got you all beat. I can remember putting $5 in a Lincolns tank and that filled it up!!
shareyou guys should live in the UK - almost the most expensive petrol in the world - they sell it by the litre [1 gallon = 4.546 litres] and it's now £1 sterling per litre!
sharethe average gas price is $3.49 now guys, just 7 years later! how ya feelin now?
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Actually it was making the point that the area they lived in was whiter than white. Even arabs with not much darker skin would have stood out to what I'm guessing was a gated community with 911 on their speed dial. But yeah times have changed, these days they'd probably send out crack troops and a news team if someone reported Arabs roaming their housing complex.
shareThink of what cell phones would have done to this film. At one point, Tess takes off in the car, leaving Cage behind with no transportation, and he has to walk for two hours to get to a gas station to use a phone to inform his men what happened.
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They had cell phones in 1994, not as many as they do know though. The guy who comes and picks Doug up has one. Times have changed, now every has a cell phone especially if you are driving any where.
Early in the movie, Doug himself was using a cell phone while talking to the local police who were laughing at him for losing a senior citizen.
shareYes, I know cell phones existed at this time, but they weren't prevalent enough yet to assume everyone had one (and they didn't), hence the situation I already mentioned.
So it shows, like the thread topic states, times have changed.
I paid under 30 cents a gallon when I started driving. And the oil companies wete lucky to get that much. We need to take over all the oil and enslave those Arabs who resist.
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If you watch the actual movie, they don't scoff at the concept of Middle Eastern terrorists doing the kidnapping, they scoff at the notion of Middle Eastern terrorists running around a small Ohio farm community for months without attracting some attention. And despite the presence of Arab-American communities in some parts of the country, this is still true. A better example of "times have changed" is when Doug is torturing the chauffeur in the hospital and his superior shouts "Stop it, Doug. We're the good guys! We don't do this!"
sharemuslim nutballs wouldn't just stop at kidnapping
Oh, yes. Terrorists would not bother with kidnapping. They would strap a body bomb to her, carve her guts out, remove her genitals, behead her and display her head on a pole. Oh, how I long for simpler times of just a plain good old-fashioned kidnapping.
Indeed, farce is passe.
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One other thing is that today we have social media, a crass culture, and information leaks. I don't see how, even with Tess' influence, they could have ever prevented vulgar news outlets from revealing that her Secret Service detail have been so inept as to have "lost" Tess on a few occasions, the last of which led to her kidnapping.
shareBut that's not really what happens in the scene -- the first thing everyone thinks is actually that it's Islamic terrorists.
But Tess's agents later privately comment that there's no way a bunch of Middle Easterners or foreigners could have been hanging around in their tiny town without drawing some kind of notice. That's the part they find hard to believe.
So it's not that they think terrorists is a ridiculous idea, it's that they think that, logistically, they would have been noticed.
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