I liked the movie more than I thought I would but I was drinking a little bit and I'm a little foggy on how Clint pieced together the fact that Jeff Daniels was the man. Please don't tell me it was just because he wrote Buddy Noone on his check and No/one could spell out no one.
Thanks.
He figured out that Daniels was getting paid huge money for this film and not having anything to do with the story. So it was obvious that he would have to be the killer, or they would have saved money and cast that role for scale.
"SAMO© as an end to mindwash religion, nowhere politics, and bogus philosophy."
Ha ha - ha ha ha!
But seriously, ...
the "code" had No one(s).
shareWhat does that mean?
shareThe point is that the "Old" killer that he was chasing, called the codekiller, used a code of numbers that contaied all numbers except 1. Then Raymond, the boy, looked at the code, he said "there is no one here". Terry suddenly figured it out when he looked at the check, and the name Noone. No One.
The clue was in the code all the time, but he didnt see it. Not the brightest codes I have seen, but anyway :)
I know I didn't have any problems figuring out who the killer was.
sharethe fact that movies like this always think that they're throwing you a curveball by making the unassuming goofy guy next door the psycho killer tipped me off within the first 5 minutes of the introduction of the character of buddy. I like the genre but the twist of making comedic actors the killers is overly played out, they did it with robin williams in Insomnia (which was one of the worst movies that i have ever seen)
shareI agree with the idea that most thrillers use the "other big name" as the villian. The critic for the Houston paper used his "rule of 3" for both General's Daughter and Kiss the Girls (the 3rd actor credited as the killer). So beyond that fact that it's obvious...
...however, read Connelly's _The Narrows_ which deals with these characters again. Buddy gets pissed in the book, saying that "in that Eastwood movie, they didn't make me out to be a good guy." Connelly's killer still was Noone, but it wasn't Buddy. And Buddy was described as the bum like Daniels played in the film.
Personally, I didn't care about the screenwriter changing the identity of the killer. Makes of a different narrative experience, at least.
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