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Why didn't Harry tell Bishop he had nothing to do with Cape Town?

posted 8 years ago by brokedickdog7
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SPOILERS

Dean manipulates Bishop with lies about Harry and the operatives in South Africa were taken out by their own team member. Dean paid him a lot of money.

So when Arthur Bishop brilliantly gets Harry to bypass his own security and gets him out in the parking lot helpless in his wheelchair he asks Harry "Why?".

All Harry had to do was deny his involvement in the killings of the operatives.

But he didn't. He shrugs and says "Cape Town." He seemed resigned to his fate.

He was Bishop's mentor. Why didn't he deny his involvement?

Possibly Dean paid Harry the "20 million" to turn a blind eye on the treachery? That is the only scenario I can see that would not make that scene a plot hole.

Correct? Or was it a plot hole?

[–] tenantennae 8 years ago

Why didn't he deny his involvement?

He doesn't know there's anything to deny. Keep in mind that Harry doesn't know how Dean lied to Bishop about what happened in Cape Town and manipulated him into taking the job by painting him as a traitor.

He just knows Dean wants him dead because of Cape Town, and Bishop has agreed to take him out.

Also, he's resigned to his fate and doesn't care about talking him out of it. As he says, they'd just send someone else; he'd rather Bishop kill him because Bishop will have to live with it.

[–] yusef-ghanima 8 years ago

and why does he want arhtur to live with it? i guess retarded people would enjoy a retarded movie any way

[–] goonies383 8 years ago

It really shouldn't have mattered to Bishop the reason. Harry should have simply been another job.

[–] yusef-ghanima 8 years ago

it was clear from the beginning that it wasn't, arthur asked for a special meeting before he planned to do it, and went on with it when when the retarded screen writer decided that harry shouldn't even try to explain. harry was his mentor who was so special to arhtur that he called him his partner. were you drunk when you watched the movie or is it just how you go threw your retarded life

[–] goonies383 8 years ago

I've just seen the original. The screen writers borrow a lot from the original including these characters but this was one of their dumbest changes. One of the biggest keys to Bishop in the original was his cold blooded nature and despite the fact he was contracted to hit his friend it didn't matter he was just a job. In this version they add a stupid moral conflict but in reality it shouldn't have mattered it was just a job. They pervert the character a bit in this remake unfortunately by doing so they create a much mote messy script. Also the son was a complete sociopath in the original and didn't care his father died.

If the screenwriters knew what they were doing and wanted to stay true to the spirit of the original they should have kept Bishop heartless then questions like this don't matter because it's just a job.

[–] yusef-ghanima 8 years ago

now you started to make sense

[–] bronson69-653-5261 8 years ago

Perhaps he had reason to feel guilty over the South Africa debacle,eg that it not only failed to get the target, but the organisation lost a team.

Or he knew that defending himself would be useless as Arthur Bishop would take him out anyway, or even if he did convince him, sonebody else would be sent eventually.

Or he had so many problems in his life, such as his divorce settlement and lack of money that it was easier to end it all. Remember that the son, Steve, says that the house will be sold and there would be nothing left. Perhaps a reasin why Bushop takes him on as a trainee?

John

[–] yusef-ghanima 8 years ago

or maybe the movie makers are so retarded that they didn't care since they knew most people who watch movies are retarded too

[–] yusef-ghanima 8 years ago

it's a plot hole, and harry not killing arthur is another, actually the whole movie is a bunch of holes that it's useless to talk about any.