Stealing the couple`s clothes - Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (2000) Discussion

[–] 14 years ago

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Why didnt he just buy a suit. He had money enough.

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Why is it that people sometimes have to ask so goddamn stupid questions?

Why did he steal the couple's clothes? Because he fu***ng felt like it! It's a movie guys.

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[–] truehammer 14 years ago

Its not really stupid, in fact I'd say its a pretty legitimate question, some things have to make sense otherwise it can ruin a films enjoyment. I think someone answered it though, he took the suit to appear like a businessman when he carried out the attack on the mafiosos and he took the womans clothes to stop her running away and getting help although I'm not certain.

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[–] populairehans 14 years ago

It also was dark so the stores were probably closed.

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[–] tygrlilie 14 years ago

i thought he took the woman's dress because he had some vague idea about giving it to the girl.

can't remember what gave me that idea... have to go watch the movie again.

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[–] lottespam700 13 years ago

It's not about money or the possesion of thing. It's about the way you gain them, in the way of the samurai.

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[–] peti_b_2000 14 years ago

he prolly did it so he can get rid of the clothes quickly after the hit is done , buying clothes from a store is more risky since the people working there would prolly get a better look at you and might be able to identify you in case of a police investigation whereas in this case he lead the couple in a dark alley where they really couldn't tell the police much about him other then it was a ''black man with a gun''

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[–] ninjajack 13 years ago

"It is good to carry some powdered rouge in one's sleeve. It may happen that when one is sobering up or waking from sleep, a samurai's complexion may be poor. At such a time it is good to take out and apply some powdered rouge"

I think this quote explains why Ghost Dog did this. The suit was his powdered rouge, it improved his proverbial complexion. Meaning that people perceived him differently as opposed to a guy dressed like a gangster. This was why he was able to get away with stealing the licence plates so easily because the family do not perceive a man in a suit to be someone who is a criminal.

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[–] Limeginger 12 years ago

exactly!

as well as some of the other answers above -- it was a somewhat spontaneous decision to get the clothes (aka rouge), it was night so stores closed, the man seemed to be kind of sleazy--fat old dude with a thin beautiful young woman--deserved to have something taken from him, and he took the girl's dress so she couldn't run and get help immediately.

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[–] london777 8 years ago

"sleazy...fat old dude with a thin beautiful young woman ...deserved to have something taken from him"
LOL. Jealous, or what?

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[–] filmfanaticNorCal 8 years ago

"A fat old dude". A fat old white dude is what you mean. THis was a racist movie in so far as every white guy deserved to be shot and every nonwhite guy was some sort of honorable samurai warrior. What a load of crap.

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[–] Aloft 12 years ago

Probably, not "prolly". Prolly isn't a word.

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[–] Bilwick1 12 years ago

I thought, after all the tense moments he had been through, and would be through in the immediate future, he needed a few moments of entertainment by watching them take their clothes off.

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[–] decemed 11 years ago

prolly it should be, you know why?
cuz it's shorter, thus easier to write.
but hey, nobody's stopping you doin' it oldschool.

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[–] Aloft 11 years ago

No, it is not any easier to type, but since you cannot even construct a decent sentence it is little wonder that you find six letters dramatically easier to type than eight. But hey, nobody is stopping you from writing like a slavering XBox gamer that is taking ninth grade for the fifth time.

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[–] DirtyReplicant 9 years ago

And yet I believe I understand everything he is trying to convey, so his use of language is a success.
"Prolly" is shorter than probably and contains a double letter, how is that not easier to type?

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[–] Aloft 9 years ago

I unstnd wat u r lanuajing 2. But shrtr snot alwez bttr.

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[–] DirtyReplicant 9 years ago

I see you don't like to admit a mistake, but surely a pedant such as yourself must recognise the meaning of "easier"?

Who replaced John Mclane with an out and out *beep*

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[–] killian_d 12 years ago

A lot of Ghost Dogs actions are based on luck/fate. He's walking and needs a car. So He comes across a car and steals it. He needs a suit and sees a man in a suit so he steals it.

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[–] Calinks 12 years ago

Ghost Dog is a grand theft auto character brought to life!

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[–] ajukoor 11 years ago

He took the suit because he needed it for to appear as businessman. And he took the colthes of the woman becuase he was secret transvestite. Though he later discovered it was too tight for him.

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[–] pauldada 10 years ago

Ha. He shopped the guy as he was tailing them in the stolen Mercedes as being about his size. Maybe he took the girl's dress so the guy wouldn't feel so humiliated on his own. But the idea of a guy looking like Ghost Dog with his cornrows and all thinking a blue suit would be adequate camouflage is a little funny. The police don't come into anyone's thinking at all in this movie, certainly not in Jersey City.

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[–] Antzus 10 years ago

You guys need to think more like an elusive criminal:
1) He wanted to infiltrate the mafia house. His (pretty basic) ruse of something about being a real estate agent required him to be dressed like one.
2) His shack and seemingly all his worldly belongings, other than that under the floorboards, had been rummaged-through or destroyed, so no chance of having an unidentifiable suit on-hand. He steals cars to remain untraceable when he does a job, so why not steal suits if the job also requires it? As someone mentioned, it might've been done on the spur of the moment.
3) Why the woman's clothes? To keep the couple wondering as much as we're doing here on the discussion boards. If he took only a suit and the guy reported the robbery, the cops would be keeping an eye out for anyone dressed like that. Steal a jangly blue dress as well, and they'll think it's just some pervert wierdo.

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[–] jigalini 10 years ago

It made no sense, just a dumb scene.

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[–] kamecantina 9 years ago

Just because something is not immediately apparent and explained doesn't make it "dumb".

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