Explaination
Can someone explain this to me? i confused bout the ending
Can you believe they wanted to call it, "Highway Crossing Frog" - Will Ferral
What I can't understand is why people find it so important to have a movie like this make sense. First off, it's a movie. It's made up. These are CHARACTERS. It's fiction, OK? The characters behave the way the writer wants them to behave in order to tell his story. I just read that whole thread where there are multiple interpretations of what actually happened and a lot of whiney complaints about movies that have twists for the sake of a twist. The reason movies have twists has to do with a writer manipulating the viewer. It's a con game. That is the point of having a twist. And when a viewer falls for the twist and is pissed off then the writer did his job. He fooled you into believing soemthing that really didn't happen. And that's the reason that all those people are upset about the ending. They were fooled. Plain and simple.
But anyone really paying attention to the movie could see that "twist" coming a mile off. It's obvious from the moment Jones shows up and never once asks for the real lottery ticket. He knows that the ticket has been switched because he knows the real numbers and he decides to play mind games with Tepper. That is the whole point of the movie. Jones loves to gamble and play games. Look what he did in the darts game. It's all cat-and-mouse. Who can fool who? Even the other characters are playing games with each other. Fishman knowing everyone's "poker tell". Bolan experimenting with the power of suggestion when he fakes the cat piss stink. Quigley discovering that Tepper cheated, then making the call to the lottery agency to find out what the winning numbers and then rigging the deck so Tepper will win the final hand. And obviously the story is so well constructed that it fooled lots of people. But instead of being surprised they got mad. Why? They got fooled and nobody likes to be fooled.
I thought this movie was excellent. But that's probably because I know the difference between real life and a movie and can enjoy a STORY for its own sake.
i totally agree that's also why i love my horror movies so much
shareI totally agree with everything you said! This movie was great I thought the ending was awsome. A lot of movie twists suck but this one was good.
Your pale body has that graveyard charm
First things first I have to admit this was mildly entertaining and suspenseful.
NOTHING about this film's plot made any sense.
Why are bunch of 30-year olds playing a dead serious game of cards for a couple lottery tickets first of all?
The store that sold the jackpot-winning ticket will likely be able to verify who purchased it. Especially if they buy the same numbers daily. In addition, if this Avery Phillips guy plays his granddaughters birthday everyday he is going to claim that he lost the ticket when he hears the winning numbers.. its not like the state is going to cash a $SIX MILLION winner without a little investigation into the matter. They don't just hand you wads of thousand-dollar bills the next day.
What was the deal with that dude's impotency? And the girlfrind leaves after 30 seconds of not answering the buzzer????????????? Just dismisses their life plan???? The thing could be broken, there are a million reasons why he is not answering.
Hey Tepp why not just give the guy the wallet WITHOUT the other ticket in it?? Just say you found it with no ticket. Then you might have a chance in hell at cashing in if the guy doesnt know his numbers and no one claims the winnings.
The twist at the ending is the least of the far-fetchedness in this one, albeit pretty far-fetched.
> The store that sold the jackpot-winning ticket will likely be able to verify who
> purchased it.
I don't think stores keep records of who buys tickets and what numbers they play.
> this Avery Phillips guy plays his granddaughters birthday everyday he is going
> to claim that he lost the ticket when he hears the winning numbers.. its not
> like the state is going to cash a $SIX MILLION winner without a little
> investigation into the matter. They don't just hand you wads of thousand-dollar
> bills the next day.
Do you really think that if you won a $30m jackpot that the state would do a full investigation to make sure you actually bought the ticket? they'll know if the numbers were drawn, and they'll have ways to check if the ticket is legit and that's about it. The only way an investigation would come into play is if TWO people showed up with the same ticket and only one was recorded as the winner.
> Hey Tepp why not just give the guy the wallet WITHOUT the other ticket in it??
> Just say you found it with no ticket. Then you might have a chance in hell at
> cashing in if the guy doesnt know his numbers and no one claims the winnings.
So, if "no one" claims the winnings how does Tepp claim the winnings? Tepp was screwed as soon as he called the number. Because it was AFTERWARDS that he found the ticket. If Tepp shows up on the news as the winnder then Avery would have plenty of proof the ticket was stolen from him: Avery can probably prove he's always played the same numbers if he kept any of his old tickets, the store owner could have vouched for him if he was a regular customer, and they can use his granddaughter birth certificate as evidence. There's phone records which could be subpoenaed showing Tepp called Avery's brother in law (?) and, now that I think of it, the possibility of the voice mail message he left stating he found the wallet. Avery can prove he showed up to claim the wallet by the phone records showing he called his wife. All this leads to proof that Avery always bought the same ticket, he lost his wallet, and the finder who returned it to him just happened to win the jackpot on those same numbers. Avery might have to prove he actually bought the winning ticket, but there's enough circumstantial evidence to raise doubt Tepp was a legit winner.
Tepp would have needed to get someone else to claim the winnings in order to get away with it.
I'm just saying, the time and place of purchase are going to have to be verified by whoever is claiming the six million. Those records are automatically kept in the lottery system. Each transaction is online, the stores themselves dont keep the record.
shareHaha ok you guys obviously don't play the lottery much. First off, from the get-go the movie was messed up because there were only three numbers. Now this was obviously done for the sake of the "birthdate" cliche number picking. I mean come on, lets say there are 99 possible numbers for each slot--99*99*99 is 970,299...yet the jackpot is 6,000,000? Haha, lets all put together a million dollars (approx.) go buy every number, then make six times our investment. But anyway, on the back of a lotto ticket it says "This ticket is a bearer instrument. Anyone possesing an unsigned ticket may file a claim." Haha are you guys kidding that the cashier would "vouche" for him. Give me a break, everyone has a price so there is no way the lotto would belive the cashier isn't getting paid off to some cayman's account for "vouching" that he "always buys the tickets...honest...this time he definitely did, and didn't forget or anything...plus no one else in the city picked those numbers too...I know because...yeah I just do." This movie definitely has holes, but the best part about the movie is a smalltime neighborhood game was esentially being played with $6 Million in CASH, which is what a winning lotto ticket is--CASH.
Also, how about the poker game they played. Come on. 5 Card draw with no rounds of betting is just luck. Heck, why don't we just high card for the lotto pot? Then again the point of a movie about the lottery is luck...not that I give the writer credit for a version of a game of skill (poker) turned into a game of luck. But then who knows, maybe the game of luck (lotto) was turned into a game of skill by all these players?
It's a shame this movie had so many flaws, since, being an amatuer screenwriter myself I was toying with a found lotto ticket concept screenplay myself...that's the reason I rented this B movie anyway...
One would think that such an astute young screenwriter such as yourself would have noticed that each ticket cost $5. Double zero could have been played making one million different options, so a $6 million payoff certainly isn't unreasonable.
I don't understand why people have such a difficult time understanding this movie. Victor could have easily made the exact same mistake as Tepper and called his brother-in-law before he realized that his ticket was a winner. Greed takes over and he decides to go over to Tepper's house himself to see if the wallet contains the ticket. When he notices that the there is a lotto ticket in the wallet (but the wrong numbers) it arrouses suspicions of foul play and Tepper's nervous mannerisms show that a switch was probably made.
As for how they didn't see each other, what would you prefer? Twenty minutes of Tepper watching TV? It was simply a time saver, nothing more.
There really aren't many holes in this movie. Victor dealing with his brother-in-law afterwards would be interesting, but crazier things have happened over large amounts of money.
The key word is CLAIM.
A Winning Lotto Ticket is NOT cash. Any winnings rightfully belong to the PURCHASER of the ticket BY LAW. If a person can prove that they purchased the winning ticket at such-and-such an agent at such-and-such a time (information the state will have about said ticket), and has witnesses (quite possibly a cashier?) your'e looking at a huge ongoing court battle at the very least; with possible severe legal repercussions for the person making the allegedly fraudulent claim.
I do not play lottery much, but if you continue to do so and have ambitions of hitting it big someday, I suggest you actually take a few seconds and fill out the form on the back side with your name and personal information; you know, in case it gets misplaced.
Worthy F'n Adversary.....
I wouldn't have called anyone and check the whole wallet the minute I found it I could tell ya that much.. the whole movie surround an idiot who want to cash in on the 6 millions lottery and want to do the right thing at the same time.. so stupid.
Love is Pain.
The ticket price is $1.50, not $5.
shareThat's crap. Don't lecture about how anyone else feel about the movie and why. Also, I'm well aware of the fact that this is a movie. Yes, it's made up. Yes, it's only characters. Yes, it's fiction. But what's so great about really good movies is that you actually feel this could happen in real life. The fine line between fiction and fact is always invicible. That's why this doesn't make sense to me. A twist needs an explanation, otherwise it's just bad writing.
shareHey TheMgnt dude! Way to contradict your first two clever answers with your third clever answer. You are a real winner.
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