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Man with electric wire???

posted 16 years ago by clclouse
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I don't know if this has been posted before, but what is the deal with the guy with the wire that came down into the Dittmeyer's driveway and he told Cindy not to let anyone touch it? He acted so strange! Was there some deleted scene that would explain this? I've scene it on dvd and on tv and that was the only time he was shown.

[–] discobiscuit714 16 years ago

I'm pretty sure that was it. It just set up the part when Dittmeyer gets zapped.

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[–] 16 years ago

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[–] Child_OfThe_Moon 16 years ago

Yeah, he was kinda strange. I thought he looked like Al Pacino as well.

[–] clclouse 16 years ago

Yeah, I thought it was kind of strange to do all that for just a joke about Mr. Dittmeyer getting shocked. I just wondered why the guy was so weird, he played the part really strange, like I said before almost as if he were up to something bad. And why would you tell a little girl not to let anyone touch the wire and then just leave? Like you can trust a 7 year old with that! I know it's just a movie but that part was just really weird and unnecessary.

[–] qme4good 16 years ago

i haven't seen this in a while but didn't he have a lisp like cindy?

[–] stevenackerman69 15 years ago

Yes, he did. I happened to catch some of the film again last night and noticed that.

[–] stevenackerman69 15 years ago

Well, Dittmeyer was the villain of the movie, remember? He deserved to get shocked. And the wire man figured he could trust Cindy to watch the wire and make sure nobody would touch it. He wasn't going to Russia to get something out of his truck.

[–] alicia-angel92 16 years ago

I'm not sure..I thought it was weird too...but I think he was supposed to have a lisp like Cindy, and when he asks to her watch the wire, and she replies "of course!" with her lisp, he thinks she is mocking his lisp. I think that's why he acts weird..because he thinks Cindy is making fun of him.

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[–] stevenackerman69 15 years ago

He had to go to his truck to get something to help him pick it up. He asked Cindy to stay there and warn people not to touch it. Dittmeyer sees her and tells her to leave and doesn't let her explain why she is there. Then he sees the wire and thinks it is a jump rope of hers and picks it up to throw it at her and he gets shocked.

[–] jrsl88 14 years ago

Wanna know something funny? I didn't know that until I saw the film again.

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