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so Manns intention was to kill the crew?

posted 8 years ago by bozo_500
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He tried to kill cooper. The other guy got blown up. Then that leaves catwoman. Would he have killed her as well? My guess is yes she was supposed to die in the explosion if she hadn't gone after cooper..or if not hed have bashed her over the head when he got back or left her stranded on the planet..

The way he weeps when he's awoken its like he's happy to see another face like he says but at the same time its like hes crying because he knows what he's done and what hes got to do to them, a fact that is verified when he's told he's the only one they've found and then he sort of nods his head as if to go 'right..here we go..' and then launches into his lies about the planet having a surface...maybe even life..a fact that visibly excites the crew throwing them even more (we don't know if life has been found in the universe before in the Interstellar universe other than potentially the wormhole of course)

[–] oy16y 8 years ago

No cause he would have become depressed if he became the only human being on that planet again. I don't think he was faking his joy when he was awakened by the crew.

[–] SuperBobster 8 years ago

Yes I would assume he intended to kill all of them so he could take the ship and the Endurance and go to Edmund's planet to set up plan B.

I wonder if his original intention was to eventually tell them his planet was no good, but his problem was Cooper: As soon as Mann found out that Cooper wanted to leave to go back to Earth he realised this would cause complications, he probably wouldn't have enough resources or propulsion to get to Edmund's planet. So Mann had to get Cooper out of the way, and all the others as well to keep things simple.

[–] bozo_500 8 years ago

Yes that's possible if Cooper hadn't wanted to go back or if Prof Brand hadn't died at that point maybe eventually Mann wouldve come clean? and hed be all crying and saying what he said to cooper as they fought ('I knew if I just pushed that button!') And there'd have been all the 'you *beep* in' coward' (cooper)..'ass hole!' (brand)...'I do not approve of your actions' (Romney) but it'd be inside the ship and then they'd have to forgive him and take him to Edmunds planet to start plan B. Or maybe he was planning to do away with them all anyway to avoid being thought of as a coward and that being passed on in the colony (maybe waking up early on the trip to Edmunds planet and killing them in their sleep)

His actions do seem abit desperate, cobbled together at the last minute while trying to maintain the veneer of being the all american 'Matt Damon' hero - his casting designed to throw the audience also (least we forget however Damon started out playing a similar sinister sneaky creep in Mr Ripley before he became the all American hero)

[–] SuperBobster 8 years ago

I don't know where the 'All American hero' idea comes from with regards to Matt Damon. What's that about?

[–] gstards 8 years ago

His intentions was to steal the Endurance and realize the Plan B (to left all people on Earth to die and start a new life through biological samples of human genes on Endurance) by all coasts, because he believed that Plan A (to transport all people, or at least part of them, to the new habitable planet) is impossible to realize (actually, he was sure in it, he didn't know about the Tesseract in the middle of the black hole and all this bookshelf stuff).

He tried to kill Cooper because he was going to take Endurance and flight on it home; he didn't kill Romilly, basically, he just installed a mine on his personal robot (Kipp), it was Romilly's own curiosity which killed him. If Brand was the only survival, she could probably agree to flight with Mann on Edmunds, but he was just pissed off too much to argue with her about that.

Nolan, I love you forever!

[–] Cradocus 7 years ago

"a fact that is verified when he's told he's the only one they've found"

Good point. It seems he was hoping there would be enough fuel to visit others so his actions wouldn't seem so bad. I'm wondering if he had another lie worked out to explain why he pushed the 'yes' button, so he wouldn't have to live out the rest of his time as a known coward.

[–] kole16 7 years ago

His intent was to attempt the mission and let the failure of the mission kill them. Same as before. :P