whats up with the money cut in half?..victor was taping it together.will the money be still accepted by others in that condition in britain?i am talking about in real life not only in the movie.
shareJust a joke. A play on "half now, half on delivery"
Instead of giving half the money, they actually cut it in half
It's a not-uncommonly used trick in movies; but the number of notes involved is usually just ONE. Kinds of "puts the money into escrow": If I give you half of a ten pound note, NEITHER half is of value to the person holding it - so I've nothing further to lose by (later) giving you the second half. Also commonly used in movies to allow spies to reassure themselves that their contact is the real person: a banknote that roughly been torn in half. If you have the other half, then you MUST be the person I'm supposed to meet.
shareYou're confusing two completely different things. Tearing a bill or a picture in half to prove a match is one thing. Cutting $50,000 in half is a pure play on half now, half later
this movie is funny in its own way but far too serious or too realistic for a joke like that.i do get the joke AND i liked the movie but this movie is not made like the "naked gun" or "hot shot" ,spoof movie where anything is possible,thats why i got confused.
shareIt was too silly for this black comedy for sure, you are right
In all honesty, I think it really is just a play on "half now, half when the job is done".
Most people would take that to mean, give me $5000 now, and another $5000 when the job is done, but instead they cut $10,000 in half and give one side of the cut in half bills to him, and give him the other half when the job is done.
I think it is just a joke for the audience. There's no real deep meaning or anything, it's just a play on the turn of a phrase.
Steve B
Just a droll joke. Dryer than yesterday's toast, but mildly amusing.
shareNobody responded the original post question: Will the money be still legally valid?
shareI once worked for a bank in Australia and the answer to the original question is:-
(1) For a note cut in half you will obtain 50% of its value from a local bank branch if the partial banknote is equal to or slightly greater than 50% of the note's surface area.
(2) You will get full value for a complete note that has had its 2 halves taped together.
(3) The note will be then be sent by the bank to the Reserve Bank (the equivalent of the USA's Central Bank) for destruction as the notes (or part thereof) is mutilated.
(4) A known fraud was for people to cut up $100 notes into 5 pieces and tape back just 4 pieces and present the notes to a bank. An unobservant bank teller may give them full value for each note. Do it 5 times and you get $500 for $400.
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I don't know about other countries, but in the UK it is legal to spend money that has been torn in half and put back together, at least it can be taken to a bank and swapped for a whole note.
There was a story a few yars ago where this artist took a few thousnd pounds and tore it all up into thousands of peices and put it into bins all over the city, he said who ever gets it and puts i back together can keep it. Which loads of people did and the banks changed it for them into new notes.
In the US, you get full value for any bill with more than 50% of the bill still intact or with both halves taped together. Taped together bills can still be used.
shareThat's my opinion, too, in case of one ore some more bills taped. But if you present yourself at a bank with 50k of them, I don't think you're gonna have any success in getting clean ones instead. Police will be alerted surely.
sharePolice are alerted for anything over $10k (IRS actually), but the money would be unlikely to have been deposited by the hitman.
shareIf an arsing is happening at your house and you had bills inside, if you manage to recover even a small part of the bills, you can then go to the bank, with the police report + fire department report and they are bound by the law to give you full notes. They do a little analysis to see each bill what value originally had and also to detect duplicates (the pieces belonging to the same note) and your hard earned cash can be back on your hands. The technology is very easy, most of the automatic counting machines at central banks have this incorporated in them as a way to prevent fake notes for re-circulation. It's possible to do ash analysis as well but that's a bit harder, the banks don't keep a chemistry lab around them, so you'll have to pay that lab, that is economically feasible for $50 and $100 notes.
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The joke happened early in the movie. It's there to tell us not to take the movie too seriously. Just relax and enjoy.
each note should have 2 sets of code. so long as the code is not damaged and matches the other code you should have no problem taking it to the bank.
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