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Intro Scene

posted 13 years ago by texas_phil
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Was it just me or did the introductory scene have absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the film? It made it seem as though the film was thematically congruent with the franchise and then just dropped it completely.

[–] Jerv23325-1 13 years ago

Were you not paying attention or something?

The young man in the opening was the preacher,who clearly states that if he hadn't been away during the war he'd have been slaughtered during the events of the first film/short story. When he was stabbed and fell out the window, he survived.

[–] dooovall 13 years ago

Preacher stated that he was from Gatlin. The opening scene took place 20 miles outside of Gatlin. The guy in the opening was not Preacher and did not survive.

[–] dooovall 13 years ago

Furthermore, the opening scene of Genesis took place in the 1970s. The slaughter in Gatlin in the first film took place in the early 1980s. The opening of this film suggests that Gatlin was not the first community affected by He Who Walks Behind the Rows.

[–] soco-81 13 years ago

So if the preacher wasn't the guy from the opening then what does that scene have to do with anything?

It's a sad thing that your adventures have ended here

[–] TrippingABlindMan 13 years ago

As Jerv23325-1 stated, The Preacher very clearly states that he was the young soldier in the opening scene of the movie... that is him... it's in the dialogue, how did you miss this? It's practically spelled out for you.

I'm not trying to be insulting BTW, it's just... there! In the dialogue! lol.

[–] jjt184 13 years ago

Not to mention that the soldier is credited as "Young Cole", and Helen introduces Preacher as her "husband Cole". Clearly the same character.

[–] IamBustakap 10 years ago

Maybe it was *supposed* to be Cole, I guess we can go with that, it doesn't make a lot of *sense*, but somehow it's him. Okay, so why/how did he survive? The children killed all the other adults who lived in the town or even happened to just wander on in, why would they just let this one guy live. Furthermore, where did all these children go to after all that? Where the hell did Cole get off to in the meantime between then and the events of the film? And why was this movie so boring and poorly written? Why did none of it really make any sense? Why where the CotC powers so different for this particular child of the corn? Where did all those other women and children come from, at the end? Why did the filmmakers mistake nonsensical for ambiguous? What the hell was going on with that whole thing, there, that happened? Most importantly, why was this movie so boring and poorly written?

[–] jadmerie17 9 years ago

The young Soldier in the begining was Cole or "preacher". Still Maybe when he was talking about himself being in the war overseas and saying his friends and family were all killed it would have been a good time to show a flash back of how he escaped.