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The only problem is the same guy (Bullet) shot the black guy and the blonde girl in the head, just seconds before.
I think the reason is more simple than Ann just "sensing" that the guy is evil:
Ann resents how Uncle Charly considers her like a baby. Though she reads two novels a week, considers herself an intellectual and wants to marry a librarian, Uncle Charlie gives her an elephant plushy as a gift, tries to lure her into playing with dad's newspaper and build a house with it, or offers her to read the funnies.
She rebukes him several times, but he keeps treating her like a baby.
And that's a very sufficient reason for a kid to dislike someone ;)
I also wondered that. Would be perfect though!
"to dismiss imaginary things is simply to be rational, logical, and intelligent"
In the 17th century, when Galilei asserted the Earth was round and revolved around the sun, it was considered by most to be an imaginary thing. Dismissing it was far from being rational, logical, nor intelligent.
I don't personnally believe in ghosts, nor do I believe the contrary as long as I don't have the proof of either.
And to get back to the subject, Doris Bither doesn't seem to be quite reliable enough to be considered as proof.
Exactly. I read it like:
"Can you make a baby? Oh, you can't. Ok, I'll make one for you then..." and then goes with the lady.
The death as a full sized baby would not have been dumb, that would have been more logical, as compared to his birth.
And probably, that would also have been visually ridiculous. Now that you say it, I kind of regret they didn't do it. At least, it would have been a surprise.
Anyway, this thread made my day!
This prosecutor has a long history of weird and unproven theories, just check his wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuliano_Mignini
the two other cases that are mentioned there are pure gold. (especially the Narducci case)
I just don't want to be around whenever there's a mischief and he's in charge, because litterally anyone can be prosecuted by this guy...
It is not really detailed. in the comics, the gender key is used mostly by Dodge and only on himself.
and the "ethnical" key, that looks like a mirror, is used once by Bode and it looks like he turned both himself and his sister into black people at the same time.
Hi Exatera, first thing to know, the series took large liberties with the comic books.
attention spoilers!!!
1) the music box: yes, seems like the writers conveniently forgot about it. At that point, it is very far from the comics story line, since that key was most of the time with Dodge.
2) there is no identity key in the comics, but a gender key that allows to change your gender. And another one that allows to change your race.
3) in the comic books they don't remember the keys and Ellie is completely manipulated by Dodge with the head key. She doesn't have as much free will as in the series.
4) the echo does not get anything out of killing people. this sequence just shows how evil she is.
5) Yeah, that was completely inconsistent with the character and especially with his profession.
In the end I liked how they worked on the head key. In the comics you can see directly into anyone's head. That looks great on drawings but would have been impossible to figure on screen.
And I hated how the characters completely forgot to wonder about the keys in Dodge's possession when she is stunned and did not try to retrieve them. That was really lazy writing...
I'm not really talking about the presence of alcohol, I'm talking about this unique bottle of J&B that is in every room of the movie.
And I'm kind of familiar with movies of the 70's. If you stick to italian giallo and poliziottesco, this is not something you see in movies by Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, Umberto Lenzi, Mario Bava, etc...
At that point, it seems to me it's a Sergio Martino thing, more than a 70s thing.
I was just wondering if it was an awkward product placement or some slack set design.
I would think basic product placement...
Maybe, I noticed something similar with "Il tuo vizio è una stanza chiusa e solo io ne ho la chiave" (Your vice is a locked room...)
In this movie it was the same three bottles that went from one place to another. Less conspicuous than one, though.
Maybe Sergio Martino just used to work with some lazy set designer
I thought the timing was tight for a rip off too. Still, the similarities are uncanny...
To think this was the worst movie ever one must not have seen many...
No, the librarian also thanks him even if he's not granted a quick death. Instead he thanks him several times when Jay hits him with a hammer...
Thank you!
I think it's much funnier if they're not gay.
They seem to have a certain standard of living (the nice tuxedos when they get down to eat at the hotel, the fact that they don't travel in the low-cost wagon like Gilbert...)
But because the train is uphold, the hotel is overbooked and not only do they have to share the same room, they also have to share the same small bed, and finally the same pyjamas. Which certainly seems to qualify as a huge downgrade for them.
But their composure makes them tolerate this promiscuity as long as they can talk about cricket.
What's with his sunburn, though? He's quite red and a bit shiny at the beginning of the movie...
I felt exactly the same, but not so much about how characters should have reacted to the multiple disappearances, but rather how they related to each other.
1 - The four guys never felt like real buddies. I can't imagine those guys going on a trip together in Europe seeing how they don't seem to know each other, or care about the others.
2 - Danny and Christian never felt like a couple. I know that's kind of the point, but even with people who broke up, you can still feel a bond, what used to be a certain complicity between two people, and that's not the case here. All the more surprising when she tells everyone that they're together for four years. You could absolutely not tell.
3 - So Danny and Christian are together for four years, he has buddies at the university. They go to at least one party together. And still, when she gets to the appartment before going to Sweden, they seem to discover each other (the "what are you studying?" question, that is like the first question that pops up when you meet someone at the university)
4 - Christian never sounds like a future PhD, nor even an aspiring one.
5 - Mark is supposed to be the jerk of the group, ok, but he could have at least one intelligent or redeeming line from time to time that would have explained why they're friends with him.
there's a lot of other details in the characters that felt out of place, and it's too bad, because still I never felt bored during the film.
Agreed, and the swans also made me think of the girls in their pristine white dress during the picnic.
the conclusion can be the same for them: a week in the bush; they'd be dead by now.
Mrs Appleyard lied to Mlle de Poitiers because she's trying to save face in her universe of hieratic dignity. But as her world crumbles piece by piece (2 girls missing, 4 leaving the school, one teacher missing, another one who resigned, and one girl who committed suicide) she's getting cornered and her camouflage is less and less believable. Hence her madness then probable suicide.