If Mr. Hobbs passed all the insurance money to Laura, who in turn donated everything to charity, on what did they live after the heist? Clearly Mr. Hobbs could not have relied (in Switzerland) on his pension since he was found guilty, as for Laura - she quit her job and became a philanthropist. Did he actually steal some diamonds and did she live on interest? :)
shareWell, that's a two part answer:
For Hobbs, he did have this planned out from the get-go. I mean, he'd been doing planning for 15 years for 'the right time'. I imagine that his 'pension' complaint to Laura was just another ruse to get her on board. I'm sure he had his finances worked out ahead of time. He didn't strike me as the kind of man who would be bothered by living in modest means, which he probably would have been able to afford.
For Laura, she would have had a reasonable amount of finances behind her in the first place, plus she had 100 million pounds stirling to manage. If she gave herself a modest income of 50,000 pounds per year that wouldn't even TOUCH the interest that she would earn on 100,000,000.
There was a similar issue that came up in another Demi Moore movie. In Indecent Proposal her husband David eventually bids the $1,000,000 (I think it was) in the final auction, thus bankrupting himself to get Diana (Demi) back. So, what happened to all the money that the spent on cars and fast living? I think that this is one of those situations you don't think about too much, but certainly in Flawless there was scope for her being able to finance her position as a philanthropist yet also give herself an income from the interest.
SpiltPersonality
Even a 20K or 25K sterling pounds "salary" would have been plenty of money back then (assuming a comfortable middle class life without great luxuries). In any case, didn't she get married? I think I saw pics of her with a husband and kid(s) in the materials she handed to the journalist.
Oh, I wasn't saying that she's necessarily BE on 50,000 sterling, but if she did (she would be used to living a richer existence) then even on THAT salary and putting the money in the bank, she would still have > 100,000,000 to play with.
In fact, thinking it through:
She invests 100,000,000 in a 1% interest deposit for a year. I mean, you blink and you get that kind of interest just by putting it in your local keycard account
She's now got 101,000,000. Even if she doesn't invest the money and puts the 1,000,000 in the mattress, she can live on 50,000 per year for 20 years!!!
Hell, she'd make 50,000 @ 1% interest in 20 days!!!
Money is DEFINITELY not going to be her problem
And lets face it, even if she was a bit greedy, many CEO's of philanthropic companies are on a reasonable coin.
SpiltPersonality
Oh, I agree with you. I didn't mean to say that you had argued for a GBP 50k annual payoff... I was just saying, that yes, but even 20K would have been plenty. (Maybe even 10K in the early 60s if you are not that greedy!)
You have to remember that she didn't immediately receive that money. So yes, there was likely interest collected and he was able to live on that reasonably and give her just the sum of money that was given originally to the swiss account.
Remember also that his wife died of cancer and he likely had insurance on her because he worked a decent enough job to be able to afford it. Also, he likely kept his money but did stay on at his job to get his revenge that he planned for quite some time.
Ms. Quinn did not need a lot to live off of. She was in third world countries helping others and writing checks. She did not need much. She helped and was loved by the people. She appears to also have finally found a man, a doctor likely from one of the places she was in, and had a baby with him. So she went on to live a good life.