How did Jack manage to get back to Hillary's shack and carry both of the bodies back to the boat to get away before Hillary managed to get home? Especially considering he wouldn't have been able to load them into the boat until Hillary had got out and left the scene. Did he warp there and become super-hero strong or something? And why wasn't he attacked by crocodiles while he was swimming in the swamp when it was made obvious they were all around him?
shareIt was a big swamp. He was a swimming champion. He was just lucky with the crocodiles.
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These are good questions. I think these end-scenes are the most questionable in the movie. Why, indeed, did Jack remove the bodies at all? He was disturbing a crime scene. He should have just called the police.
And why, oh why, didn't he tip over Hillary's boat when he was swimming under it and Hillary was leaning over, looking for him???
The alligators are a problem. They shouldn't have been featured so prominently if they weren't going to get into the action.
Anybody in their right minds would not have even attempted to visit Hillary in the swamp. So, with Jack not in his right mind, I can see how he decided to take his brother and Charlotte away from the crazy Hillary. You can also make the case that Jack had plenty of time to think about this while swimming around the swamp. Jack assumed (as I did) that Hillary would have disposed of the bodies before the police could arrive.
Maybe Jack did not try to tip over Hillary's boat because he thought it was too heavy. Although with Jack being a good swimmer he would have the advantage if Hillary fell in the water.
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I don't think a person floating in water can tip a boat like that. If he'd pushed on the boat, he would've gone down; the boat wouldn't have gone over. And it would've tipped JC off that he was there. That wasn't a tiny canoe. It was a decent sized fishin' boat with an outboard motor. It's made to, you know, not tip over easily.
I wondered how he got back to the house and got those bodies to his boat. One thing, where was Hillary all that time? And second, that would've taken him a long time to get one body to the boat, then go back and get the other.
I can see why he took the bodies, though. Because JC would've gotten rid of the bodies in the swamp, and there would've been no evidence, except the Paperboy's word, that JC had killed them. There would've been blood, but his whole place was covered in blood. We already know the police in that area weren't keen on testing blood (there was no DNA then). And for Charlotte, there would have been no big pool of blood, since it looked like she was strangled.
Actually, tipping over a rowboat, or at least tipping out a standing occupant (as Hillary was) should be easy. You just come up from the water and pull down on the side of the boat. Jack was a strong swimmer; he would have defeated Hillary in the water.
The ending, with Jack taking away the bodies, has lots of problems, as you indicate. A big problem would be Jack showing up at the dock with the bodies. It's just his word that Hillary killed them.
The alligators are a problem. They shouldn't have been featured so prominently if they weren't going to get into the action.
Made no sense to me either. He'd run for his life away from that shack and presumably stayed half-underwater in an alligator-infested swamp all night to avoid the guy in the shack. Then in the morning when he was clearly visible and the bad guy with the machete was on the loose, he went back to the shack to recover a couple of worthless dead bodies.
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Jack returning and loading the bodies prior to Hillary's arrival did not make sense to me either except that Hillary seemed to have ran out fuel which would have delayed his return. Also not being attacked by alligators is plausible since attacks are overall pretty rare considering the number of people who swim/wade in infested waters.
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1. Jack and Ward show up at Hillary's, tie to the dock. They walk to the house. A house, by the way, built with no roads, no paths, just pure swampland. I don't expect paved roads, but it is strange to think there isn't any kind of a well-trod path leading to this house or the Uncle's.
2. Jack and Ward confront Hillary, Ward gets what he came for, Jack runs back to the dock.
3. His boat is not there, so he swims. I presume that Hillary had hidden it before Jack could get to it. There was no other reason to show Jack at the dock, other than to show that there was no boat tied there (Jack's or Hillary's).
4. Hillary takes HIS boat (I orginally thought it was Jack's boat, then realized Hillary's has a chair), which is also not tied to the dock, and looks for Jack.
5. Jack being a world-class swimmer (now we see why it was mentioned so much), he evades Hillary, and gets back to the dock.
6. Jack gets the bodies, drags them to the water, again across swamp land with NO ROADS and NO PATHS, gets them in HIS boat, and gets away.
Questions:
-- Where was Jack's boat?
-- Where was Hillary's boat?
-- Did ANYONE make use of the dock?
-- Why did Hillary's father name him after Ms. Clinton? She wasn't famous yet in 1969. Was it "Boy named Sue" inspired, because he wasn't going to be around, and he wanted his son to grow up tough, tough enough to cut people with knives?
i presumed that they didnt tie their boat up, drunk and all, and it just drifted away...Zac Efron looked like a big ? when he came to the dock and no boat was there.
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He wasn't attacked by any crocodiles because there weren't any around....they were alligators.
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