the 'minute' reporter


I just watched both of these films and thought they were excellent. Only bit
i was a bit confused by was when they took the reporter to the cave where they
stripped him and beat him up. Mesrine then shot him twice but in the next scene they had the minute paper and were saying hes still alive. Was it a different reporter they had killed? In wikipedia it says the they nearly killed him, so i was just wondering?????

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yes, the guy is still alive. He was left nearly dead but he survived.
He told Mesrine really wanted to kill him.
natalia

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In the movie he was shot in the head with his hands tied behind his back in a cave deep in a forest. How on earth did he get out of that situation? Did it happen like that in real life or is this one of those films which is "based on a true story", in other words, jazzed up for effect?

I've never heard of this guy but if it had been billed as fiction, you'd laugh it off the screen as being as implausible as a Van Damme movie.

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I dont think he did survive...

My interpretation was that they used the expression that he is "alive" not that he survived. I believe this was because the man was a journalist and got lots of media attention therefore his name and face lives on in the media. Mesrine normally killed faceless gangsters that would not receive such media coverage and by killing a journalist was against what Mesrine would normally do.. this is why his side kick viewed killing a journalist as a mistake as this turned the public against Mesrine.

Only my opinion

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Interpretation does not enter into it. The journalist, Jacques Tillier, survived.

http://www.lequotidien.re/actualites/la-reunion/66311-l-information-re unionnaise-24-heures-sur-24-le-jir-lancera-une-tele-locale-en-decembre .html

This is a picture of him taken years after those events. Does he look dead to you ?

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In "real life", Mesrine shot him 3 times. In the mouth, one arms and one leg. The mouth shot wasn't fatal.

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In the movie it really looks like he shoots him right in the head. AND he's in a cave, in a forest, handcuffed and naked like someone mentioned before.

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People CAN survive bullet wounds to the head.

Not every gunshot is fatal.

They left him for dead, but they were wrong.

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Just for those of you who are not familiar with the French media, "Minute" is a extreme-right, some would say fascist, weekly.

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What did he mean when he put the towel round his mouth and said "this is what we do in albainia" or something like that ?

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@tobyscool:

"In Algeria". He was gonna torture him like he'd learnt during the Algerian war.


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Doesn't make sense how he survived in the film. Getting shot in the head is almost a sure way of dying, but not always if given quick medical help. Getting shot in the head while tied up in the middle of nowhere. That's a different story.

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Yeah, I just watched this again today. Fantastic film, but this part of the film still doesn't make sense.

The guy is beaten almost to death while tied up. Also, throw in the fact that they are in the woods in the middle of nowhere deep in some cave. Also throw in the fact that Mesrine puts his gun over the reporters head and shoots 3 times at close range! Three times. Either this guy has a brain made of steel or he's Superman.

I'm not sure what was different in reality, but in the movie the guys odds of surival was in the billions.

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just watched and they basically hinted that the guy they killed was a snitch or an informer(assuming to everyone: police, newspapers, etc)...

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After shooting him, Mesrine took photos. In the next scene his friend is angry that he sent the police or/and the media the photos. I think you could argue that they actually told the police where he was because they wanted him to be seen like that. They just were'nt expecting him to live and say who shot him. Knowing Mesrine though, he probably would welcome this. He seems to not care initially until his friend "wakes" him up to what he has done.

I agree though, it looked like he shot him 3 times in the face. It happened pretty quick but seemed very executioner style!

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I was very surprised when they said he survived.
I would have guessed the beating alone nearly killed him.
But damn, human life is pretty resilient.


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