Lewis Payne - Nightwatch (1998) Discussion

[–] scarlet79 19 years ago

* The black and white picture of the guy on death row in the cabin is the same one used in the original version of this movie (Nattevagten (1994)).
* The photograph on the bulletin board at the guard desk that Martin notices when he shows up for his first shift and asks the old watchman about, is a famous photo of Lewis Thornton Powell (also known as Lewis Paine or Lewis Payne), a conspirator with John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln.

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[–] someone_somewhere 19 years ago

**SPOILERS**

More important, why was the picture there.

My take on it is that Lewis Payne represents the killer in the mind. Kinda hard to explain. Lewis Payne had a bad childhood and my guess it that the killer also had a bad childhood and that's why he has some neucophilic tendencies (to put it mildly).

And so castles made of sand, fall in the sea, eventually. (Jimi Hendrix)

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[–] baudelairesmuse 17 years ago

Fascinating photo. So old and yet so contemporary.

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[–] Devans00 16 years ago

The trippy thing to me about the photo is that it looked like a magazine ad or something. Just update dude's hair a little bit.

No two persons ever watch the same movie.

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[–] luke19 16 years ago

What about the photo is creepy to you?

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[–] intermissiontime 16 years ago

The way Payne appears to be looking back at you from the photo is what`s creepy.

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[–] Theo87 16 years ago

i think the audience is supposed to assume that cray put the picture up back in the 60's when he was the night watchman. he probably was fascinated with people who were a bit deranged like him.

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[–] maxcardwell02 9 years ago

Yes, because the old Watchman said it had always been there!

You will have to speak up, I am wearing a towel

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[–] BlazerKL24 15 years ago

Geeze, I didn't know that it was a picture from back from the 1800s. In the movie I thought it was from the 50s or something, but not in the 19th century. I did some research on the guy afterwards and I just find it to be absolutely and incredibly amazing with that picture!

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[–] rugbyspelaren-2 12 years ago

If you look closer, you see that the "Lewis Payne-picture" has a lot of resemblance to Peter Wormer, the killer. It´s probably and old photo of him.

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[–] schmidtkenn11 11 years ago

Who the HELL is Peter Wormer?!? There's no Peter Wormer in this film!!!

"He carries illegal weapons, drives fast cars & wears clothes obviously designed by a homosexual."

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[–] rugbyspelaren-2 11 years ago

In the original movie the name of the police inspector was Wormer/Wörmer.

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