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Why didn't anyone on the ground notice anything? ( contains spoilers)

posted 8 years ago by ftran999
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So the girlfriend and bearded guy are staring up at the towers with big binoculars and it doesn't arouse the curiosity of passersby? Think about it. How many times have you been walking down the street and noticed someone staring up a something. Isn't it only natural that you just have to see what it is there staring at? Also the scene were he loses his shirt and she screams "Oh my God, he's falling" why didn't that attract attention. Even when he started to walk across the wire she actually had to grab the attention of a passerby to point it out.

[–] anthonysbarat 8 years ago

They were really tall buildings...I mean really freaking tall! Standing at the base and looking up, or being up top in the observation level, seeing something the size of a person was difficult. Cars look like tiny ants...people like dots...unless somebody pointed the 'walker' out I doubt he'd be easily noticable. We're talking a good 4 1/2 football fields of distance. Also, you'd often see people standing around staring up at the towers...most New Yorkers are used to skyscrapers and barely even look up...LoL...so a few people standing about looking up wouldn't create a crowd until people knew the situation.

[–] paleolith 8 years ago

Or more simply ... it's New York City.

[–] titanman083 8 years ago

It's night and people that live in NYC don't really look up at the buildings, tourists look up.