When O is in the graveyard at the start and end of the movie, I was sure the graves that he's hidden the two bodies under had graves stones saying 2003. IMDB (and my TV guide) list this movie as being from 2001.
Did I see correctly? If so, is there any significance to this?
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Geeze, don't all rush to answer at once, I only posted this like a YEAR ago.. ;)
I was being sarcastic ironically.
I don't know why the the date on the headstone is dated 2003 even though the film was released in 2001. Aparently the film is based on a book so I ASSUME the book maybe set a few years into the future? Anyway, does it matter? lol
"For relaxing times, make it Suntory time." ;)
Geeze r_murtagh, I sit infront of my PC for a year and all you give me is "I don't know". Thank-you oh-so-much!
You're right though, it doesn't particularly matter, I just thought it was interesting, is all. In Hollywood films, if they're set in the near-future they tend to have a specific reason for doing so, like they need a "LASER" or cataclysm. Unless I wasn't paying attention, these didn't occur!
I'm now wondering if could be something like they predicted that it would eventually catch the interest of movie-lovers abroad, so they post-dated all references to date so it wouldn't look old.
I was being sarcastic ironically.
I too wondered about that date on the headstone. My theory is that the movie was released in the US/Canada in 2003 and since they were doing the subtitles to the movie, they erased or changed the year 2001 on the head stone which would have been written in Chinese and replaced it with non-chinese/western numbers so us Westerners would be able to read the date. I guess the producer thought that since it was being released for the first time in the US, they did not want the move to be "old" so I think you are correct on that. This is just my theory and I could be way off base Glacialdrift.
shareI think it's because when O and Lok fought, it's a few years after the course of the main part of the movie. I forget how long had passed since O and Chin's dramatic police escape, but it wasn't very close time-wise. That's my belief.
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