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The Bullet in the Mailbox was lame


A huge flaw in an otherwise good movie. A multi-billion dollar international corporation would pull something as juvenile as stick a bullet in his mailbox. The thought of high price corporate lawyers sitting around a boardroom and someone saying "I know lets put a bullet in his mail box!" is a little incredulous. Now when Jeff was having his moment where he spoke of the Office Building floors are dark at night except the floor that had the legal division, that to me was more frightening. Think about it, an entire legal team of a huge corporation that works morning, noon, and night to just think of legal ways to stick it to you? The warrant for his arrest for violating the non-disclosure agreement was a very good example of using the lawyers the corporation hired to get you. The bullet in the mailbox; not so much.

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Exactly. If I found a bullet in the mailbox I'd be like "sweet! free bullet!".

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The bullet in the mailbox wasn't to flex their legal power, you idiot. It was sending him a clear message of "we will kill you".

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You are a deep thinker.

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Apparently the FBI believed Wigand fabricated the threats against himself. I don't know if he claims to have received a bullet in the mail in real life, but that could be the explanation.

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No, they didn’t.
Watch it again and pay attention this time.

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I don't need to watch the movie again, because I was talking about real life. Pay attention.

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The FBI didn’t “believe” any such thing. The two agents were under a supervisor in bed with B&W as a previous private security hire, which Bergman confronted his FBI contact over. The investigation was a farce.

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Sure, that's what you BELIEVE...

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Should have been two bullets.

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I read somewhere that the real Lowell Bergman and others thought that Wigand put the bullet in the mailbox himself, and possibly exaggerated the other death threats to him and his family. Wigand himself, as far as I am aware, has always stood by his version of events.

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