Why did mel gibson use the name reginald t.barnes?
Why did he use that name? and what did the reginald t barnes do?
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did not watch to end ?
he used that name to get trouble to his wife's ex, actually got him killed at end.
That was a dream.
But yes, that is why he used that name.
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Yep it was the dream, but pretty sure that dream came reality after he used that name and got the big shot mad and to retaliate and kill his wife's new man :)
shareMaybe it was more ambiguous than I thought, but from where I was sitting he woke up on the beach after dreaming the guy got shot and his wife was screaming.
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did Mel Gibson mention anything about the person that shot him in the dreams. Because on the last scene the guy that got him killed was the one from the ship company, and also he had injuries (when he blew up the office). Where as he mentioned that he has the same dream over and over, so he wouldn't of had them injuries in the dreams he usually has, making me think that it actually happened and he got his ex wifes boyfriend killed.
by the way, absolutely amazing film, and I am sick of people saying otherwise just because they don't like Mel Gibson.
It seemed apparent to me, given that Gibson had earlier mentioned a dream he keeps having involving his ex's new guy answering the door with milk dripping down his chin only to get shot, that he was merely invisioning the same thing but now with somebody in particular doing the killing.
The way the scene was filmed (it was rather comedically done, why would the boss be there at a murder?) and the way it ended with Gibson seemingly awaking from a dream/day dream, coupled with the fact it played out just as he imagined, made it appear to me as though it was just his ongoing daydream.
At the very least it was ambiguous, that scene didn't feel in keeping with the rest of the film.
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Thanks,
You filled in a few holes in my own theory.
I missed where he mentioned his ex-wife's BF's name... so I wondered "why did he set that poor guy up?"
I didn't think it was supposed to be a dream when I viewed the film. I noticed that when Barnes opened the door to the hitmen, that he does bear a resemblence to Mel's character, especially from a distance as he is seen by Kaufman. Mel and JJ Perry, the actor playing Barnes, both have dark hair, prominent noses and high forehead/receding hairlines. I can easily see Kaufman being mistaken in his identification of him as the grenade thrower.
And I took his waking up on the beach with a smile on his face as either him having the dream once again, except knowing that this time it could be reality, having given Barnes' name to Kaufman, or maybe even some sort of "psychic" acknowledgement at the time of Barnes being shot that he made his dream about Barnes come true.
In either case, dream or not, I think the scene was added to the movie as a bit of comedy and Mel seeing the "loose ends" getting tied up. It works in that way whether dream or reality.
Sgu sucked.
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