Could someone please explain to me what ended up happening in the game i got lost after he saw the picture of the 1st lady and the publisher.. so who killed the prez?
sharedunno, i started playing around in the net at this time. Sooo....someone please fill us in.
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The First Lady had the President killed because he was having an affair. Cuba's character was loyal to the president so he decided not to expose the president's secret affair when he realized his wife killed him...and he couldn't prove it because everyone involved was now dead. Notice the painting the first lady is working on: It's made of several canvasses, but when you piece them together it depicts a spider weaving a web in the jungle, however up close it looks like an abstract painting. Hence, the first lady says to Cuba's character, "you're too close, you need to look at it from my perspective." Then he started remembering the tension between the First Lady, flashbacks of how she was jilted...remembering when the President's cell phone rang in the limo...probably a call from the other woman. Cuba was very fond of both the President and his wife, so he couldn't see the truth staring him in the face, until he stood back and looked at the big picture from her perspective.
shareI just watched it again, and it's clear now. The ending was kinda just thrown together it seemed. Oh well, it was probably one of the better thrillers I'v seen in the last few years. Loved the action.
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There has to be more to the conspiracy than just a jilted lover. Why was Stevens in on it? It's hard to believe Stevens would go along with the assassination of the president because he was cheating on his wife. And how does Judith Fincher fit into everything? I think they make a point in the movie that Stevens was motivated by women (Fincher) but that seems like a flimsy motivation to assassinate the president and still doesn't answer why she'd be in on the plot in the first place.
shareI have the exact same questions about Stevens and Fincher just_sally.
That all had me confused too. There's no logical sequence to place Fincher & Stevens into the plot/motive for being part of the assassination.
Two things about the ending resonate in my mind...who was the girl on the phone? I thought it looked like Fincher, but that wouldn't make sense, as she visited the ex-first lady...who would've had her *offed* too if she were the one sleeping with the president, you'd imagine.
Lastly, what was the significance of the photo of Fincher with the first lady?
I like movies that make you actually *think* (Revolver springs to mind), but this is crazy.
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well i don;t know if i got it right but i think the 1st lady was sleeping with stevens to get him to do all the dirty work but i don;t know how judy fincher get in unless she was sleeping with the first lady but stevens probaly arrange the killing because he knew the right ppl to do the job but maybe i am wrong that is just my opinion
shareAnybody read the book 'The Sentinel'...Similar story line. The Michael Douglas movie is supposed to be based on this book but from what I've heard, its different. The book has more of a similar plotline to End Game.
shareThe First Lady was po'dcause the Prez was cheating on her. She knew Fincher. She got Fincher to convince Stevens to help assasinate the President. Stevens got the other guys in the conspiracy also. The thing is the First Lady had to tie up all loose ends including Stevens. She knew Baldwin was in the hospital under watch and he would've been arrested and this may have led to his blurting out Stevens' name. Then if Stevens were caught she was running the risk of being found out. Fincher was her homegirl. That's why the First Lady didn't off her also. All Fincher had to do was convince Stevens to help out and then to kill him. See if Stevens talked, Fincher would've also gone down. And Cuba stayed alive, like someone earlier said, the First Lady asked him to "see things from where I'm standing", and he was so faithful to the Prez that he wasn't going to ruin his name by turning her in.
Wifey gets p!ss3d that she's being cheated on; talks to her homegirl; women and sex can get men to do stupid things; they do the job; homegirls clear their tracks.
About the checks, I don't think it was that the Prez knew he was going to be killed or anything rather than that lifestyle was going to be over. "In Memory" of those times when I was the President. When he gave Cuba that last check they were talking about how it would all be over soon...his term.
They say it's hard being a woman in a man's world, but try being a man in MY world.
OK - now that I've read this post on like 8 different threads, I still have to ask the question: what could have motivated Stevens to become involved in the plot? Fincher was his lover? Based on what? The meeting in the lobby? He didn't want an affair exposed, so he killed the prez? Ann Archer was sleeping with Stevens? Weak plot, no matter what your explanation is. But the whole thing had an overall good feel to it - just many opportunities wated.
Burt Reynold's character absolutely unnecessary, and miscast. He was horribler in this movie than almost any other, and that's saying something.
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I have to watch it again - but the Pres. knew he was going to be killed.
When Cuba was hanging up the checks, the last check had a message on the memo line. "In memory of a good friend" - or something like that....
So maybe the wife did set up the assasination. Or did he do it to himself??
He was done being President.
ok it al makes sens the pissed wife stavens all but tell me smth i wass suspicious about the general from the first places i think that in all this scheme the general takes the place of stevens and stevens is innocent, just the black sheep this is what i think beacause otherwise the general had no reason to appear in the movie
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