the scene where they dropped the keys out of the coat and kept running back and forth from the cathedral to the car and forgetting the keys and missing each other on the way. this happened one too many times for me and had me going "for christ's sake, now."
Yes, but I looked up the story. It seems to be true to what actually happened. Kind of bungled all along, and rather a miracle they managed to pull it off.
shareThat is true... it was very bungled in reality.
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I liked the movie too. I had never heard of this story and though I am not Scottish or English, I kind of felt genuinely moved by the sequences of national pride at the end.
The only scene/scenes that bothered me were some of the interactions with the London constables. Maybe it's some filmmaker thing to intensify the national fervor or maybe it is some English cultural thing to accept officious police that overstep their authority, but I was questioning the scenes (authenticity and justification) of the PC telling Ian to "move along", and the other scene where the DS tells the group "that's the road out of London, take it".
It feels a bit like a non-police writer imagining the typical heavy-handed, extraordinarily aware, and unaccountably potent police of movies.
Private property is another matter, but if one is in a public square/sidewalk (sketching or note-taking) or surface street (waiting in a car for a friend in a legally parked, registered car) and not causing a disturbance, there is no lawful reason to be ordered to "move along". Of course, maybe there was some special emergency or security reason that the audience was not aware of, or maybe laws were different then in post-WWII England. 3 or 4 police cars including a supervisor responding to a suspicious person call on Christmas morning also seems excessive.
Westminster Abbey is next to the Houses of Parliament.
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Yes! Absolutely- I had to leave the room. I'm not sure if it was done to try to make the heist "wacky" or just stretch for time. On the second trip back for the keys why would you just assume they were in the coat pocket instead of checking when you grab the coat? There were two other things I had trouble with- When Ian's struggling to get the stone out to the car by himself there's a wheelbarrow in the background propped up against the building. Also- do I have to do a spoiler? after hiding the stone they had to return to get it because it wasn't supposed to be exposed to moisture- and after succeeding they all poured their drinks on it.
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